Hello, RG gurus! :) > > A big barrier to a Windows port of Rosegarden is the dependency on ALSA. > There is also the issue of KDE not running natively on Windows, > although there is renewed interest in making that happen > following the GPL licensing of Qt4 on Windows. > I asked in February whether there was any interest in helping out on > around one-person-month of work in porting the audio and MIDI code to use > PortMusic http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~music/portmusic/ > the popular cross-platform music API, but nobody on rg-devel followed up > https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10772975
Problem is not graphics API, problem is sound API. MIDI is the beast you can easily port, but sound tracks is a real pain. For instance, portaudio can not give resonable results even on Linux. > Having said that, it seems from the regular enquiries I get about > Rosegarden during discussions of composition software that there are quite > a few potential users who would be interested in having a native Windows > port. Windooze guys are quite satisfied with cracked CakeWalk and family. > > William IMHO porting RG to windows is wasting of time. Huge problem of Win* is unpredictable delays and big latency. Main advantage of Linux+ALSA+Jack is possibility of realtime sound processing. I use RG from cvs about year and it performs allmost well with sound tracks. LADPSA processing gives a lot of possibilities for real-time music performing with couple of real instruments and RG. But I must say that RG in present condition has few annoying bugs with sound track management mentioned here a week ago and it lacks of realtime control of sound processing by MIDI commands. For instance imagine situation: I use RG as bass and drums plus sound processor for guitar. I want to program RG to listen my MIDI control device to switch effects, play some additional segment, play some just recorded loop, etc. Bunch of features needed for such use of RG, but no one windooze program with 250-500 ms latency can do this! Nice soundtrack editor would be great feature for RG too for real music recording purposes. Any external editor drives me crazy when I edit soundtrack. RG is great as composition, recording and PERFORMING software and will be much better with more efforts in sound recording/processing. -- WBR, Alex Lukin, RIPE NIC HDL: LEHA1-RIPE ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
