Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments. Version 1.6.0. is has just been released.
New features for 1.6.0:
* Diatonic transpose
* Fretboards
* Marker ruler usability improvements
* Multiple lines of lyrics
* Highlight overlapping notes in notation editor
* Better LilyPond output dialog, preview through Lilypond, print through LilyPond from segment and notation views
* In-place LilyPond header value editing in LilyPond option dialog
* Transposition of the staff shown in LilyPond output
* Show current segment colour in raw note ruler, permit cycling through segments on single staff in notation
* Menus and configuration dialog reorganised for easier access and greater clarity
* Infrared remote control: Support for IRKick
* Add track(s) in middle
* Use RTC timer when recent kernel and ALSA versions are detected
* Expanded documentation
* Reorganised configuration dialog into standard/advanced options
* Some revised example files
* Nice new splash screen
Significant Fixes
* Several “stuck notes” fixes
* Many Lilypond output fixes and compatibility updates
* Fix occasional unexpected disappearance of matrix!
* Fix failure to handle multiple plugins in submaster
* Safer file-save mechanism
* Fix race condition when simultaneous loading a file and showing a warning during startup
* Fix sometime crash when punching out of record mode while transport is rolling
* Fix over-eagerness to complain about system timer resolution even when an alternative timer has been explicitly chosen
* Fix failure to show plugin editor dialogs for plugins on submasters
* Fix MusicXML export so its output can at least be validated
* Several other substantial fixes