rosegarden-user: I've attempted to use Rosegarden using default Linux distribution binary packages on:
a. Debian Wheezy (12.04). b. Fedora 20 (13.10). In both cases, I've run into problems with DSSI plug-in synthesizers: 1. For multi-track Rosegarden projects on both Debian and Fedora, if I assign a track to a DSSI plug-in synthesizer instrument, save the Rosegarden project, close Rosegarden, start Rosegarden, and then open the project, things look okay in the top-level Rosegarden window, but when I play the music I get wrong instruments. For example, I arranged J.S. Bach's Invention No. 8 for two violins and two cellos. When I open and play the project, I hear two violins, one cello, and one piano. 2. If I select each track in turn and click on its Track Parameters -> Instrument drop-down list, I can get three correct instruments and one silent track (the silent track depends upon the order in which I selected tracks?). 3. On one trial in Fedora, I then chose Track -> Unmute All Tracks from the menu and was able to get all four correct instruments. (This alone does not fix the wrong instrument issue.) 4. On Fedora, the DSSI Editor button doesn't work -- a process is started in the background (as shown by 'ps -A' in the console), but the plug-in editor dialog never opens. If I exit Rosegarden and attempt to start Rosegarden, Rosegarden hangs at the splash screen "Initializing plugin manager..." because the DSSI editor process is still running. If I manually kill the leftover DSSI editor process, Rosegarden completes starting. 5. On Debian, the Xsynth patch save/ load functionality in the editor doesn't work right -- if I create some patches, say #63-65, save them, and load them back into #63-65 on another Rosegarden channel, I'd get the default Xsynth patch. I seem to recall on trial where loaded them into patches #0-2, and that worked. I see that Rosegarden is now at version 14.02. What's the solution? i. File bug reports with the distribution package maintainers, wait for patches, download source, patch, rebuild? ii. File bug reports with Rosegarden, wait for patches, download source, patch, rebuild? iii. Download current Rosegarden source and build? iv. Something else? TIA, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
