Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-11 Thread Joshua O'Leary
On 11/05/12 11:42, Holger Marzen wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Chris Cannam wrote: On 10 May 2012 12:38, Richard Bown wrote: On one point - who hosts the RG website currently and any chance making this editable with some non stone-age tools and for multiple users? I host it. It gets updated a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-11 Thread Holger Marzen
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Chris Cannam wrote: > On 10 May 2012 12:38, Richard Bown wrote: > > On one point - who hosts the RG website currently and any chance making > > this editable with some non stone-age tools and for multiple users? > > I host it. It gets updated automatically from the Subversi

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread david
On 05/10/2012 01:10 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > I guess this problem affects all software development, but I wouldn't know > that, because I'm not a professional by any means. I guess Rosegarden is my > rude awakening to all the jubilation and glee I missed out on by being a > liberal arts m

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread david
On 05/10/2012 05:46 AM, Andy wrote: > > Richard Bown wrote: >> Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could >> contribute to new website/direction/developments. >> >> Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed out some >> people who are big current c

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Abrolag
On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:18:11 +0200 Richard Bown wrote: > Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could > contribute to new website/direction/developments. > > Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed out some > people who are big current contribu

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Abrolag
On Wed, 9 May 2012 07:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Holger Marzen wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2012, Abrolag wrote: > > > On the promotional side... > > For what it's worth, absolutely every track on my website - and there are > > one or > > two there :) - was developed and performed using Rosegarden. This incl

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Cannam
On 10 May 2012 16:18, Richard Bown wrote: > Devs or Interested in Ports I'm not particularly interested in a Mac port and don't especially want one, but I'm certainly competent to make one and would try to help out if there was more general interest. (Why not particularly interested? I just don'

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread David Tisdell
I can try and recruit some Mac developers but I am not a developer myself. I know how to compile things but not write code. I could also contribute something in the songwriting area. Another thought is that Debian used to post a list of consultants (probably still does) where people could go for l

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Holger Marzen wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > >> Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could >> contribute to new website/direction/developments. >> >> Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Holger Marzen
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could > contribute to new website/direction/developments. > > Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed out some > people who are big current contributors. This is

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Andy
Richard Bown wrote: > Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could > contribute to new website/direction/developments. > > Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed out some > people who are big current contributors. This is just to get the ball

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Bown
Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could contribute to new website/direction/developments. Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed out some people who are big current contributors. This is just to get the ball rolling so apologies in advanc

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Cannam
[cc -devel] On 10 May 2012 13:41, Ian Gardner wrote: > I guess people like me are part of the problem in this regard, turn up one > day, chuck something in to do with linked segments and then f. off into the > sunset. Fly-by-night, here today and gone tomorrow contributors :-( Well, you could

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Ian Gardner
>I guess this problem affects all software development, but I wouldn't know >that, because I'm not a professional by any means.  I guess Rosegarden is my >rude awakening to all the jubilation and glee I missed out on by being a >liberal arts major. > >No great loss.  Software is a pain in the as

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Bown
> But don't forget that overhauling websites (regardless of tools) is a > time sink almost comparable to developing software, especially since > everyone always has an opinion... Agreed. And I wasn't offering but some people have and so that's why I thought I'd put together a proposal for potent

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Cannam
On 10 May 2012 12:38, Richard Bown wrote: > On one point - who hosts the RG website currently and any chance making this > editable with some non stone-age tools and for multiple users? I host it. It gets updated automatically from the Subversion repo. (https://rosegarden.svn.sourceforge.net/svn

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Bown
> liberal arts major. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1VhsNOwPU > No great loss. Software is a pain in the ass. It is. And any professional software of this size and complexity would be equally gnarly. It's just the way it is and we all learn to accept this eventually because for some of u

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Wednesday, May 09, 2012, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > ...It's a prettier example of the same sort of breed as that car. After a bit more reflection, it occurs to me the real problem is not the eclectic design, but that every neat little gizmo bolted onto this thing was manufactured by a diff

