3.9. Rosegarden
Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
If you want to use it efficiently, D. Michael McIntyre (aka. Silvan) wrote a The Rosegarden Companion, a great little book about Rosegarden, and also a lot of very interesting and good written other supplemental tutorials from Silvan.
 | Most of the time Rosegarden which is distributed with common GNU/Linux distros was not built with DSSI support. Manually rebuilding it is the only way to have DSSI plugins working with it. |
You can either download the stable archive, or decide to build it from the SVN: see here for information. To get the current SVN trunk, do the following:
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rosegarden/trunk/rosegarden rosegarden
I use the SVN trunk of Rosegarden. And when things go wrong I edit Rosegarden files (.rg) manually to repair them. Rosegarden's files are XML files compressed with gzip[1].
$ cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde-config --prefix`
With my configuration this step produces:
-- Found Qt3 (version 3.3.7)
-- Found KDE3 include dir: /usr/include/kde
-- Found KDE3 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found KDE3 dcopidl preprocessor: /usr/bin/dcopidl
-- Found KDE3 dcopidl2cpp preprocessor: /usr/bin/dcopidl2cpp
-- Found KDE3 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Program pkg-config found (/usr/bin/pkg-config)
-- Found LADSPA (/usr/include)
-- Program msgfmt found (/usr/bin/msgfmt)
-- KDE3HTMLDIR : share/doc/kde/HTML
-- KDE3DATADIR : share/apps
-- KDE3ICONDIR : share/icons
-- KDE3MIMEDIR : share/mimelnk
-- KDE3MENUDIR : share/applications/kde
-- KDE3L18NDIR : share/locale
-- KDE3EXECDIR : bin
-- Program kde-config found (/usr/bin/kde-config)
-- Program meinproc found (/usr/bin/meinproc)
-- Rosegarden 1.7.0-svn will be built for install into /usr
-- Configured to compile for release without debug information
Installation Summary
--------------------
Install Directory : /usr
Build type : Release
Use Qt/KDE precompiled headers: FALSE
Xft notation font support : TRUE
No LIRC support configured.
ALSA MIDI support : TRUE
JACK audio support : TRUE
LADSPA plugin support : TRUE
DSSI synth plugin support : TRUE
Custom OSC plugin GUI support : TRUE
Audio timestretching : TRUE
LRDF plugin metadata support : TRUE
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /usr/src/audio/rosegarden
Then build and install it. The process can take some time, so be patient :-)
$ make
$ su -c "make install"