On 1/2/21 8:50 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
On 1/2/21 8:42 AM, Ted Felix wrote:
On 12/31/20 4:50 PM, steve conrad wrote:
than audio #1-8 as might be expected and as is the case in a new
empty file.
Yeah, that sounds wrong and should be easily improved. Will get
it on the todo.
Just as a data point, the same thing happens (and has always happened)
when adding MIDI tracks. If you delete everything down to just one
track, and add a track with the add track icon, it's a MIDI track by
default, and if you add 10 of them in a row, they all default to
instrument #1.
The behavior actually seems reasonable to me. I guess Rosegarden could
analyze the entire composition every time you add a track, and try to
assign it to some unique instrument combo, but how often would it do
the right thing? Sometimes you just have to let users set things up
how they want by hand.
What happens if... you start a new RG project with all the tracks, then
import the MIDI track? You should have all the audio tracks properly
numbered, yes?
My second irritant is that it is no longer possible to copy and
paste between separate invocations of RG.
Are you copying/pasting in the Segment Canvas (main window) or one
of the editors (Matrix, Notation, etc...)?
To be clear, he's talking about separate invocations or instances of
Rosegarden. One of the things that became possible after the huge
rewrite and port to Qt4 was the ability to run Rosegarden more than
once on the same computer. It's honestly more of a side effect of the
new architecture (sequencer as a thread rather than a separate
process) than something we specifically planned.
Start Rosegarden, then start Rosegarden again. You have Rosegarden <1>
and Rosegarden <2>. Copy something in Rosegarden <1> and try to paste
it in Rosegarden <2> and nothing happens.
I think I remember a time when this actually did work, but I'm not
sure. I do remember experimenting with running two instances briefly,
and I added up a list of issues. I think we basically just punted on
all the issues, and decided not to support this formally. It's a thing
you can do, but it isn't necessarily supposed to work reliably. Caveat
usor.
I kind of thought copypaste track between projects had worked at one
time. It's not a function I used much although it's absence seems
counterintuitive. Most office apps have no problems with it.
You get into issues with ALSA and JACK, which Rosegarden is which, and
other things I've forgotten. Keeping config files in sync, would be an
issue. Change config in <1> and change it differently in <2>, which
config should be written to disk?
The more I think about this kind of stuff, the more convinced I am
that we all just kicked this can down the road, and didn't really do
anything one way or the other. If the clipboard used to be shared, I
don't know how, but it was probably working through some really nasty
mechanism that shouldn't have worked, like pointers from one instance
that should have been invalid in the other, but weren't, or something.
Anyway, I leave it up to you to figure out where you want Rosegarden
to go in this area. I'm just trying to offer some historical
perspective here.
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