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-09 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > On 8 May 2012, at 22:46, Chris Cannam wrote: > > But you and I have had a lot of time off from this project, and I > > guess both of us did that because we felt a bit like Michael > > Indeed. It's a soul wrecker this software. It really is. I th

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Holger Marzen
On Tue, 8 May 2012, Abrolag wrote: > On the promotional side... > For what it's worth, absolutely every track on my website - and there are one > or > two there :) - was developed and performed using Rosegarden. This includes > controlling both hardware and soft synths, hydrogen drum machine and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread PMA
Richard Bown wrote: >> >>> There is real truth in that. I've literally never taken a proper go >> somewhere >>> and see something sort of vacation since the last one I took with my >> family as >>> a kid. That was 1987. >> >> Well, your constitution must be incredible. >> After that, I'd have bee

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread PMA
Chris Cannam wrote: > On 8 May 2012 18:57, D. Michael McIntyre > wrote: >> On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, PMA wrote: >> >>> Waay too hard on yourself. >>> You need a (free) weekend in Acapulco! >> >> There is real truth in that. > > Hang on, did I miss something? Is someone offering a free

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
On 8 May 2012, at 22:46, Chris Cannam wrote: > But you and I have had a lot of time off from this project, and I > guess both of us did that because we felt a bit like Michael Indeed. It's a soul wrecker this software. R

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Cannam
On 8 May 2012 08:23, Richard Bown wrote: >> I have failed. > > What absolute self indulgent rubbish. Though a very nicely constructed extended metaphor. I think you're sort-of right that the proper answer ought to be a nice brisk one about how it's just going the way it has to go and if it isn't

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Cannam
On 8 May 2012 18:57, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, PMA wrote: > >> Waay too hard on yourself. >> You need a (free) weekend in Acapulco! > > There is real truth in that. Hang on, did I miss something? Is someone offering a free weekend in Acapulco? Chris ---

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Mario Moles
Hello everyone! That's a lot that does not speak in this ml-list! I also have something to say on the future of rosegarden. I really like rosegarden. But I'm a maniac lilypond, mainly by Frescobaldi, because exploitation of power by lilypond rosegarden is, forgive me, ridiculous and depressing

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
> > > There is real truth in that. I've literally never taken a proper go > somewhere > > and see something sort of vacation since the last one I took with my > family as > > a kid. That was 1987. > > Well, your constitution must be incredible. > After that, I'd have been in a Happy Farm > long s

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread PMA
D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, PMA wrote: > >> Waay too hard on yourself. >> You need a (free) weekend in Acapulco! > > There is real truth in that. I've literally never taken a proper go somewhere > and see something sort of vacation since the last one I took w

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Abrolag
On Tue, 08 May 2012 08:53:39 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 08/05/12 02:36, David Tisdell wrote: > ... > > One of the things I like about RG is that it > > adapts well whatever your approach to composition. > > +1 very well said. > Lorenzo. Indeed. On the promotional side... For what it's wo

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, PMA wrote: > Waay too hard on yourself. > You need a (free) weekend in Acapulco! There is real truth in that. I've literally never taken a proper go somewhere and see something sort of vacation since the last one I took with my family as a kid. That was 1

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Ian Gardner wrote: > is to write an implementation for the virtual midi/sequencer interface in > rg in terms of Jack, and you can have a fully portable codebase to all > platforms out of the box (with the help of cygwin on windows) with midi and > audio magically w

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Ian Gardner
t; From: Richard Bown >To: David Tisdell >Cc: "rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net" > >Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 16:49 >Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future > > >Yes, but for the windows port so far audio isn't in scope.  And if it was

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Cannam
On 8 May 2012 17:18, David Tisdell wrote: > The attempt at a Mac port was done before the codebase had been moved to qt. > It was installed through fink. I exchanged email with the person who had > tried it and he had run into significant  problems because of KDE > dependencies and he gave up. I

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread David Tisdell
The attempt at a Mac port was done before the codebase had been moved to qt. It was installed through fink. I exchanged email with the person who had tried it and he had run into significant problems because of KDE dependencies and he gave up. Nice to hear about the commercial version of Ardour th

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
Yes, but for the windows port so far audio isn't in scope. And if it was I probably wouldn't do it with JACK I have to say. Purely because I've got bored of fancy APIs for stuff and different models you're forced to adopt to use them, ALSA and JACK did it for me. Midi with Rtmidi and ? for a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:31 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > I agree on the "More bang for the buck" on a Windows port but JACK already > runs on OS X as do some JACK aware apps. Percentage  of the user base wise, > the Mac has historically more people creating content (Don't know if that is > true to

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread David Tisdell
I agree on the "More bang for the buck" on a Windows port but JACK already runs on OS X as do some JACK aware apps. Percentage of the user base wise, the Mac has historically more people creating content (Don't know if that is true today) and it is fully POSIX compliant whereas Windows is not. It

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread PMA
D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > ... > I have failed. Waay too hard on yourself. You need a (free) weekend in Acapulco! -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's secu

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread PMA
David Tisdell wrote: > When I am writing, I almost always begin with the notation editor. Vitally > important tool. One of the things I like about RG is that it adapts well > whatever your approach to composition. > Fascinating -- that people work *so* differently. I write J-language programs that

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas Sattler
I'd think there is more bang for the buck in focusing on the Windows port rather than starting a new Mac port. Although since OSX is really just BSD Unix with a pretty face, it might be easier to do. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Richard Bown < richard.b...@ferventsoftware.com> wrote: > Th

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > Perhaps as a starting point we could "shake the tree" for developers on > Linux audio user lists, wikis, etc. since Linux is the platform of origin. > The core work should begin here and ports created as new features are worked > out. As a m

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread David Tisdell
Can a link be added to the alpha for Windows on the main Rosegarden website (If I didn't have the announcement archived, I wouldn't be able to easily find it)? It can have the disclaimer as being an Alpha but I have tried alpha software in the past that was fairly useful. Just that in itself shows

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
The Windows alpha is something I knocked together with a view to completing at least the MIDI portion at some point this year. Mac I can't do anything about at the moment as I don't have one. However perhaps that's a good angle to pursue with Kickstarter if there are more developers interested

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas Sattler
David, I played around a bit with the Windows alpha and it seemed to work pretty well; I believe that project is ongoing but there are others who are more familiar with its progress than I. --Tom On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > What it all seems to come down to is attra

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread David Tisdell
What it all seems to come down to is attracting more developers. It seems to me that there needs to be a multipronged approach. To attract more developers, it could help to expand the user base. If we had people evangelizing Rosegarden to the end user, we could expand the user base. I have presente

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
Sorry for cross post but want to hit developers too here. >> or perhaps even Kickstarter. > > Money could help if there were enough of it. To do kickstarter there would have to be a definite goal, a core collective, an output and some enticing pledge material. I'll have a think about this and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread david
On 05/07/2012 12:08 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 07/05/12 23:05, Brett McCoy wrote: >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, david wrote: >> >> Notation can be done with Lilypond, > > No please leave it in and value the notation! Notation as a > composition/creation tool as well, yes the typesetting

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread david
Actually, this David was only semi-joking about the matrix editor. I look at pieces of programs as resource costs. Resources spent on the matrix editor are not available for use on what I consider more important parts of the program. For what it's worth, I've have liked matrix editors for music

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > > I have failed. > > What absolute self indulgent rubbish. I'm glad my heartfelt outpouring of emotion is self-indulgent rubbish. I don't really care what you think either, as far as that goes. I've had it up to here with criticism. It strikes

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread ram
Rosegarden does pretty much all I need it to do. Yes, it has a few niggling (and apparently very hard to find) bugs, but no showstoppers that are easily worked around. As far as a future direction and additional features, you guys should check out the Impro-Visor project and maybe give it a spin

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Richard Bown
> I have failed. What absolute self indulgent rubbish. It's in fine shape. We just need a bit of positivity around here. Yes and time. And maybe a Summer of Code or perhaps even Kickstarter. Rather than making sweeping statements perhaps a plan is in order. R -

