Rosegarden Wiki

This is the Wiki for the Rosegarden MIDI sequencer. Useful links:

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/rosegarden/ - Main downloads and support.
• http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ - Website with various info.
• https://github.com/tedfelix/rosegarden-official - Secondary source code and support.

If you wish to add any new documentation or update anything in here, please contact us on the dev mailing list to request access.

Note that developer pages are in the “dev:” namespace, formal project documentation is in the “doc:” namespace, and pages for translators are in the “translator:” namespace. General user pages do not have any particular namespace; call them whatever you like.

• Release notes for 24.12
• Release notes for 24.06
• Release notes for 23.12
• Release notes for 23.06
• Release notes for 22.12.1
• Release notes for 22.12
• Release notes for 22.06
• Release notes for 21.12
• 21.12 Testing Notes
• Release notes for 21.06.1
• Release notes for 21.06
• 21.06 Testing Notes
• Release notes for 20.12
• 20.12 Testing Notes
• Release notes for 20.06
• Release Notes Archive

Some of this might be a bit outdated. Contact us on the dev mailing list if you'd like to help work on the documentation.

• Keyboard cheat sheet for "Inserting notes and rests" February 5, 2024.
• Rosegarden Tutorial Part 1 (video on youtube) August 7, 2018
• The Rosegarden Manual (incomplete)
• Building Rosegarden from Source (bug reports are most useful against the development version)
• Notation Tips and Tricks (from 13.10)
• Using Thru Routing (from 16.02)
• Guitar MIDI Controller to Notation (from 22.12)
• Expand Figuration
• The New Rosegarden Companion (very old)
• HTML Tutorials (newer, but many are old)
• Documentation Around the Web
• Users Helping Users (before 10.02)
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Low-latency Kernels (probably obsolete)
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Pitch Tracker academic paper describing the pitch tracker
• Connecting Rosegarden to GrandOrgue from April 2020

• El manual de Rosegarden

• Le Manuel de Rosegarden

• Handbok Rosegarden

• Rosegarden manual (partial)
• keyboard_shortcuts_ja (partial)

• Richard Bown's talk at FOSDEM '23
• Featured articles on Rosegarden
• Projects using Rosegarden

• How to Add or Update a Translation

• Rosegarden Test Plans

Rosegarden Device File (.rgd) Developer's Guide

• Building Rosegarden from Source
  • Using git
  • Get Dependencies
• Using the Eclipse IDE to work on Rosegarden
• AddressSanitizer
• Release Process

• More Development Notes

• Wiki Syntax - DokuWiki
• Rosegarden Logo
• Donations