Rosegarden file

A Rosegarden composition file. The audio files themselves are not stored in the Rosegarden composition file; instead you are expected to keep track of their location on disk yourself see Audio segments.

When you need to transfer a project from one computer to another, or to a friend or colleague, this can be inconvenient. This is where Rosegarden Project files are useful. A Project file contains your composition, all of the audio files it uses, any further data files required for plugins used in the composition, and any additional files you may want to include, all in one big bundle. Note that Rosegarden Project format is an interchange format, not an archival format.

Although Rosegarden composition files are very carefully checked for compatibility from one Rosegarden version to the next, no long-term guarantees are made for the Project file format.

Rosegarden can export to and import from a number of other file formats. Some of these are described here; see also Printing for information about LilyPond file export. Together with a suitable orchestra file not supplied , this can be used to play the composition through Csound.

Note that not all data in the Rosegarden composition necessarily can or will be saved in the Csound format. This can then be processed by the Mup music publication system, although it is likely that the file may need some tweaking to get really good quality output.

Note that not all data in the Rosegarden composition necessarily can or will be saved in the Mup format. This can then be used with any music software that supports the MusicXML format. Note that MusicXML support is experimental and has not been well tested.

Rosegarden can import h2song files created by the Hydrogen drum machine. These are imported into a skeletal MIDI-style structure with one track per pattern.

The audio samples they use are not imported. Producing a score from performance data is a hard task, and in most cases it's unreasonable to expect a default printout based on MIDI data to be very readable.

You should use the notation editor to tidy up the score before printing. See also Notation from performance data. Rosegarden uses LilyPond as a back-end for printing scores.

LilyPond is music typesetting software that reads a specialised text file format and produces high-quality typeset output. Rosegarden outputs LilyPond files that in turn are turned into pdf files for printing. Rosegarden has the ability to insert special exportable directives and track parameters that provide access to LilyPond features. LilyPond Options. Rosegarden's main layout is similar to many other popular sequencers.

It is based on a track structure — the main window shows a track editor with a list of tracks and their associated instruments down the left hand side. Tracks govern what sort of segment you can create in a particular place. If you create a segment on an audio track, it will be an audio segment, no matter where that segment subsequently moves.

You can set track parameters to pre-select various segment properties at the track level, and to exercise fine control over MIDI recording. Tracks can be assigned to a range of MIDI, plugin synth, or audio instruments. In the picture above we see three segments in the track editor on tracks assigned to General MIDI instruments. The button area to the left of the segment canvas shows you the track number, mute and record status, and the label of the track.

You can mute or unmute a track by clicking on the blue LED-style button, and select a particular track as a record target by clicking on the yellow one. To change the track label, double-click on it.

Otherwise, as in this picture, the instrument assignments for the tracks are shown instead. Each track must have an instrument assigned to it, in order to be heard. By default the first 16 tracks are assigned to the 16 instruments of the first available MIDI device, and the next 16 tracks are assigned to audio. To change the instrument assignment for a track, right-click on the track label: a pop-up menu will appear from which you can select among all the available instruments.

An instrument can be understood as a single channel on a MIDI device, or as a mono or stereo audio output or an audio synth plugin. You should assign tracks containing note data to MIDI or synth plugin instruments, and those containing audio to audio instruments.

You can assign more than one track to the same instrument, in which case the multiple tracks will produce sounds in the same way MIDI tracks playing panned to the left with a flute, or audio tracks playing with the same volume levels, through the same stack of plugins. You can change various properties of the instrument associated with a track using the Instrument Parameter Box.

This is where, for example, you would set a MIDI instrument to use a particular patch and so produce a particular sound piano, strings etc.

See the Studio section for more about instruments. To create an empty segment, in order to begin composing something new, you need to use the pencil tool which is normally the default active tool when you first start Rosegarden. Click on the pencil on the toolbar, and then click at the point where you want the segment to start at the correct height for the track you want the segment to be on, and at a distance across the editor window corresponding to the correct time and drag rightwards until the segment is the right number of bars long.

You can also create segments using the Select tool , by clicking and dragging either with the middle mouse button, or with the left button and Ctrl held down. If you want to draw a segment longer than the visible portion of the canvas, the canvas will scroll automatically once you reach its edge. If you keep dragging past the end of the entire composition, you can keep dragging, and will push the end marker right along with you.

This is a welcome contrast to earlier versions of Rosegarden. Usually each new segment starts on a barline and extends bar by bar, but this snap-to-grid effect can be prevented by holding down Shift while clicking and dragging.

New segments are created in a yellow colour, with a treble clef by default. You may wish to jump ahead and have a look at track parameters to explore other possibilities.

