Tuesday, December 21 2004 @ 12:00 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
I passed on this story last week, but I'm not going to make the same mistake twice. Multiple sources indicate that this software warrants mentioning. So, if you fancy being a musician or maybe you just call it a hobby, you might want to check out Rosegarden.
When it comes to producing music with Linux on a professional level, Rosegarden includes the basic features that you would expect to find in a commercial music sequencer and scoring package: MIDI and audio recording and sequencing, sound effects and synth plugins, and a score editor. The array of additional stuff this free program offers is staggering when one considers that it is, as of this writing, on the eve of its version 1.0 release.
"I bought a magazine the other day that had tutorials about composing with each of the most common commercial sequencers for Windows and Mac, and almost everything in it could have been done using Rosegarden," says Chris Cannam, a 32-year-old software engineer in London, England.
