Rosegarden Wiki

This is the Wiki for user and developer documentation about the Rosegarden audio and MIDI sequencer and notation editor.

If you wish to add any new documentation or update anything in here, please create an account and get editing! (New user registrations are currently disabled due to spam. Please contact us on the dev mailing list to request access.)

Note that developer pages are in the “dev:” namespace, formal project documentation is in the “doc:” namespace, and pages for translators are in the “translator:” namespace. General user pages do not have any particular namespace; call them whatever you like.

• Release notes for 22.12.1
• Release notes for 22.12
• Release notes for 22.06
• Release notes for 21.12
• 21.12 Testing Notes
• Release notes for 21.06.1
• Release notes for 21.06
• 21.06 Testing Notes
• Release notes for 20.12
• 20.12 Testing Notes
• Release notes for 20.06
• Release notes for 19.12
• Release notes for 19.06
• Release notes for 18.12
• Release notes for 18.06
• Release notes for 17.12
• Release notes for 17.04
• Release Notes Archive

Some of this might be a bit outdated. Contact us on the mailing list if you'd like to help work on the documentation.

• Rosegarden Tutorial Part 1 (video on youtube) August 7, 2018
• The Rosegarden Manual (incomplete)
• Building Rosegarden from Source (bug reports are most useful against the development version)
• Notation Tips and Tricks (from 13.10)
• Using Thru Routing (from 16.02)
• Guitar MIDI Controller to Notation (from 22.12)
• The New Rosegarden Companion (very old)
• HTML Tutorials (newer, but many are old)
• Documentation Around the Web
• Users Helping Users (before 10.02)
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Low-latency Kernels (probably obsolete)
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Pitch Tracker academic paper describing the pitch tracker
• Connecting Rosegarden to GrandOrgue from April 2020

• El manual de Rosegarden

• Le Manuel de Rosegarden

• Handbok Rosegarden

• Rosegarden manual (partial)
• keyboard_shortcuts_ja (partial)

• Richard Bown's talk at FOSDEM '23
• Featured articles on Rosegarden
• Projects using Rosegarden
• complete Yamaha RM50 rgd device definition file

• How to Add or Update a Translation

• Rosegarden Test Plans

Rosegarden Device File (.rgd) Developer's Guide

• Building Rosegarden from Source
  • Using git
  • Get Dependencies
• Using the Eclipse IDE to work on Rosegarden

• Welcome For New Developers
• Coding Style
• File Format Version
• Rosegarden Coding Style: Qt Layouts
• QSettings Config Groups
• Unit Testing
• Blurb about dialog buttons rescued from an otherwise obsolete set of pages
• Dealing with Latencies
• More Development Notes
• svn To git Transition
• Release Process

• Linked Segments Branch
• Notation Cleanup Branch
• TrackButtons Notification Project
• Percussion Notation

• Summer Code – suggestions for pieces of work that new developers might like to get started with
• Draft for better MIDI-Controler support
• Future Plans

• License structure: Currently GPL2+ and 1 Artistic license.
• Rosegarden on OpenHub
  • Contributors
  • World map of registered users and developers
  • Commits

• Wiki Syntax - DokuWiki
• Rosegarden Logo
• Donations

• Code Consistency
• Rosegarden 1.7.3 rpm for Mandriva Linux 2008.1
• complete Korg 05R/W rgd device definition file - This is already shipped with rg, although the shipped version is slightly different in terms of the “ipbposition” of some of the controllers. Otherwise they are identical. This link can be archived someplace for reference off the front page.