Re: [Rosegarden-user] Audio File Location Issue

2022-01-28 Thread steve conrad
my personal preference is to default to the same ./ as the rg file itself. That way anyone in the habit of dumping all their rg files into ~/rosegarden will know where to find them, while people who want to save them somewhere else can effortlessly keep the associated audio files in that different

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Audio score creation

2021-03-21 Thread steve conrad
Nothing does that On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 4:15 PM M.R.P. zensky via Rosegarden-user < rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hello I am looking for linux software that can take an audio track and > convert it to sheet music. Does Rosegarden allow this? > > _

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Import sf2

2021-02-20 Thread steve conrad
Importing the sf2 in the 'manage midi devices' dialog has a mostly decorative function. Ie, it only effects the the labels that RG assigns to tracks. If you are fairly new to this sort of stuff what i bet you want to do is to load the font into a synth to make some sounds. This is done in qsynth

Re: [Rosegarden-user] beginners question : getting sound

2021-02-10 Thread steve conrad
If you're just looking to make examples of non-standard tunings, csound is probably your most direct route. While csound's learning curve is genarally alarmingly precipitous, in this instance it might be what you're looking for. On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 10:18 AM Tom Peters wrote: > On 09-02-2021 05:

Re: [Rosegarden-user] [OT]: quick and easy music making: a marketer's dream [WAS] Re: beginners question : getting sound

2021-02-10 Thread steve conrad
Technically speaking RG does make sound without any coaxing although this point likely won't be well taken by a first time user who just want to hear some sequenced sounds. Part of the problem is the sheer diversity of available instruments. Apart from the go to fluidsynth, most distros have packa

[Rosegarden-user] work flow irritants

2020-12-31 Thread steve conrad
I was recently working on an audio project in RG using an existing midi as a guide track and encountered a couple of pesky issues I haven't run up against before. The midi I imported (understandably) didn't have any audio track, so I added eight of them at one go via tracks->add tracks Doing s

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden raspberry pi?

2020-12-13 Thread steve conrad
Btw, when I last tried RG on a Pi, there was a precompiled version in the Raspbian repo. Good thing. Pis aren't real good at compiling stuff is a hurry. On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM steve conrad wrote: > I have used Rosegarden on a Pi3. It worked about as much as any desktop >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden raspberry pi?

2020-12-13 Thread steve conrad
I have used Rosegarden on a Pi3. It worked about as much as any desktop app can be said to work on one of those things. Didn't make it crash more than anything else. As near as I can make out, once a Pi runs out of RAM it just reboots and that happens pretty often using Raspbian. PIs are basically

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Humanizing MIDI tracks

2016-03-27 Thread Steve Conrad
Two good things to randomize are timing and velocity, obviously. Note velocities can be tweeked in the velocity ruler to get a faux random effect. The start time and duration of notes can be given individual micro-adjustments in the note properties pop up. Pushing the tempo or just plain screwi

[Rosegarden-user] Blog on RG Organ Sounds

2015-02-11 Thread Steve Conrad
I have written up a short article on my experience experimenting with organ sounds on Rosegarden using different synthesizers and effects processors. It may be of some interest to readers of this list. http://steve-conrad.com/blog/?page_id=65

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Bars & Ties

2015-02-11 Thread Steve Conrad
Csound is utterly indifferent to note names and accidentals. Notes are called by their frequencies (yuck), midi note number or most commonly PCH notation which is what Rosegarden exports. In PCH, octaves are integers and the notes within an octave are decimals, so that 6.00 is middle C, 7.04 is the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Bars & Ties

2015-02-11 Thread Steve Conrad
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] Bars & Ties

2015-02-11 Thread Steve Conrad
Thanks. That's helpful. Accessing bar line positions is more trouble than it's worth for me right is what that part of your answer tells me. That frees up some time for me. As for the ties, a note would have two properties: one for tied from and another for tied to. Any idea where I could find

[Rosegarden-user] Bars & Ties

2015-02-11 Thread Steve Conrad
How would I go about rounding up the bar lines in a segment? It would not appear that a bar line is an event, since in jpff;;;'s CsoundExport code, all non-note events are printed as a comment line, and bar lines aren't there in the output. Same thing for ties. They aren't there either. If they ar

Re: [Rosegarden-user] CsoundExport

2015-02-02 Thread steve conrad
Thanks. For now just commit the attached Csound Export.cpp. That really improves usability from my point of view. I'll try to figure out how to do something about the ties as time permits. -- Dive into the World of Paralle

Re: [Rosegarden-user] CsoundExport

2015-02-01 Thread steve conrad
It mostly works as it is. The thing is that you can't proceed on the assumption that your RG composition will come popping out the other end of csound at the press of a button. I use it to make a start on a csound score which then needs some touching up by hand. However, just getting all notes dow

