[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden4-0.9 released

bownie_AT_bownie.com

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o Bank Editor dialog reworked - many fixes and new apply/reset methodology.
  Device "librarians" - increased number of pre-supported patchsets.
o Split-by-pitch with ranging split point
o Tip of the Day
o "Revert file" option
o Studio -> Save Current Document as Default Studio (autoload.rg)
o Tracks toolbar
o Detailed sequencer status information available in Configure dialog
o Document autosaving and recovery
o More complete Right Mouse Button menu in tracks canvas
o Document loading rework
o Better progress reporting for long operations
o Segment labelling
o Floating value help when moving rotaries/sliders
o Tracks can be moved up and down in the Composition
o Track Deletion
o Better handling of the sequencer process
Notation editor
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o Significant improvements in rendering and editing notation from
  performance MIDI data
o Ability to quantize for notation without changing performance
o Performance interpretation of dynamics and accent stresses
o Corrected display of all accidentals in (or against) every key
o Marks and Group toolbars
Documentation
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o Lots of translations - Russian, Spanish, French, German
o Tutorial thanks to Michael McIntyre (including PDF):
  http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
Studio
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o Devices and Instruments reworked - connection based Device management -
  new Instrument selection menus
o Dynamic ALSA client detection - create new available connections
o Selection of ALSA recording device
o Import of Banks/Programs from Rosegarden Device files (.rgd) and
  from standard Soundfont files
o Library of premapped MIDI devices in .rgd files
Synchronisation
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o Basic support for MIDI Clock
o Initial work on MTC/MMC infrastructure
o Infrastructure for JACK transport compliance
Audio
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o Improved performance
o new Audio Fader widgets - panning, volume, stereo/mono
o Flexible JACK input port configuration - create as many
  JACK input ports as you require and connect them to
  audio faders.
o Stereo audio recording and monitoring (WAVs)
o Improved LADSPA plugin support - bypass, restore works,
  value tips, multiple plugins now working per Instrument
o Countdown limit for audio recording time (to protect disk space)
  including check for available disk space on current record path
o NOTE: there are still some issues with audio latency and efficiency
  and syncing with MIDI.  You may need to work with the latency values
  in Settings->Configure Rosegarden->Latency->JACK Latency/MIDI Latency
Lilypond export
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o Corrected handling of all accidentals in (or against) every key
o Corrected severe problems with slurs between chords
o Corrected most problems with hairpins
o Corrected most problems with tuplets
o Export of metadata tags (Edit -> Document Properties) that correspond to
  Lilypond headers into the \header block
o Upped version = string to 1.6.0 (support for 1.8 is on the agenda for
  the 1.0 release)
o Export of text marks (accents, tenuto, etc.)
o Export of text events (directions, tempo indications, etc.)
o Export of slashes (tremolo indications)
o Extraction of lyrics for export into \lyric blocks
o Export of mid-composition time signature changes
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