On 05/11/11 05:48, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > ====== ROSEGARDEN 11.11, codename "Edelweiss" RELEASED ======
Thank you all! Eager to try it out. Lorenzo. > > The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 11.11 of > Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. > A long time in the making, this release combines a number of bug fixes with > two major sub-projects that happened to come together right at the same time, > and several completely new features as well. It is probably our most > substantial offering since the landmark 10.02. > > http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ > > Ian Gardner and Yves Guillemot have worked together for nearly a year to > invent, implement, and refine the new concept of linked segments, which allow > you to maintain a master performance in one segment while copying it to other > places, or even other tracks. > > When manipulating segments in the main window, Ctrl+Alt+drag creates a linked > segment from an existing one, and there is a new "Turn Links into Copies" > entry on the Segment menu. Repeated segments may be displayed in the notation > editor (in gray), and depending on the state of the configuration option, the > original segment may or may not be modified in notation from its repeating > copies. Redundant clefs and keys may be hidden automatically, within one > segment or a chain of consecutive segments. This new work also improves > Rosegarden's long-standing problems with anacrusis in notation. > > Tom Breton added several new features, and carried out a number of internal > optimizations. "Composition -> Fit Existing Beats to Beat Segment" takes a > beat track and adjusts tempo to put real time and beats exactly on the given > notes. "Segment -> Expand Block Chord Segments by Figuration" lets you > define > a bar of figuration and expand it for every block chord in a segment. > Finally, "Edit -> Clear Range of Tempos" allows you to remove all tempo > changes falling within a defined range. > > Additionally, Daren Beattie, Alvar Udras, and D. Michael McIntyre formed a > miniature version of the original porting team. The 10.02 release saw > Rosegarden transformed from a KDE 3 application into a Qt 4 application, but > much work remained to be done to remove all lingering remnants of the old > code. With this release, Rosegarden improves its chances of long-term > survival by eliminating its reliance on the Qt 3 support layer. With these > ties to the past removed at last, it should be much less involved when the > future arrives, and we find ourselves needing to port to Qt 5. > > ===== New Features ===== > * Linked segments > * "Turn Links into Copies" entry is added to the segment menu > * Repeated segments may be may be displayed in the notation editor in > several optional ways > * Redundant clefs and keys may be hidden automatically > * In the configuration dialog a new tab controls the preceding features > * Changed the behavior of SegmentSplitCommand to ensure that if a segment > was selected before being split, the two new split segments would also be > selected > * Fit to Beats; takes a beat track and adjusts tempo to put real time and > beats exactly on the given notes > * Erase Tempos in Range > * Expand Figuration, which lets you define a bar of figuration and expand > it > for every block chord in a segment > * Improved performance of VU meters > * Linked segments can be used to create repeats with 1..n alternate endings > (with some caveats) > * Create Anacrusis automates a tedious sequence of steps, making it a snap > to start pickup notes at precisely the right time, with all the following > segments lining up properly > > ===== Bug Fixes ===== > * Fixed B#/Cb octave export problem in MusicXML and Mup > * Fixed problem with segments repeating when they shouldn't have been > * Fixed the solo buttons in the transport toolbars in the notation and > matrix editors, and changed the behavior so that the solo button is in the > same state everywhere, no matter what content is being displayed in a > particular window > * Fixed the settings amnesia problem with the main window parameter area > * Fixed a bug where events beyond the end marker of the first segment in a > join would appear in the joined segment > * After joining segments, the newly created segment is now selected > * Pitch tracker now tracks pitches when they are in octaves below notated > with "ignore > octave error" on > * Pitch tracker honors "ignore octave error" flag > * Default pitch tracker settings are no longer stupid > * Flats were not cancelled on a C-maj key change > * Rulers in notation were desynchronized when a segment was deleted while > some zoom factor was in use > * The "anacrusis problem" which was giving a broken notation when a segment > in contact with a preceding one was not starting at the beginning of a bar > > ===== Available Languages ===== > We have reached a point where we no longer have the resources to even attempt > to maintain a regular translation program. > > =====People who contributed to Rosegarden development for this release:===== > * Niek van den Berg > * Alvar Udras > * Ted Felix > * Daren Beattie > * Tom Breton > * Yves Guillemot > * Ian Gardner > * Nick Bailey > > =====People who contributed device and demo files to the Rosegarden > Library===== > * Aere Greenway > -- ** NOTE **: This gmail address is my new email. I will still be reading my libero.it email, but please use this new one for any further email. Thanks you for understanding. ** NOTA **: Questo indirizzo gmail è la mia nuova email. Continuerò a leggere la posta libero.it ancora per un po' ma vi prego di usare questa nuova da ora in poi. Grazie per la comprensione. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
