Hmmm, just recorded a track in Rosegarden 1.70 using vkeybd. It recorded
durations just fine, complete with rests. Don't have RG10.x here to
checked but I'd expect it to work the same way.
Small, inexpensive (US$49) MIDI keyboards are around:
http://www.jr.com/korg/pe/KRG_NANOKEYB/
Peter Knaggs wrote:
Hi Beh,
I recently started learning Rosegarden myself, and I found that
using the "Notation Editor": starting with a new project, middle-click
and drag to create a "segment" of the desired length (e.g. a few bars
if your song is short, or more if it's long) then click on the new (yellowish)
segment and press "n" (lowercase N, shortcut for the notation editor, or
you can right click and say "open in Notation Editor"). There, you'll see on
the left-hand-side of the page you can choose the duration of your note.
Then you select the "pencil" tool and click it somewhere to "record" the note.
Rosegarden will automatically show the "rests" remaining in the bar. I'm not
sure how to insert additional rests in between notes, as I haven't needed to
do that sort of thing yet.
If you're intending to record "live" input from a computer keyboard, I don't
think that's possible. The normal way MIDI note duration is provided is by
a MIDI controller keyboard performing a timing operation, then encoding
that info into the midi stream along with the note pitch and velocity info.
A computer keyboard doesn't have hardware to determine the timing and velocity
of your key pressed. I guess perhaps somebody somewhere might have written
a MIDI simulator "driver" for ordinary computer keyboards, but I'm not aware
of one for linux. It would be fun though.
Still, if you can get a real MIDI keyboard, it'll be preferable. You don't need
anything expensive, e.g. I'm using an old Kurzweil MIDIboard built back in
1987 and it still works, pretty cheap.
Cheers,
Peter.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:50 AM, beh estelah <behestelah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello
I'm trying to learn Rosegarden.
I do not have an external midi keyboard.
When I use the computer keyboard to play music, Rosegarden does register the
notes, however it does not register the duration of notes and the rests.
Is there any way to register the duration of notes and rests?
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David
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