The track will automatically expand to accommodate this new segment. This is especially useful for some situations involving music notation. Once you have created a segment, you can then begin editing using the matrix , percussion matrix or notation editors.

To use one of these editors, either double-click on the segment, or else click with the right mouse button and choose the editor you want from the context menu. If you are intending to record from a MIDI device or audio input, you don't need to create a new segment to record into first — each separate recording always goes into a new segment, created automatically during recording. An audio segment contains recorded or sampled audio data, instead of editable note-event data.

Rosegarden allows you to record, play, arrange and split audio segments, but does not contain audio waveform editing facilities. To create an audio segment, you can record from an audio source onto a track assigned to an audio instrument, or you can work with existing WAV files.

These are available from the main toolbar: first select the tool you want from the toolbar, and then click and drag on the segments on the main canvas. The select tool is actually a multipurpose tool: it can be used to select, move, copy, resize and create segments.

The most obvious use is selection: select a single segment by clicking on it with the select tool, or select several by clicking with Shift held down, or by clicking in an empty area of the window and dragging out an area. To move segments with the select tool, simply click and drag on the segment. To create copies, click and drag with Ctrl held down. To resize a segment, click and drag on the right-hand edge of the segment. To create new segments, click and drag on an empty area either with the middle mouse button or with the left mouse button and Ctrl held down.

The select tool doesn't replace the other tools completely though — sometimes you need to be more precise about which operation you intend, particularly when working on small segments.

To move a segment to a different start time or track, use the move tool and click and drag on the segment you want to move. If you hold down the Ctrl key while dragging, the segment will be copied instead of moved. To resize a segment, use the resize tool and click and drag on the right-hand end of the segment.

Resizing a segment has the effect of extending or shortening it, by subtracting some of its contents or adding silence at the start or end. If you hold down the Ctrl key, the segment will be rescaled stretched or squashed instead of extended or shortened.

For both move and resize you can hold Shift for fine positioning, to avoid snapping to a particular grid position. Resizing a segment normally makes it shorter or longer by subtracting content or adding some extra space.

However, by holding the Ctrl key while resizing, you can instead stretch or squash the contents of the segment. For segments that contain MIDI events, this re-spaces the events so that they are spread across the new segment's duration, playing back faster or slower than before but in the same relative proportions.

For audio segments, this time-stretches the audio, altering its played speed without altering its pitch as would happen if the audio was simply played back faster or slower. Time-stretching usually adds some audible artifacts as well, so the quality of your results may vary. Rosegarden does not alter the original audio file when time-stretching an audio segment, and if you rescale the same segment repeatedly it will always work from the original file instead of accumulating timestretching artifacts with each rescale.

You can rescale both mono and stereo audio. You can use the split tool to split a single segment into two separate segments. To split your segment, select the split tool and click on the segment you wish to split.

By default segments are split on the closest barline to the cursor, but this can be prevented by holding down Shift while splitting the segment. This function works slightly differently depending on whether the selected segments contain audio or MIDI data. For MIDI segments, it simply splits the segment everywhere that a full bar of silence occurs. If the music in the segment consists of two separate parts e. If this is selected, Rosegarden will attempt to track the two parts as they move up and down, usually doing a slightly better job of separating out notes that were intended to lie in the two separate parts.

If you have recorded events from more than one MIDI channel or device into the a single segment, you can use this function to split them into separate segments afterwards.

Select the channel or device whose events you want to split out, and the segment will be split into two segments, one containing events from the selected channel or device and the other containing the remaining events.

You can use either any text editor you feel comfortable with or any spreadsheet able to export in CSV Comma Separated Values format any spreadsheet should be able to do this.

Empty lines are ignored; You can add comments in any reasonable place. Comments start with the " " character and continue to the end of line.

The list of the parameters is as follows:. The second one is the MSB, it is a integer between 0 and ; The third one is the LSB, it is a integer between 0 and ; The fourth one is the program change number, it is an integer between 0 and remember, this is displayed as 1 to in Rosegarden and in your manual ; And finally the last one is the program name.

If you want to save yourself some time and make sure that the data entered is correct you may proceed as follows:. You can do it from xpdf if the pdf allows it sadly the Yamaha manuals don't! Save the pastings into a text file. If you can't then you are down to a qute tedious process: use ps2ascii to convert to text.

Finally edit the text to transform it into a format as described above. It is still a tedious process but maybe less so than entering all programs from scratch. Note that MusicXML support is experimental and has not been well tested.

Rosegarden can import h2song files created by the Hydrogen drum machine. These are imported into a skeletal MIDI-style structure with one track per pattern. Updated Over a year ago. Last revision More than a year ago.

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