From: Adam Y. <ada...@ho...> - 2004-01-30 15:49:52
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I'm writing this email in the hopes that some Rosegarden users or developers can offer me some advice. My wife is a musician who uses Finale quite frequently to do her scoring. She's using an older version (Finale 2001). I'm interested in replacing Finale 2001 with Rosegarden for her (primairly because it's the last app we need Windows for!) My question is this, is the current release of Rosegarden pretty much able to match what Finale 2001 can do - especially in the area of producing musical scores? Should I invest the time and effort needed to switch her over or should I wait? Again, my question primairly has to do with the scoring capabilities that Rosegarden has and I'm not so much concerned with comparing the curent release of Rosegarden to the current release of Finale, but comparing the current Rosegarden with Finale 2001. With Finale 2001 she can attach her keyboard via midi on the sound card and input her notes that way. I'm hoping that Rosegarden can do this in a compreable way (or even a better way) than Finale 2001 can. If it can, I will most likely try and start the transition for her over to Rosegarden. Thanks so much for your advice. _________________________________________________________________ High-speed usersbe more efficient online with the new MSN Premium Internet Software. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1 |
From: William <ros...@li...> - 2004-01-30 19:24:37
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Adam York wrote: >I'm interested in replacing Finale 2001 with Rosegarden for her (primairly >because it's the last app we need Windows for!) My question is this, is the >current release of Rosegarden pretty much able to match what Finale 2001 can >do - especially in the area of producing musical scores? I have a lot of experience with using Rosegarden. These are my conclusions. There are two completely different and mostly unrelated versions: the current version RG 4 and the old version RG 2.1pl4. Although I think RG 4 is an excellent open-source music project, I don't think the RG 4 notation editor is yet equal in terms of reliability and features to Finale 2001 or other commercial music notation editors; the RG 4 notation editor crashes extremely often and some things are impossible to do, e.g. you cannot delete time signatures or delete clefs. However, RG 2.1pl4 has a basic but very reliable notation editor. With RG 2.1pl4 it is possible to connect a MIDI keyboard to a PC, play music on the keyboard, record it in RG2.1 as MIDI (or import existing MIDI files), edit it as music notation. The RG2.1 music notation editor doesn't crash often but it is much less powerful for notation editing than Finale 2001. Nonetheless, I find I can get the benefit of the more sophisticated score editing in RG4 by using the more reliable RG2.1 score editor, as a first step, to record from a MIDI keyboard and to edit a rough draft of the musical notation, and by doing follow-up fine-tuning of the draft notation in RG4's score editor (which is so buggy it is better not to use it much for editing) and then printing the resulting score from RG4 because the RG4 score looks much better. You can find a link to RG 2.1pl4 on the main Rosegarden website http://rosegardenmusic.com/ (see http://rosegardenmusic.com/2.1/) To run it you must use the OSS sound driver (do not use the ALSA sound driver because its OSS sequencer emulation is broken for MIDI recording). > Should I invest the time and effort needed to switch her over or [...] wait? No, wait and see. I think, given the enthusiasm and talent of Rosegarden's developers, it is only a matter of more development time before Rosegarden 4 becomes the best music notation editor (and MIDI sequencer) available. William |
From: Glenn M. <cla...@pa...> - 2004-01-30 20:58:05
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> > > >No, wait and see. I think, given the enthusiasm and talent of Rosegarden's >developers, it is only a matter of more development time before Rosegarden 4 >becomes the best music notation editor (and MIDI sequencer) available. > >William > > To be perfectly honest, Sibelius is my final must have Windows app. If I was to put anything on a wishlist is that an open source music notation editor would follw the form and layout of Sibelius. It's become the notation editor of choice in schools and universities so it would be nice if someone could pretty much clone it. So I'm waiting too. > >------------------------------------------------------- >The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 >Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration >See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. >http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn >_______________________________________________ >Rosegarden-user mailing list >Ros...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user > > > > |