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Holger Marzen wrote: > If he has to work 70 hours a week behind the steering wheel of his truck > then he needs support. But who can help him? I want to point out that while the hours I have to spend working do have a negative influence on my ability to get things done

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 08/05/12 02:36, David Tisdell wrote: ... > One of the things I like about RG is that it > adapts well whatever your approach to composition. +1 very well said. Lorenzo. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive liv

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Holger Marzen
On Mon, 7 May 2012, Abrolag wrote: > I really, really, REALLY don't want to have to try to find something (or > even a bunch of somethings) that does all of that. > > I get frustrated by RGs bugs, but never by it's functionality. I second that. And, Rosegarden UI *is* intuitive. It took me some

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread David Tisdell
When I am writing, I almost always begin with the notation editor. Vitally important tool. One of the things I like about RG is that it adapts well whatever your approach to composition. Dave On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:07 PM, PMA wrote: > Abrolag wrote: > > On Mon, 07 May 2012 18:08:43 -0400 > >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread PMA
Abrolag wrote: > On Mon, 07 May 2012 18:08:43 -0400 > PMA wrote: > >> david wrote: >>> ... I think RG could profitably get rid of the matrix editor. ;-) >> >> For the record just in case, that would end my interest in RG. > > methinks david was having his little joke ;-) > i saw the ;-) but did

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Thomas Sattler wrote: >>  Notation can be done with Lilypond, > > Uh ... no, it can't.  Oh, you might be able to enter notes and get sheet > music out of it, but I have never heard of anyone who begins with a finished > composition. *raises hand* I've done many pie

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Abrolag
On Mon, 07 May 2012 18:08:43 -0400 PMA wrote: > david wrote: > > ... I think RG could profitably get rid of the matrix editor. ;-) > > For the record just in case, that would end my interest in RG. methinks david was having his little joke ;-) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Sattler
> Notation can be done with Lilypond, Uh ... no, it can't. Oh, you might be able to enter notes and get sheet music out of it, but I have never heard of anyone who begins with a finished composition. When you want to place notes on a staff, you typically want to hear what it sounds like after y

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread PMA
david wrote: > ... I think RG could profitably get rid of the matrix editor. ;-) For the record just in case, that would end my interest in RG. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 07/05/12 23:05, Brett McCoy wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, david wrote: > > Notation can be done with Lilypond, No please leave it in and value the notation! Notation as a composition/creation tool as well, yes the typesetting can be done in Lilypond but 'creating' music in the seq

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, david wrote: > I sometimes use the event editor. I never use the matrix editor. I think > RG could profitably get rid of the matrix editor. ;-) As far as MIDI composing goes, the matrix editor is the single most important feature. Notation can be done with Lilypon

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Abrolag
On Mon, 07 May 2012 10:13:48 -1000 david wrote: > On 05/06/2012 10:33 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > On 07/05/12 09:20, Holger Marzen wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I made my first song with rosegarden. I chose Rosegarden because: > >> > >> - MIDI-Sequencer > >> - Can use Synthesizer-plugins, elimi

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread david
On 05/06/2012 10:33 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 07/05/12 09:20, Holger Marzen wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I made my first song with rosegarden. I chose Rosegarden because: >> >> - MIDI-Sequencer >> - Can use Synthesizer-plugins, eliminating latency and jitter compared >> to internal MIDI >> -

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 07/05/12 09:20, Holger Marzen wrote: > Hi all, > > I made my first song with rosegarden. I chose Rosegarden because: > > - MIDI-Sequencer > - Can use Synthesizer-plugins, eliminating latency and jitter compared >to internal MIDI > - Can record and arrange audio > - Can use LADSPA-plugins for

[Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Holger Marzen
Hi all, I made my first song with rosegarden. I chose Rosegarden because: - MIDI-Sequencer - Can use Synthesizer-plugins, eliminating latency and jitter compared to internal MIDI - Can record and arrange audio - Can use LADSPA-plugins for audio (reverb, echo ...) What I don't need: - Create s