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ROSEGARDEN 09.X (to be) RELEASED
IMPORTANT: THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED YET
This page is only a working area for making notes about what is being done for the 09.x release, so that we don't forget anything when the code is finally ready to be released – which will not be for some time yet.
The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 09.x of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. This is version 9x of the modern 21st century Rosegarden (formerly known as Rosegarden-4) and should not be confused with the old, obsolete X11 Rosegarden (formerly known as Rosegarden).
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
With this release, Rosegarden has become a modern Qt4 application that no longer uses the KDE libraries, which we hope will facilitate future maintenance. The primary focus of this release has been the effort to port from Qt3 and KDE3 to Qt4, which was a very difficult, time-consuming job that involved a great deal of rewriting. There should be as little difference as possible between this version and 1.7.3, and this is one release where no news is good news. We will be able to take full advantage of Qt4 in future releases to offer a number of planned improvements.
The Porting Team
We'd like to give special thanks to the following members and contributors, some old, some new, for their outstanding work on the long and difficult port. These brave few are the authors of a new chapter in our history.
Chris Cannam
Michael McIntyre
Julie Swango
Emanuel Rumpf
Yves Guillemot
Chris “CJ” Fryer
Heikki Junes
Shelagh Manton
Thanks To
Luis Garrido
David Willis
New Features
Ported to Qt4
Removed all ties to KDE for a lower dependency footprint
Stunning new look that is equally at home on KDE, GNOME, or any other Linux desktop
Most application resources are now bundled inside the application itself, reducing its installation footprint, and allowing you to run different versions (eg. a stable production version and a release candidate) in parallel without data file version conflicts
You can finally run more than one copy of Rosegarden at the same time!
Completely new icons for the notation editor, and anywhere else we could benefit from true antialiasing as opposed to simple transparency
All new MIDI device manager
New “Save As Template” option saves files with a special new .rgt extension, which discourages you from overwriting your template for a string quartet with your newest composition for string quartet. (As time goes on, we will be putting together a collection of useful templates in much the same way as we have been accumulating MIDI device library files over the years.)
(this is minor stuff)
Improved flashing metronome mode and more realistic looking LEDs for the transport
Markers now have a “Comment” instead of a “Description” to make it more clear which bit of text is going to show up on the marker ruler, and be exported to LilyPond
The simple event editor now handles notation-quantized notes more intelligently
Improved controller manager dialog now opens the editor automatically after creating a new controller
Significant Bug Fixes
Exporting project files to paths that have spaces no longer fails
Faders can now be moved in both directions with the mouse scroll wheel
Corrected LilyPond export of double octave clefs
Corrected rendering problem when moving expanded-height tracks
Minor Bug Fixes
Controller editor dialog now keeps track of the color index properly
Newly created knobs of color “default” now display the correct color, rather than black
Thanks to
Active translators for this release:
Heikki Junes
D. Michael McIntyre
Other people who contributed to Rosegarden development:
People who contributed device files to the Rosegarden Library
Greg Lyons
Georg Balzer
Theo Smit