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Rosegarden v1.7.0
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Rosegarden is a MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor.
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http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
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Please keep an eye on the FAQ for known problems and workarounds:
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http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Frequently+Asked+Questions
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When you find bugs, first check whether a newer version of Rosegarden
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has been released yet; if not, please continue on to:
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http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/bug-guidelines.html
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Build requirements
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The big requirement is KDE 3.3, or later, or more specifically the KDE
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3.3+ development libraries (you don't need the whole KDE environment).
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Our code compiles with gcc-3.x and gcc-4.x.
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For MIDI support on Linux, you need ALSA 0.9.x or 1.0; for audio you
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need JACK 0.77 or newer; for synth plugins you need DSSI 0.9.x or
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newer; for synth plugin GUI support you need liblo 0.7 or newer.
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We have recently switched to CMake for building (having previously
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started out with autotools and then switched to scons -- sorry!).
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Please read the INSTALL file for details of how to build and install
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Rosegarden using CMake.
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Running Rosegarden
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Just run the "rosegarden" application (found in the KDE bin directory
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after installation). The sequencer process is started automatically
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when the gui is started, provided it has been correctly installed (by
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"make install") in the global KDE directories.
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If you have any problems running the application, review the
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instructions in the INSTALL file and consult the FAQ:
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http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Frequently+Asked+Questions
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If that doesn't answer your question, use the rosegarden-user mailing
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list on SourceForge.
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User documentation
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There is a lot of documentation for Rosegarden available through the
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Help menu. Go to Help -> Rosegarden Handbook for the reference
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manual, and Help -> Online Tutorial for a tutorial.
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SPECIAL NOTES FOR PACKAGE MAINTAINERS
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-------------------------------------
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DSSI
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Many distros released their packages of Rosegarden v1.0 compiled
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without the optional DSSI/synth plugin support. We received a lot of
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complaints on our lists from your users and ours about your packages
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being built without this feature.
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We would like to request that you please take whatever steps are
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necessary within the framework of your particular distro to ensure
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that Rosegarden is built with DSSI support, and ideally that some of
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the currently available DSSI plugins are also packaged for your
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distro. Thank you. For details on DSSI, see:
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http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
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Notes for developers
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We are actively seeking developers who are interested in coding new
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parts of the application, adding features, and fixing bugs. See the
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bug and feature request trackers at SourceForge for inspiration. If
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you intend to do anything, please discuss it on the rosegarden-devel
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mailing list (of course, providing working code will make your
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argument extra persuasive).
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Be warned that we tend to be fairly strict about code quality... as
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far as that's possible, given the not always superb standards of our
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own code.
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Developer documentation
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-----------------------
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All the documentation we have (not enough) is in the docs/
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subdirectory, including:
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docs/code/global_design.txt -- which classes do what, more or less
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docs/data_struct/units.txt -- how we store pitch and time
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docs/data_struct/sets.txt -- some terminology explained
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docs/howtos/alsa-notes -- brief notes about getting and installing the
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ALSA sound drivers (we recommend ALSA for use with Rosegarden)
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docs/howtos/artsd-mcop-notes.txt -- notes on how to get sound with aRts
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(not recommended!)
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Authors and copyright
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* Rosegarden is Copyright 2000-2008 Guillaume Laurent, Chris Cannam
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and Richard Bown.
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* The moral right of Guillaume Laurent, Chris Cannam and Richard Bown
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to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted.
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* Parts of Rosegarden are derived from X11 Rosegarden 2.1, which is
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Copyright 1994 - 2001 Chris Cannam, Andrew Green, Richard Bown and
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Guillaume Laurent.
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* For musical notation display Rosegarden uses pixmaps derived from
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the Feta font, part of the Lilypond software (http://lilypond.org/)
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which is Copyright 1997 - 2004 Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys.
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* Other major contributors include Randall Farmer, Ron Kuris, Hans
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Kieserman, Michael McIntyre, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, Heikki Junes,
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Stephen Torri, Magnus Johansson, Vince Negri and Martin Shepherd.
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See AUTHORS for more details, and the individual source files for
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copyright attributions.
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* The Rosegarden splash-screen image is Copyright 2007 D Michael McIntyre.
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Rosegarden is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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your option) any later version. See the file COPYING included with
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this distribution for more information.
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