[Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 11.11, codename "Edelweiss" RELEASED

[D. M. M. <mic...@ro...>]

====== ROSEGARDEN 11.11, codename "Edelweiss" RELEASED ======

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 11.11 of 
Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.  
A long time in the making, this release combines a number of bug fixes with 
two major sub-projects that happened to come together right at the same time, 
and several completely new features as well.  It is probably our most 
substantial offering since the landmark 10.02.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

Ian Gardner and Yves Guillemot have worked together for nearly a year to 
invent, implement, and refine the new concept of linked segments, which allow 
you to maintain a master performance in one segment while copying it to other 
places, or even other tracks.

When manipulating segments in the main window, Ctrl+Alt+drag creates a linked 
segment from an existing one, and there is a new "Turn Links into Copies" 
entry on the Segment menu.  Repeated segments may be displayed in the notation 
editor (in gray), and depending on the state of the configuration option, the 
original segment may or may not be modified in notation from its repeating 
copies.  Redundant clefs and keys may be hidden automatically, within one 
segment or a chain of consecutive segments.  This new work also improves 
Rosegarden's long-standing problems with anacrusis in notation.

Tom Breton added several new features, and carried out a number of internal 
optimizations. "Composition -> Fit Existing Beats to Beat Segment" takes a 
beat track and adjusts tempo to put real time and beats exactly on the given 
notes.  "Segment -> Expand Block Chord Segments by Figuration" lets you define 
a bar of figuration and expand it for every block chord in a segment.  
Finally, "Edit -> Clear Range of Tempos" allows you to remove all tempo 
changes falling within a defined range.

Additionally, Daren Beattie, Alvar Udras, and D. Michael McIntyre formed a 
miniature version of the original porting team.  The 10.02 release saw 
Rosegarden transformed from a KDE 3 application into a Qt 4 application, but 
much work remained to be done to remove all lingering remnants of the old 
code.  With this release, Rosegarden improves its chances of long-term 
survival by eliminating its reliance on the Qt 3 support layer.  With these 
ties to the past removed at last, it should be much less involved when the 
future arrives, and we find ourselves needing to port to Qt 5.

===== New Features =====
  * Linked segments
  * "Turn Links into Copies" entry is added to the segment menu
  * Repeated segments may be may be displayed in the notation editor in 
several optional ways
  * Redundant clefs and keys may be hidden automatically
  * In the configuration dialog a new tab controls the preceding features
  * Changed the behavior of SegmentSplitCommand to ensure that if a segment 
was selected before being split, the two new split segments would also be 
selected
  * Fit to Beats; takes a beat track and adjusts tempo to put real time and 
beats exactly on the given notes
  * Erase Tempos in Range
  * Expand Figuration, which lets you define a bar of figuration and expand it 
for every block chord in a segment
  * Improved performance of VU meters
  * Linked segments can be used to create repeats with 1..n alternate endings 
(with some caveats)
  * Create Anacrusis automates a tedious sequence of steps, making it a snap 
to start pickup notes at precisely the right time, with all the following 
segments lining up properly

===== Bug Fixes =====
  * Fixed B#/Cb octave export problem in MusicXML and Mup
  * Fixed problem with segments repeating when they shouldn't have been
  * Fixed the solo buttons in the transport toolbars in the notation and 
matrix editors, and changed the behavior so that the solo button is in the 
same state everywhere, no matter what content is being displayed in a 
particular window
  * Fixed the settings amnesia problem with the main window parameter area
  * Fixed a bug where events beyond the end marker of the first segment in a 
join would appear in the joined segment
  * After joining segments, the newly created segment is now selected
  * Pitch tracker now tracks pitches when they are in octaves below notated 
with "ignore 
octave error" on
  * Pitch tracker honors "ignore octave error" flag
  * Default pitch tracker settings are no longer stupid
  * Flats were not cancelled on a C-maj key change
  * Rulers in notation were desynchronized when a segment was deleted while 
some zoom factor was in use
  * The "anacrusis problem" which was giving a broken notation when a segment 
in contact with a preceding one was not starting at the beginning of a bar

===== Available Languages =====
We have reached a point where we no longer have the resources to even attempt 
to maintain a regular translation program.

=====People who contributed to Rosegarden development for this release:=====
  * Niek van den Berg
  * Alvar Udras
  * Ted Felix
  * Daren Beattie
  * Tom Breton
  * Yves Guillemot
  * Ian Gardner
  * Nick Bailey

=====People who contributed device and demo files to the Rosegarden 
Library=====
  * Aere Greenway

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre