On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 05:26:01AM -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 05:37 PM, David Tisdell wrote:
> 
> > I think that feature has been broken for a long time. I posted about
> > that quite a while ago and was told by Michael that the person who
> > created that feature has been gone from Rosegarden for a long time.
> 
> Very true.  If we actually get it working as well as it did the last 
> time I used it, it's still a dubious feature.  It hasn't been touched in 
> maybe seven years?
> 
> If it's too badly mangled I'll probably just cut it loose.  Lots of 
> other features have died quiet deaths like that.

Only if "Cut it loose" doesn't mean forfeiting even a modicum of ambition.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to see Rosegarden blossom to its full 
potential (pun just presented itself)

For this particular feature -- it looks like something is just misaligned, 
maybe a trivial fix(?)

The "*.h2song" file seems like a very straightforward, non-cryptic XML format, 
which just needs a bit of undivided attention

Someone just needs to keep track of all the mappings -- Hydrogen's internal 
mappings: instrument id's and how Rosegarden tries to read them and map each 
instrument to a pitch value.  Doesn't sound hard.

The workaround I tried -- exporting to midi, then importing that midi to RG -- 
entails a similar task of tracking the mappings.

Back to "Cut[ting] it loose":  I really think a maximal symbiosis between 
Hydrogen and RG would add a tremendous amount of value and creative power.... i 
wouldn't give up on the idea. (Percussion is huge!!)... I know, a few years ago 
I was whining about proper percussion notation in RG... and I still haven't 
given up on THAT idea either! ;-))

I'd recommend perhaps adding a parenthetical "(Experimental)" to this item menu 
(and whatever notes commentaries necessary in the docs), but not to give up on 
it completely.


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