Re: Do we want LV2 and jack-midi?

Hey all,

On 06/06/22 15:45, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > As a new release approaches, I think one of the latest threads about
 > synths, jack (midi) etc. re-prompts the longstanding questions:
 >
 > 1. do we want LV2 in Rosegarden?
 > 2. do we want Jack-MIDI?

First, lots of great feedback and opinions there, showing how everyone 
uses Rosegarden differently! :-)

I just wanted to clarify that from my point of view the above were 
really more open questions...

I was able to compose a complete soundtrack a few years ago using 
Rosegarden and interconnecting it with jack (transport, audi, alsa-midi) 
to software like Yoshimi, xjadeo, qmidiqrp, ardour, etc. and I really 
really do like the modularity of Linux for many different reasons.
I was hoping to structure and share my experience with this use case a 
bit better and present it at a LAC as I had done in 2011 (sic!) with 
composing a piece (and in that case rosegarden was a central software) 
but then COVID hit... :-/

And yes, I guess pipewire coming into scene might be something to look 
as it gains traction, adoption and updates.

My current set-ups are mainly using Rosegarden with yoshimi (works like 
a charm for me), and / or fluidsynth (especially for creating demos etc. 
for my band), writing/composing scores possibly to be imported into 
MuseScore or directly exported to Lilypond.
In some cases I've exported midi and re-imported it to Ardour when final 
to add quite a bit of actual audio.

So, great stuff and really good to see a user community discussing 
features and the future of RG ;-)

I'm wondering if, maybe after the next release, it would make sense to 
have some addendums to the current documentation which in some cases 
might be a bit dated, e.g. advising to use plugins, with especially DSSI 
not being the most maintained in distributions. Even the more 'current' 
formats like videos? I think this should be a user community effort and 
I always wondered if they'd be useful or not...

Lorenzo.