Rosegarden
1st June, 2009
AOE Media provides development sponsorship
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2nd February, 2009
Release 1.7.3 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!

Tour 3: Notation

Rosegarden includes a powerful notation editor – essential if score is your preferred way to compose, or just to give you a different view on your work.

You can edit notation at the same time as any of the other standard editing windows, and Rosegarden unobtrusively keeps everything up-to-date for you.



Unlike other MIDI sequencers, Rosegarden really knows about notation, storing details of the musical structure and presentation far in excess of what can be described in MIDI. And Rosegarden can even tidy up recorded notation using a powerful heuristic notation quantizer, without losing the original performance timings.

You can prepare printed scores, editing and previewing in a clear multi-page layout...



... and then print directly, what-you-see-is-what-you-get – or, for some of the highest quality typesetting anywhere, export straight to the LilyPond system:



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