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ribbon Introduction
+++ doc:manual-en [2014/08/03 12:44]
tedfelix [MIDI Instrument Parameters] Update to explain current UI
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 We're moving to the wiki!
-As of Thorn, the Rosegarden Handbook will be maintained here on the wiki, and the help system will require internet access. All the broken help menus and help buttons will refer here.
+As of Thorn, the Rosegarden Handbook will be maintained here on the wiki, and the help system will require Internet access. All the broken help menus and help buttons will refer here.
 Depending on how painful this whole conversion and editing process is, the rest of Rosegarden's documentation may follow suit.  This would be a painful and arduous process if undertaken, but it might well be worth the pain in the long run.  I'd like to move the entire text of Rosegarden Companion here, along with all the tutorials.  This would require replacing hundreds of images, but all of the images are quite out of date anyway, and could do with freshening up.  We'll do the Handbook first, which has the shortest text and the highest text:image ratio, and see how it follows from there.
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 Rosegarden is a MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor whose purpose is to serve as the sequencer of choice for users who prefer to work with music notation. Rosegarden allows you to record, arrange, and compose music, in the shape of traditional score or MIDI data, or of audio files either imported or recorded from a microphone, guitar or whatever audio source you care to specify. You can use Rosegarden to write, edit, and organise music to create a composition, which you can then synthesise, add effects to, and mix down for burning to CD or distribution on the web. Rosegarden also contains well-rounded notation editing support for high quality printed output via [[http://lilypond.org|LilyPond]].
-Rosegardenは、商用ソフトウェアを使用していた経験者にとって、見栄えと動作が親しみやすいように設計され、また、一般的に、新しいユーザにとって、アクセスしやすく、親しみやすいようになっています。
+Rosegarden is designed to look and act in a manner familiar to experienced users coming from the commercial software world, while also being accessible and friendly to users new to music software generally.
-Rosegardenは三つの異なった、表示方法、編集方法とMIDIイベントの入力方法を提供し、それらにはMIDIシーケンサの音符機能中に通常は提供されていないような、たくさんの高度な機能を提供する、強力な譜面エディタを含んでいます。これらの3つのエディタの配下で、Rosergardenは、音楽の領域に対して、自由度のあるレイヤベースのイメージ編集プログラムと同等のようなものを提供するキャンバス上で、MIDIとオーディオデータのブロックを調整するための、セグメントベースの機能を提供します。
+Rosegarden provides three distinct ways of viewing, editing, and entering MIDI events, including a powerful notation editor that provides many advanced features not typically found in the notation facility of MIDI sequencers. Underneath these three editors, Rosegarden provides a segment-based mechanism for arranging blocks of MIDI and audio data on a canvas that brings something akin to the flexibility of a layer-based image editing program to the realm of music.
-Rosegardenは[[http://qt.nokia.com|Qt]] --クロスプラットフォームアプリケーションとユーザインタフェースフレームワークを使って構築されています。また、これは、MIDIサポートのためにALSAを、オーディオサポートのためにJACKを使っていますので、現時点でRosergardenはLinux上でのみ動作しますが、将来的にはこれは改善される予定で、OS-Xが最有力候補ですが、Windowsへの移植は最も難しいでしょう。
+Rosegarden is built using [[http://qt-project.org/|Qt]] -- A cross-platform application and UI framework.  It uses ALSA to provide MIDI support, and JACK for audio, both of which limit Rosegarden to Linux for the time being, but that should hopefully change in the future, with OS-X being the next most accessible platform, and Windows the most difficult to reach.
 ==== About this Manual ====
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 {{doc:rg-trackbutton-labels.png|Rosegarden's Track buttons showing track labels}}
-The button area to the left of the segment canvas shows you the track number, mute and record status, and the label of the track. You can mute or unmute a track by clicking on the blue LED-style button, and select a particular track as a record target by clicking on the red one. To change the track label, double-click on it.
+The button area to the left of the segment canvas shows you the track number, mute and record status, and the label of the track. You can mute or unmute a track by clicking on the blue LED-style button, and select a particular track as a record target by clicking on the yellow one. To change the track label, double-click on it.
 {{doc:rg-trackbutton-instruments.png|Rosegarden's Track buttons showing instrument assignments}}
-Track labels are only shown if the **Settings → Show Track Labels** menu option is enabled. Otherwise, as in this picture, the instrument assignments for the tracks are shown instead
+Track labels are only shown if the **View → Show Track Labels** menu option is enabled. Otherwise, as in this picture, the instrument assignments for the tracks are shown instead
 ===== Tracks and instruments =====
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 ===== Overview =====
-{{http://rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/rg-transport.png|Rosegarden's Transport window}}
+{{doc:rg-transport.png|Rosegarden's Transport window}}
-If the transport isn't visible, you can activate it with **Settings → Show Transport**.
+If the transport isn't visible, you can activate it with **View → Show Transport**.
 The transport shows the time reached by the playback pointer, in seconds by default.
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 Switches repeat on or off for the selected segments. A repeating segment will repeat until the start of the following segment on the same track, or until the end of the composition if there is no following segment.
-The repeated parts of a repeating segment are shown on the main canvas in a fainter colour than the original segment. You can turn them into real editable copies of the original segment either by using Segments → Turn Repeats into Copies, or simply by double-clicking on the individual repeating blocks.
+The repeated parts of a repeating segment are shown on the main canvas in a fainter colour than the original segment. You can turn them into real editable copies of the original segment either by using **Segments → Turn Repeats into Copies**, or simply by double-clicking on the individual repeating blocks.
 **Quantize**
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 <del>You can also manage and rename colours using Composition → Edit Document Properties... and choose the Colour page on the document properties dialog. The modified colour palette will be saved with the composition in the Rosegarden file.</del> FIXME: I don't think is relevant anymore. I couldn't find this where it said it was. Have we got rid of this? SOM
 ===== The Instrument Parameter Box =====
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 At the top, this box shows the name of the instrument and the connection that its device is using.
-Below that, you can see and edit the MIDI channel number and the [[/doc:bankeditordialog-en|bank and program]] settings that should be sent to the instrument at the start of playback including a percussion toggle that controls whether only percussion programs should be offered in these settings.
+Below that, you can see and edit the [[/doc:bankeditordialog-en|bank and program]] settings that should be sent to the instrument at the start of playback including a percussion toggle that controls whether only percussion programs should be offered in these settings.
+The Channel setting allows you to select either "Fixed" channel assignment, where the channel will be assigned sequentially for each track, or "Auto" channel assignment, where channels will be assigned on an as-needed basis.  "Auto" channel assignment can be helpful for compositions that require more than 15 instruments, but never use more than 15 at a single time.
+The "Receive external" toggle allows for easier selection of a bank/program via a MIDI device.  The banks and programs tend to be rather arbitrarily organized in the bank and program dropdowns.  With the "Receive external" toggle, you can use your keyboard or other MIDI device to select the bank/program.
 Finally this box shows you the controllers available for this device (those for a General MIDI device are shown above). Any settings you make here will be sent to this instrument's channel at the start of playback.