The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 12.04 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

Ted Felix and Tom “Tehom” Breton did the biggest part of the work that went into this release. Ted is a masochist who enjoys the challenge of cleaning up Rosegarden's enormous and complicated code in order to make it less buggy, and much more sensible. Tehom is a visionary who comes up with crazy complicated ideas, and then actually goes off to get them to work.

The most notable feature of this release is a feature we hope you will find to be completely transparent. Tom has labored for months to get through a gantlet of challenges and deliver automatic MIDI channel allocation. The main benefit of this feature is that you may move segments from one track to another without ever having to worry about the controllers in this segment conflicting with the controllers in that one.

• Primarily code cleanup, commenting, and simplification. Mainly focused on TrackLabel and TrackButtons.
• Composition Notification Project work. Trying to simplify and finish the CompositionObserver notification mechanism that is used by TrackButtons.
• Fix for bug #3466912 (r12743)
• Removed Eclipse configuration files.
• Fixed a crash when adding a track after going from record to stop. (r12776)
• Fixed a crash on add track, undo, redo, load rg sequence. (r12779)
• Fixed a track label clobbering bug. (r12799)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes. (r12815, r12816, r12842)
• Fixed a bug where icons were not appearing on the instrument popup menu. (r12824)
• Fixed a bug where two tracks with the same instrument could be armed at the same time. (r12843)
• Added some missing GPL license text. (r12850)
• Fixed a static init order bug that would cause playback to not work for some users. (r12903)