[Rosegarden-user] ornaments file and arpeggio sign?

2022-06-14 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
is there a file of ornament snippets available that can be incorporated into an rg project? i can make up my ornaments using Playing ornaments https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/doc/en/nv-ornaments.html however, one would think that there is a collection somewhere? i couldn't find anything in the ex

Re: [Rosegarden-user] quantizing intelligently

2022-06-13 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
"David W. Jones" writes: > When focussed on putting notes into a score, I manually put notes on the > score using the mouse pointer. > i find the mouse pointer blocks my visibility - it's a large plus sign, but may be there's a way to customize it ... haven't looked, because i usually do things

[Rosegarden-user] quantizing intelligently

2022-06-13 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
i understand from the wiki that heuristic notation quantization is for adjusting "note start times and durations so as to produce readable notation" the segment on Notation from performance data gives some tips on how to use it, even saying "Rosegarden includes a quantizer designed to do a slightl

Re: [Rosegarden-user] OT: My (new) sig (was: Re: Documentation, tutorials, videos? [WAS]: Re: Do we want LV2 and jack-midi?)

2022-06-13 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > In googling today, I learned that the AP style guide (used by entities like, > well, the Associated Press ;-) considers it obsolete. > > The Chicago Manual of Style (used by entities like book publishers and > (some?) > educators (iiuc) still requires it. > interes

Re: [Rosegarden-user] script to produce yoshimi.rgd and how to change banks

2022-06-13 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Lorenzo Sutton writes: > Hi Prad, > hello lorenzo! many thx for this reply! > Personally, I must admit that I hardly ever use that file. I prefer to > change instruments etc. in Yoshimi and have nothing set-up in that > regards in Rosegarden. That is because 95% of times I will be tweaking

Re: [Rosegarden-user] OT: My (new) sig (was: Re: Documentation, tutorials, videos? [WAS]: Re: Do we want LV2 and jack-midi?)

2022-06-13 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > I should have included the link (one of them): > >* [[https://thewritelife.com/is-the-oxford-comma-necessary/][A Win for the > Oxford Comma: This Lawsuit Shows Why It’s So Important]] > ha! thx for this. i have always maintained that there should be that comma bu

[Rosegarden-user] script to produce yoshimi.rgd and how to change banks

2022-06-12 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
having played around for a while with rg and a downloaded a yoshimi.rgd from https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/rosegarden/data/library/yoshimi.rgd?format=raw i found that it doesn't match the yoshimi banks and instrument setup i'm getting from yoshimi now on archlinux. so

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Documentation, tutorials, videos? [WAS]: Re: Do we want LV2 and jack-midi?

2022-06-11 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Lorenzo Sutton writes: > It seems today videos are very popular, but I wonder if they can really > help people get started? Would a short written 'how to make sound with > Rosegarden' be better (also it could be updated versus a video which > might become obsolete) > i think written howtos are

Re: [Rosegarden-user] How to set up standalone Zyn or Yoshimi

2022-06-08 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
david writes: > I seem to have lost my audio device somewhere in this process. I should > never have tested pipewire - it messed things up and even uninstalling > it and removing config hasn't fixed it. > pipewire is working nicely for me (at least for what i'm doing anyway). i also installed p

Re: [Rosegarden-user] How to set up standalone Zyn or Yoshimi

2022-06-08 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
krsg...@trixtar.org writes: > Thanks, I looked at it and I sometimes lurk on that forum too but my > problems are before that stage so to speak. Found the Yoshimi.rgd but > I have no ~/.local/share/rosegarden/library folder to put it into. > were you working from the terminal or a file manager (eg

Re: [Rosegarden-user] How to set up standalone Zyn or Yoshimi

2022-06-08 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
krsg...@trixtar.org writes: > Once I solve this I want to try the standalone Yoshimi > don't know if this is of any help to you, krsgrdn, but i have just had some success with rg and yoshimi after considerable fiddling (due to my own ignorance about all this). i posted how i did it on linuxmusici

Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-08 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
prad writes: > so i don't understand what i'm actually running from the dmesg, but it > seems clear that when i have the > preempt=full (in /etc/defaults/grub > > i would like to know what the point of the dmesg "full" is, but for > practical purposes i do seem to have control over the quality. >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-06 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Ted Felix writes: >PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is something new. It doesn't guarantee you are > running a preemptible kernel. It allows for turning on PREEMPT via the > kernel command line parameters (preempt=full). > >This post seems helpful: > > https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrm

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Do we want LV2 and jack-midi?

2022-06-06 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Lorenzo Sutton writes: > I've often stated that I'd be happy for rosegarden 'not to make sound' > in itself and 'just' be the best Linux sequencer ;-) _but_ ... then it > means it should also provide flexible and versatile inter-operability > and communication with the ecosystem. > imho, as a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-05 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Ted Felix writes: >See my guide if you haven't already: > > http://www.tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html > actually, i just realized i did see your guide before joining this list! i even did uname -a Linux schnell 5.18.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC and saw that your guide says: The imp

Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-05 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Ted Felix writes: >That's not normal. I'm running 11-year-old under-powered hardware > with no problems. > >Have you configured your security limits and are you using a > real-time kernel? > >See my guide if you haven't already: > > http://www.tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html > i

Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-05 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
krsg...@trixtar.org writes: > I put the message back on list we. copy to you, sorry about that mess > no problem. i'm just getting used to this maillist system and keep messing up myself. :D > I never used the params in the plugin before so I had tyo load RG to see. > > Yes, using the Zyn plugi

Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-05 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Ted Felix writes: >> On Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:03:44 -0700 >> prad wrote: > what is the recommended|prefered way to get sound in rg? > >Avoid the plugins (at least at first). Run your softsynths standalone. > this is the decisive answer i was hoping for! both you and will confirm it. i tr

[Rosegarden-user] midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

2022-06-03 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
i am using rg with timidity. initially i tried with fluidsynth, but it kept crashing while recording. in the manual i found: "when Rosegarden is running a plugin, if the plugin hangs or crashes, so does Rosegarden" https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/doc/en/studio-plugins.html so possibly that explain

Re: [Rosegarden-user] lilypond -> midi -> rg -> lilypond

2022-06-01 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Yves Guillemot writes: > Here is another way: > - In RG, open the segment with rests and lyrics in a notation editor > - Open the segment with notes in another notation editor > - In the first notation editor, open the lyric editor (View -> Open >Lyric Editor) > - Copy all lyrics: Ctrl-A

[Rosegarden-user] lilypond -> midi -> rg -> lilypond

2022-05-30 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
i have a lot of ly files created with frescobaldi and 1. want to bring them into rg (for editing, playback etc) 2. then export them back to ly (to keep things rg based) the only way i can see doing this (since rg doesn't import ly), is to a. make midi files out of the ly b. import into rg c. e

Re: [Rosegarden-user] export to lilypond

2022-05-30 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
Yves Guillemot writes: > You should not have to manually modify .ly file because LilyPond > provide convert-ly: a tool to do it automatically. > works beautifully! thank you and quite an honor receiving the solution from you, yves! > It depends how many time archlinux needs to incorporate a new

[Rosegarden-user] export to lilypond

2022-05-30 Thread prad via Rosegarden-user
rosegarden 21.12 qt 5.15.2 which is what i get on archlinux exports to lilypond 2.14 though i read that it detects the version of lilypond on my computer. lilypond is up to 2.22.2 though it still works with minor editing of the .ly file (eg remove \lyricsto). i have to change the \version too. a