Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > Rui Nuno Capela wrote: >> Matthew Smith wrote: >>> Just out of interest, what - if any - are the pros and cons of >>> Rosegarden versus Qtractor? For myself, as an unsophisticated user, is >>> Qtractor (as it appears) all I'll ever need? >> major qtractor cons;) >> >> - no tempo/key-signature map >> - no score/notation editor >> - no automation >> - no plugin latency/delay compensation >> >> however these are all features that will be addressed in the future >> (except score/notation; that won't happen sorry:) > > Rosegarden's notation view is one feature of this program that I could not > give up. I have been also a Cakewalk/Sonar user under windows for a long > time, using it's staff view a lot. > > In both programs I don't use the notation view as a score desktop publishing > engine, because a real score editor needs many features that these programs > lack. But it may be a very nice representation of MIDI tracks, if you record > the MIDI tracks with a metronome, or create it from scratch. It is not that I > dislike the piano-roll representations, but I feel much more comfortable with > the score for visual inspection of the music. I can locate very quickly where > I've made a mistake without having to press the play button. That's because > I'm very used to scores, of course. I use Rosegarden. The piano-roll presentation seems like the most useless way to work with music that I can imagine. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
