I'm using a recent development version of rosegarden that I compiled around a week ago - according to "about rosegarden":
Version: 13.10 Qt version: 4.8.4 Build key: 694fcb9aa0 I was surprised to find that rosegarden is not recording program change events. Before I describe my setup in detail and what I've tried, I'd like to first make sure that I'm not expecting something that does not exist - so, as my subject suggests, my question is: Is the current version of rosegarden supposed to record program-change messages? I did some grepping in old rosegarden mailing-list files and found over 200 messages that mentioned 'program change'; a few of those were relevant to recording PC messages. Some seemed to suggest that RG does not record PC messages, but the impression I got was that it was supposed to - e.g.: "If your keyboard transmits bank/program changes, Rosegarden should record them, and they should work when played back. ..." [ http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=417145.87918.qm%40web38401.mail.mud.yahoo.com&forum_name=rosegarden-user ] This was posted by Michael in Feb 2008. I suppose the requirements could have changed since then, but that would surprise me. Now if RG is not supposed to record program-change events, then there's nothing else for me to do [except, perhaps, to submit a feature request :-)]; but if it is supposed to record PCs, then either I've encountered a bug or I'm doing something wrong - misconfiguration or something. I should mention that, after seeing mention of unchecking the "Bank" and "Program" check-boxes under "instrument parameters" and checking "Receive external" (which from their description I thought _might_ be relevant to recording PC events), I tried a few different combinations (including Bank and Program unchecked, Receive external checked) - all with Channel: fixed. (I did not try auto.) Nothing worked. However, I did see that rosegarden was recording bank-select control-change messages. I used Kmidimon - both by directing the MIDI stream/connection to both rosegarden and Kmidimon (and saw PCs show up in Kmidimon but no evidence of it in rosegarden); and I played back the recording in rosegarden connected to Kmidimon so that I could see in Kmidimon what events RG was sending - again I saw bank-select messages but no program changes. I can give more details on what I've tried, if needed, after I've verified from you guys that RG is supposed to (or not) record PCs. BTW, I thought it best to post this to the user list, but if I should send it to the dev list, please let me know. By the way (this is not really related, but I thought might merit correcting): when I was grepping through the mailing list I saw that someone said in 2009: "Currently you can add program changes through the event list editor but not bank changes." Either that feature was added later or the poster was wrong - I was able to add both PC events and bank-select (MSB/LSB - 2 separate events) in the event list editor with no problem. Thanks! Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