[Rosegarden-user] CsoundExport

2015-02-01 Thread steve conrad
Since rosegarden remains the only way I know of the create a csound score using standard musical notation, I thought I might adjust a couple of pesky things about the otherwise excellent way it makes the files. 1) Instrument 0 is not valid in csound, so I just add 1 to the track number to avoid i

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ubuntustudio and Elusive libs

2015-01-31 Thread steve conrad
Thanks Ted. That was just the information I needed. Went off without a hitch. I also tried leaving the jack.pc file untouched and passing the correct path to the jack headers as an environmental variable. This also worked. Kicking myself for checking that all the libs were where pkgconfig said the

[Rosegarden-user] Ubuntustudio and Elusive libs

2015-01-31 Thread steve conrad
Having a bit of bother getting RG 14.12 to find libs when compiling UbuntuStudio 14.10. The problem, of course is that Ubuntu sticks its libs pretty deep in the file system under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ When it can't see libQtGui.so I can easily solve the problem by changing my configure comma

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Useless Mode?

2014-11-17 Thread Steve Conrad
Yes, that was it. Vaguely remembered something like that but couldn't find the button, never having used it in all my years with RG. The troublesome stylized S appears in the track window but not in the main one so I was just looking in the wrong place. Thanks. > > >> After spending a fair

[Rosegarden-user] Useless Mode?

2014-11-17 Thread steve conrad
After spending a fair amount of time punching in a piece today, I suddenly found it would only play one track at a time. Whichever one I select in the main window. This strange and unhelpful situation only affects the tune in question and seems incurable. I'm wondering if I might have accidentall

Re: [Rosegarden-user] multiple separate inputs in one recording?

2014-06-16 Thread steve conrad
Actually, that was a bit of shabby reading on my part. The solution I mentioned earlier only works for audio ins and outs, not midi ones. On 6/16/14, Bric wrote: > On 06/16/2014 10:00 PM, steve conrad wrote: >> Actually, that was a bit of shabby reading on my part. This only works >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] multiple separate inputs in one recording?

2014-06-16 Thread steve conrad
You have to go to Edit -》Preferences -》Audio and check the box for "create jack outputs for individual audio insruments". Then just make the desired connections in patchage. On Jun 12, 2014 6:50 AM, "Andrew" wrote: > Hi, all > > I've always had the inkling that this was possible, because the inte

[Rosegarden-user] sooperlooper

2014-05-05 Thread steve conrad
Thanks for responding to such an arguably off topic question. After a bit of tinkering around I have managed to figure things out, mostly. I am trying to use Rosegarden to control SooperLooper in order to automate a variety of tasks, thereby freeing my hands from the mouse and putting them back on

[Rosegarden-user] sooperlooper

2014-05-02 Thread steve conrad
Has anyone tried using RG to control SooperLooper? I notice RG quite readily attaches itself to SL in the studio setup, but I'm just not smart enough to figure out how to get RG to send midi control events to SL. I've been playing around with loops on my guitar lately, but find it a bit distracti

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu Studio 14 - Don't Do It

2014-05-02 Thread steve conrad
g the plunge. Live and learn. On 5/2/14, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 05/02/2014 12:19 PM, steve conrad wrote: > >> I've attached a small example that reliably >> crashes RG on my machine. Just try to copy and paste the last two bars >> into the next bit of

[Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu Studio 14 - Don't Do It

2014-05-02 Thread steve conrad
I just "upgraded" from ubuntustudio 13 to version 14. Bad move. Everything crashes all the time. Too bad, really. I've been using this distro for a few years now, and this is the first time I've ended up installing a truly regrettable dud. Most relevantly to this list, RG dumps its core in respons

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Setup Automatic Pitch Bend?

2013-04-16 Thread steve conrad
Probably the most efficient work around is to make your own sound font with the samples retuned to suit your purposes. The midi note to sample mapping of a font doesn't really require you to sound the note corresponding to the midi note number you've selected. Percussion fonts are one obvious exam

[Rosegarden-user] 3/7/2013 2:41:57 AM

2013-03-06 Thread steve conrad
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-29 Thread steve conrad
Ubuntu Studio 12.04 defaults to XFCE I believe. I've been using it for a while now with great success. Didn't take much of a test ride to boil down Unity though. 12.04 finally has a proper real time pre-emptive kernel again after going through a bit of a rough patch for a release or two.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Busted Examples

2012-05-17 Thread steve conrad
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[Rosegarden-user] Busted Examples

2012-05-16 Thread steve conrad
I'd like to point out that my examples are broken again. Track 9 should in all cases be a second drum track. But it comes up as a non-percussion track in the wrong key instead. I do this to make the notation more manageable since cymbals and hi-hat are all notated as sharp notes whereas kick, sna

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Can't connect virtual MIDI input (Windows version)

2012-01-23 Thread steve conrad
a feature, not a bug? On 1/18/12, Josep Pujadas i Jubany wrote: > Hello! > > I downloaded today Rosergarden for Windows and I found two problems: > > * I have JACK for Windows also installed (it comes with last version of > Hydrogen). The Windows version of Rosegarden can't work with JACK. JACK >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Trouble with softsynths

2011-12-25 Thread steve conrad
The two most common reasons for this sort of thing are that either you have no soundfont loaded in your softsynth, or else that you haven't set up RG to route its midi output through the softsynth that you have. The solution to the first one will vary with the synth you're using, but should be pre

Re: [Rosegarden-user] controlling attack?

