[Rosegarden-user] 12.12 praises, but a small problem

[Insidious B. <ins...@gm...>]

Hello Rosegarden world,
I have recently become able to get Rosegarden to make sound (by
compiling it) and am also developing games for mobile phones which use
MIDI as the main sound production method so have come to get more
acquainted with Rosegarden. In the summer, I was having a hard time
getting what I wanted out of Rosegarden, which was microtunings. These
are notes or systems of notes different from the 12-pitches-per-octave
Western scale. I did see the pitch bend ruler, but drawing bends with
the draw tool was not precise enough and at the time I just gave up as
I mainly use Csound and ZynAddSubFX, which have native support for
alternate tunings. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when I downloaded
the 12.04 (and now 12.12) source code and compiled it on my Trisquel
5.5 64-bit netbook. After compiling, I actually got real-time sound,
which I had never experienced before and which is a thrill and great
help. However, I did encounter one obstacle: exporting to a MIDI file
seems to mess up a little bit. I created a file which had a chromatic
scale (all pitches included) of the system called 13EDO (equal
divisions of the octave). The native .rg was fine and ran to 8 bars,
but when I exported it to MIDI, and played it on one of my development
phones, one of the notes was dead, and the MIDI file was extended to
over a minute with just silence. In other words, more blank bars were
added to the MIDI for seemingly no reason. As I export the same file
now from 12.12 (I used 12.04 at the time) the "dead note" does not
occur again, but the file is still extended to a full 100 bars when
exported to MIDI.

I praise 12.12 for being the least crash-prone version of Rosegarden I
have ever used, but there is this small little niggle to work out. I
have provided both the .rg and .mid files and invite you to re-create
the .mid with its error.

For the record, I have another netbook that is still running
Rostegarden 11.06 Don Juan and it exports MIDI's without the said
error. I have been awkwardly composing in 12.12, and tranferring files
via USB flashdrive to my 11.06 setup where I export. It works for now
but may get tedious.

Once again, thank you all who develop Rosegarden. Now that I know how
to get precise pitch bends via the Event List Editor, I think
Rosegarden is the crown jewel of the Free Software MIDI editor world.
It is every bit as good as, say, Sibelius, which is what has been used
to make most of the micro-tonal MIDI examples on Wikipedia to date.

I plan to change that and contribute many additional pitch-bent MIDI
files authored in Rosegarden.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to working with you.