Rosegarden
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1st May, 2008
Release 1.7.0 of Rosegarden is now available!
23rd March, 2007
Dave Phillips reviews Rosegarden for Linux Journal
15th March, 2007
The Rosegarden Handbook, the online help for Rosegarden, is now on the web as well as in Rosegarden!
1st July, 2005
The Rosegarden Companion by D. Michael McIntyre released in English.

Tour 1: Editing

Rosegarden gives you all the editing tools you need to get your ideas down as easily as possible. Start with a track-based overview, in which you just drag with the mouse to create "segments" and double-click to edit them, or right-click for more options.



All of the different editing windows – the matrix editor, notation editor and event editor – have the same common interface, in which you just sweep to select and drag to move, stretch and squash and so on. You can enter notes from a MIDI keyboard – whether by recording in real-time or entering a note at a time – or by "playing" the PC keyboard, or simply with the mouse.



You get unlimited undo and redo everywhere, and the standard editing tools like quantizers and the "intelligent split-by-pitch" are clear and consistent to use.



And liberal use of tooltips, configurable keyboard shortcuts and a help system make the whole thing even more straightforward.


Next: MIDI