Re: [LAU] Musical Score Editors - some advice for beginners

From: Brett McCoy <idragosani@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 20:32:45 EEST

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Chris Cannam
<cannam@email-addr-hidden-day-breakfast.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Brett McCoy <idragosani@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, David Baron <d_baron@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> rosegarden   also does scoring. I found it nearly impossible to use for this.
>>> It is one of the most complete DAW programs in linux but is now dated, stuck
>>> with KDE3, could not run on KDE4. Being converted to QT4?
>>
>> Yep, port to KDE4 (known as Thorn) is in the works.
>
> In fact it's a port to Qt4, with no KDE dependencies at all.

Oh, ok, I always get mixed on that point :-)

> You can get the code from the current Rosegarden Subversion trunk.
> It's in a state which is worth messing with, but not yet worth
> reporting bugs in -- there are still too many known omissions, and you
> can't quite get real projects done with it yet.
>
> The port is a big effort; it's taken a handful of part-time developers
> nearly 18 months and over two thousand Subversion commits so far.
> Most of the work is done, but it's a tiring business.  It looks a bit
> different from the KDE3 version, but don't expect much in the way of
> new features; hopefully there should be some improvements to excuse
> all that work, but the first goal is just to get most of the existing
> features working.

I will note there are some nice enhancements to the notation GUI.

-- Brett
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