Re: [Rosegarden-user] And now for some GOOD news

[Abrolag <ab...@us...>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:45:46 +0000
"Chris Cannam" <ca...@al...> wrote:

> On 02/03/2008, Abrolag <ab...@us...> wrote:
> >  I was at the Linux Audio Conference this weekend. Guess which was the
> >  ONLY seqencer used any of the talks :))
> 
> I was there too -- and I had to go up and help out when Rosegarden
> embarrassingly failed to work during Julius O Smith's talk.  If you
> were there or watching the stream, I was the second of two people who
> went up to try to sort out the MIDI connection problem he was having
> at the end of his talk.
> 
> (I had hoped to say hello to you, but I forgot to drop you a line
> beforehand and I didn't manage to work out who you were.  I'm half
> expecting you to say "oh, I was the first of two people who...")
> 
> 
> Chris

Actually, I think you walked right past me! I didn't recognise you :(

I was sitting on the left edge of a row about 2/3rds back wearing a red
needlecord shirt (I was wearing my badge too). I was *very* tempted to
go up there, and might have done if you hadn't stepped in. Julius was
flicking through windows so fast I couldn't keep up, but it seemed
fairly obvious to me that Rosegarden hadn't found anything to send to.

Without being unkind, I think he'd got into a panic loop (which is so
easy when you're in front of lots of people and it's all going wrong).

He, like several others, had problems to start off with, trying to get a
screen that the projector would display properly. That probably gave
him the jitters to start off with - what is it about those projectors
that they seem to hate computer resolutions?

Although I'm more a mainstream musician myself, I thoroughly enjoyed
the conference. The talk I enjoyed most was the Australian megaphone
project - hey! I even asked a question :)

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk