Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Notation: Score transmogrifies into grace notes

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

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 12:49 pm, William wrote:

Whoops.  I was pasting with ^V and must have hit some weird hotkey I don't 
know about.  It sent the message to my complete surprise.  Let's try this 
again...

Or actually, rather than reinventing the wheel here, why not see if the Studio 
section of my tutorial does anything to help your understanding.  If it 
doesn't, please say so.  It's entirely possible that I've taken too much MIDI 
experience for granted.

http://users.adelphia.net/~silvan/using-rosegarden/en/chapter-3.html#3

> By the way, how should one assign an instrument to a track?

I also notice that I haven't answered a question so simple as that in a very 
obvious way.  You do it from the Instrument Parameters box.  Once an 
instrument is assigned to an output device and channel, you can then assign 
that same instrument/device/channel to subsequent tracks.  I think this used 
to be more obvious in my tutorial before the rewrite, actually.

I'm going to crack down and do a good bit more writing on this in the next 
week or three, so if you have anything to say it would be good to hear it.

I can see after your post, and that little mishap helping the fellow with his 
keyboard, that perhaps I do assume that my target reader will be someone who 
has used Cakewalk or something and has been doing MIDI for 15 years, and only 
needs to relate what he already knows he wants to do to Rosegarden's 
interface and feature set.

You seem to be coming at this as someone who has only done piano stuff, and 
has no idea how anything else is supposed to work, so your perspective is 
welcome.

> Does RG understand the meta-data in soundfont files and is it thus able
> to display helpful instruments names instead of channel/bank/index numbers?

You have to import it from the .sf2 file, as I explain in chapter 3.

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