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