System requirements: Windows 7 or higher
Rosegarden is designed to be easy to use, attractive, and familiar. If you've some experience with other sequencer applications for other platforms, you should find it easy enough to get up and running with: even if you haven't, it's not hard.
Rosegarden gives you all the editing tools you need to get your ideas down as easily as possible. Start with a track-based overview, in which you just drag with the mouse to create "segments" and double-click to edit them, or right-click for more options.
All of the different editing windows – the matrix editor, notation editor and event editor – have the same common interface, in which you just sweep to select and drag to move, stretch and squash and so on. You can enter notes from a MIDI keyboard – whether by recording in real-time or step-by-step – or by "playing" the PC keyboard to enter intervals relative to the active key signature, or you can simply draw them with the mouse.
You get unlimited undo and redo everywhere, and the standard editing tools are clear and consistent to use.
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The pan and zoom interface found at the bottom of the matrix and notation editors provides unlimited axis-independent zoom and rapid navigation. This interface also facilitates working with more than one segment in the same editor, and both editors are capable of editing an unlimited number of segments at the same time.
And liberal use of tooltips, keyboard shortcuts and an online, wiki-based help system make the whole thing even more straightforward.
Rosegarden's studio concept stores all the information you need about your MIDI network – what devices you have, what they're plugged in to, what banks, programs and controllers they support.
Setting up your studio is easy using our all new device manager to hook things up. Configurations for over 100 well-known MIDI synths are included, or you can enter the details of your own MIDI devices and export the results into a Rosegarden device file to share with other users.
Set up your studio once, and then you can refer to your MIDI devices and their properties by name. For example, right-click on a track label to assign a track to a MIDI device...
... then you can set programs and control changes on that device using the right names and with different colours for the various controllers.
Rosegarden's matrix and notation editors also include rulers for graphically editing control changes, as well as for velocity and pitch bend.
Rosegarden includes a powerful notation editor – essential if score is your preferred way to compose, or just to give you a different view on your work.
You can edit notation at the same time as any of the other standard editing windows, and Rosegarden unobtrusively keeps everything up-to-date for you.
Unlike other MIDI sequencers, Rosegarden really knows about notation, storing details of the musical structure and presentation far in excess of what can be described in MIDI. And Rosegarden can even tidy up recorded notation using a powerful heuristic notation quantizer, without losing the original performance timings.
You can prepare printed scores, editing and previewing in a clear multi-page layout...
... and then print directly, using LilyPond to generate high-quality typeset output:
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Rosegarden uses the DSSI architecture for synth plugins, a public standard which permits each plugin to be controlled from its own custom GUI as well as Rosegarden's built-in plugin interface.
And as well as plugins, Rosegarden can communicate with any number of standalone soft synths for Linux using the ALSA sequencer MIDI protocol.
