Re: [Rosegarden-user] prerelease tarball to test

[D. M. M. <ros...@gm...>]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 3:50 pm, Richard Cooper wrote:

> Well, it seems that telling Jack to use my SB Live! 24-bit now completely
> locks up my computer (yes, no network activity or anything) so I guess the
> thing to do is use my motherboard audio which it seems to be completely
> happy with at the moment.

That seems prudent under the circumstances, yes.

> Now that my sound is working again, it all sounds just as lovely as it did
> before.  I think I see why the "channel out" is an instrument parameter
> now too.  I didn't notice before that the "Instrument" under "Device
> Parameters" wasn't what is the "Program" under "Instrument Parameters."

The channel was an instrument parameter in Rosegarden 1.0, according to my 
book.  It used to say "Channel," and now it says "Channel out."  This is to 
highlight the fact that it is the playback channel, as opposed to the 
recording channel, which can now be configured via the new "Recording 
filters" under Track Parameters.  (The text there should say "Channel in" I 
think, but I guess it's too late to change that now.)

The only change I can see in the parameter area is that you can now assign a 
device and instrument (note that instrument #1 does not have to be associated 
with channel 1) via the new controls in the track parameter box.

My actual user experience says something is vaguely different, but I can't 
figure out what it is.  Whatever it is, I got used to it already.

> The addition of that extra bit of indirection must mean that my older
> files no longer contain the necessary information, which is why I don't
> immeditately get an "instrument parameters" box.

I see no extra bit of indirection.  I'm not sure what you're talking about, 
but it's probably the thing I just said is "vaguely different," which I can't 
put my finger on one way or the other.

> It seems that when I 
> first load an older file, there isn't anything to choose in the
> "Instrument" box, and thus, no instrument parameters box, anthough some
> choices appear if I click the "Device" box and choose a new device, even
> if it is the same device.

Can you please send me an example file?  I have loaded files that are so old I 
made them before 1.0 came out, and I have loaded files from all times in 
between, and I can't repeat the behavior you're describing.  Everything works 
fine; even files from before we had user-configurable controllers, which 
trigger a warning message about how I should save them in the new format, 
because they might not be usable forever.

> #4  0x08382879 in RosegardenGUIView::updateMonitorMeters ()
> #5  0x0835315c in RosegardenGUIApp::slotUpdateMonitoring ()

That might be a clue.  I'm not sure what this code does.

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D. Michael McIntyre 
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