Random cool Linux thing: Rosegarden

[Tortanick]

Rosegarden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosegarden) is a mature and fully featured audio editor based on KDE allowing easy editing of sound and MIDI.

[qldit]

Good Morning Tortanick, yes it is really something isn't it.
Last time I showed it to a proffessional musician he was really taken with it, but as far as I recall the support programs for it were commercial.

As a studio system program with it's accompanying programs it is really good.

Cheers, qldit.

[Tortanick]

What do you mean by support programs? I didn't think it had any official ones, it was just really good at working with other Linux audio programs be it commercial or otherwise.

[qldit]

Good Morning Tortanick, yes it is an excellent program, but working with 16 channel (min) audio was a problem with emphasis and other more technical stuff.

With many artists recordings, the actual final recording is a mixture of a lot of separarely recorded tracks, and I do mean a lot!

For the application I was involved with, it needed a proffessional set of other programs addiditionally, to overcome various problems created in the various mixing processes, although "Rosegarden" would appear to be suitable, the pros had problems trying to use it and reverted to Yamaha console products and other complimentry suites.

For less complex recording and manipulation I was of the opinion it looked pretty good.

By the way there are other similar programs to "Rosegarden" available in that category.

I think "Rosegarden" was actually included in a couple of the free distros, but I can't remember which ones. It could have been Mandrake or SuSe.

Cheers, qldit.

[Tortanick]

I know its in Debian (so probobly Ubuntu as well) and its in PCLinuxOS.