From: David T. <dav...@gm...> - 2008-12-04 14:21:55
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Hi Andrew, Thanks for the information. When I have tried UbuntuStudio in the past, my biggest complaint has been Timidity starting by default. I haven't taken the time to figure Timidity out and felt like it was getting in the way of my setup.. I have always used Zynaddsubfx and sometimes qsynth along with hydrogen for drums. Nice to know that they are keeping up with developments in Rosegarden. Dave On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Andrew Thorne <red...@ho...> wrote: > Hello Dave, > > I intend to install it on both of my work laptops during the Christmas > holidays. You can already get packages for Rosegarden 1.7.2 for hardy heron > 8.04 through www.getdeb.net/app/rosegarden I have been depending on these > for real paid work without any problems since September. I only upgrade > during the school holidays as it gives me enough time to downgrade again if > it all goes wrong. > > There is also a binary here: > http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Rosegarden-Download-2505.html but > I haven't used this, so I have no opinion on it. > > Having tried pretty much everything available I will encourage everybody to > support Ubuntu Studio. It seems to be the best chance we have of a > well-supported frequently-developed multimedia system. I'm just a user, > never been a developer, but I'll advocate Rosegarden, > Rezound, Lilypond, Jack and Ubuntu Studio to anybody. Somebody tell me why > I'm wrong please. > > Best wishes > > Andrew Thorne > > > > *From:* David Tisdell <dav...@gm...> > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:16 PM > *To:* rosegarden-user <ros...@li...> > *Subject:* [Rosegarden-user] UbuntuStudio 8.1 > > Hi All, > > Has anyone tried the new Ubuntustudio (8.1)? Is it an improvement over 8.0? > > I have been doing most of midi/audio work in JAD which I am largely > satisfied with but the development is not keeping pace with newer versions > of Suse (upon which JAD is based Stable JAD is based on SUse 10.2 1.1 Alpha > on 10.3 and current version of suse is 11.0) whereas UbuntuStudio seems to > keep up with the standard Ubuntu release cycle. > > Is it keeping up with Rosegarden updates? > > Thanks. > > Dave > |