2011-12-15 Thread steve conrad
A slightly more off topic solution is to make your own sound font using swami or viena, and to create multiple velocity layers with differing attack times. (Viena - not vienna - is a windows program, but it works for me under wine). I've made a few guitar fonts like this with progressively longer

Re: [Rosegarden-user] [Rosegarden-devel] ROSEGARDEN 11.11.42, codename "Edelweiss" RELEASED

2011-12-13 Thread steve conrad
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] Alternative repeats

2011-05-17 Thread steve conrad
Btw, as far as playing a second ending goes (rather than notating one) RG will truncate a repeated segment as soon as it encounters any other segment in that track, so it's pretty easy to get it to play an alternate ending by simply plopping down the desired second ending as a new segment in the ap

[Rosegarden-user] (no subject)

2011-05-09 Thread steve conrad
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] Percussion is silent or sounds like piano

2011-04-12 Thread steve conrad
Again, I don't use timidity either (Why are you?) However, I'd guess that the synth is set to use a percussion preset not contained in your soundfont, hence the silence. Try changing the percussion preset you are using until you get some sound. Might want to try using fluidsynth instead also, si

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Is there a collection of permissively licensed example/demo .rg files?

2011-04-04 Thread steve conrad
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] Sure Is Hard to Record Rosegarden's Output

2011-03-20 Thread steve conrad
you're already an audio engineer. > > steve conrad wrote: >> Thanks for the info. >> >> I'll have to set aside some time to figure out ardour. >> >> On 3/19/11, Al Thompson wrote: >>> On 03/20/2011 01:07 AM, steve conrad wrote: >>> >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Sure Is Hard to Record Rosegarden's Output

2011-03-20 Thread steve conrad
Thanks for the info. I'll have to set aside some time to figure out ardour. On 3/19/11, Al Thompson wrote: > On 03/20/2011 01:07 AM, steve conrad wrote: > >> In the end, I just stuck a jumper cable from my headphone jack to my >> line in and dumped it onto an RG audio tr

[Rosegarden-user] Sure Is Hard to Record Rosegarden's Output

2011-03-19 Thread steve conrad
io in question can be heard at http://soundcloud.com/steveconrad/steve-conrad-rundle-saturday if anyone's interested in hearing a pleasant little chord change having the living crap beat out of it by an onslaught of filthy guitar playing.

[Rosegarden-user] pulse audio & qjackctl autostart

2011-03-02 Thread steve conrad
I'm not always needing a full audiophile experience when I'm using Rosegarden and frequently wish I could hear sound on a web page or use some other non-jack aware sound app without all the bother of shutting down jack to free up the sound card every time. I also wanted to start regular old non-ja

Re: [Rosegarden-user] pulse audio & qjackctl autostart

2011-03-02 Thread steve conrad
Just a quick addendum. Substituting module-volume-restore for module-stream-restore in jack.pa seems to solve the problem with the server sometimes failing to start on the first try. i.e. doing things like in Harald Hoyer's example works properly, and listening to pulse' nagging doesn't. ---

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Real-time Linux needed?

2011-02-24 Thread steve conrad
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] Re mapped channels with no sound

2011-02-22 Thread steve conrad
A slightly less crude approach is just to import the default studio into the file (Studio->Import Default Studio), then make whatever ever changes are necessary to get sound working ok and saving the file. I did this with Djer-Fire and it seems to be working ok. Apparently just making the changes

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Re mapped channels with no sound

2011-02-22 Thread steve conrad
As a follow up to this I notice, as did Michael, that if you close the file and then open it again there in no sound once again. Checking the Studio->Manage Midi Devices window, everything is as I left it (i.e. [129:0] Synth Input Port is still selected. Restarting fluidsynth starts to solve the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Re mapped channels with no sound

2011-02-22 Thread steve conrad
Since the older examples you write of were installed, Rosegarden has made some changes to the way channels are setup. "Beginning with version 10.02, Rosegarden no longer provides controls for changing the channel associated with each MIDI instrument Instead each instrument uses the same channel as

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Fave studio distro

2011-02-21 Thread steve conrad
I was using Artist X for quite a while. http://www.artistx.org/site3/ It's a live distribution that's distributed as a live DVD image. Based on Ubuntu 10.04. Comes with a whole shit load of linux sound apps, including Rosegarden, jack and fluisynth. Also the default kernel has the real time patch