Re: [LAU] Rosegarden 15.10

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:47:42 -0500 (CDT)
Brent Busby <brent@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Will Godfrey wrote:
>
> > Just seen this and thought it might be of interest.
> >
> >
> > The Rosegarden team is pleased to announce the release of version 15.10
> > of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor
> > for Linux. One tester comments, "You'll be pleased to know that this
> > puts Rosegarden ahead of all the other sequencers I've tried for all CCs
> > including bank changes, program changes and NRPNs."
> >
> > http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
> >
> > With this major bugfix release, Ted Felix untangled a very old problem
> > with instrument parameters that stumped quite a few developers over the
> > years. Tito Latini joined the project briefly, and went on a bit of a
> > rampage, fixing bug after bug. Yves got in on the effort, and
> > contributed several important fixes. Even Michael wrote a little code
> > here and there.
> >
> > This is one of the best releases we've turned out in years, and we
> > strongly encourage everyone to upgrade immediately!
> >
> [...]
>
> The reason I've never been a Rosegarden user is because I've never found
> anywhere in the program where you can do generic (non-GM) Midi. I do
> mostly very electronic stuff where the idea of banks and presets that
> have to be assigned to a particular instrument sound with a well known
> instrument name isn't very useful to the kinds of patches and samples
> I'd use. But there doesn't seem to be anywhere in Rosegarden where you
> can just do regular ad hoc this-bank/program-is-whatever-I-say-it-is
> style Midi.

In the track playback parameters change the device from 'General MIDI device'
to (say) 'Synth Plugin'.

I actually have entries in 'Manage MIDI Devices' called, 'Yoshimi', 'Qsynth',
'Hydrogen' etc.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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