Re: [Rosegarden-user] new user w/a couple of questions

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Monday 08 August 2005 11:34 am, Norman Fay wrote:

> The main thing is that I can't work out how to get the program to sync
> to MIDI clock ot MIDI time code.  I have a bunch of half-completed
> pieces that I want to transfer across to Rosegarden, the midi parts
> shouldn't be a problem, as I can load them in as midi files, and tweak
> the tempo map if necessary, but the hard disc recorder will only
> operate as sync/clock master.  Obviously it will be much, much easier
> to transfer the audio tracks across  with the 2 machines synced, so
> can anyone suggest how I might manage this?

I can't remember the history of that feature.  I don't think it was finished 
for 1.0.  It's finished in CVS for sure, although I don't actually know the 
particulars of how to turn it on, or what to do with it, for that matter.

We're getting ready to do another release real soon now.

Um, it's on Settings -> Configure Rosegarden -> Sequencer -> MIDI 
[machine/time] Control Mode to turn it on.  What to do from there is beyond 
my experience, but you can set either one to master or slave.

> The other, more minor thing is that when I bring up the internal
> mixer, it shows a number of effect inserts, but no effect sends.  I
> have a few nice hardware effects that I'd like to use, so if there's a
> way to configure the mixer so that I can route the stereo out to  a
> pair of outs on the soundcard, and 2 or 3  effect sends to some of the
> other outputs, that would be great.

This doesn't seem possible off hand.  You'd need some way for Rosegarden to 
route audio to more than one external pair of outputs, and I don't see any 
way to make that happen.  You can create internal submasters, but they all 
wind up in the same place ultimately.

It seems you'd need some way to create new physical outputs and route audio 
instruments to those outputs rather than being limited to the existing master 
out or submaster choices.

Chris, care to weigh in on this aspect of it?

It seems like a reasonable thing to add, and something people like Norman 
could put to good use immediately, so maybe we should add more 
outside-connectable outputs, which could be routed to internally the same as 
the submasters.  Or some way to connect the submasters to outside ports 
perhaps.  I don't know.  I haven't had much sleep or food in the past 24 
hours.

> in key edit mode (as opposed to event list mode) I can move a note to
> the nearest quantise point but it doesn't appear to put up note data -
> changeable note position, note length and note velocity as it does on
> Atari Cubase - a useful feature!

Never having used Atari Cubase I'm not sure quite what you mean.

> Also, I configured the midi 
> interface, typing in the names of the instruments I use, but I can't
> figure out how to constrain each instrument to a certain range of midi
> channels - like I have a waldorf micro q that I use on channels 1-4,
> or a Wavestation that just receives on one channel.

There isn't any way to do that.  I think it's been requested before.

> Better still 
> perhaps, constrain an instrument to one channel, so I could make 4
> instruments for the Micro q - "Micro Q ch1", "Micro Q ch2" etc, and
> not have the channel selection part come up.

That bit is sounding insanely complicated to get right, and unlikely to me.

> Many thanks.

You're welcome.  It's always nice to see someone with some perspective from 
the outside world weigh in on how we're doing.  I haven't used a commercial 
package in ages, and my own setup isn't all that demanding either, so it's 
easy to lose sight of what this thing looks like in comparison to the rest of 
the spectrum of similar applications.

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