In all this ranting about how much Rosegarden sucks, I think everybody
is forgetting about the classic use case. Plug in an ALSA-supported MIDI
adapter. Plug a hardware synth into the MIDI adapter. Start Rosegarden.
If it doesn't make noise, diddle the Manage MIDI Devices dialog until
you find where your synth is. Depending on the synth, maybe diddle
channels too.
This doesn't require JACK, it doesn't require a soundfont, it doesn't
require a soft synth, it will work with any kernel, and this process
isn't dramatically different from any MIDI sequencer I used in the '80s
or '90s.
As far as the history of the age-old "Rosegarden doesn't make sound"
problem, it all started going to hell when hardware MIDI fell out of
fashion. This is a combination of Windows making everybody think their
new soundcard still had MIDI capability when it really didn't, and then
the general movement toward recorded audio, which meant most end users
didn't know a MIDI if it bit them on the ass, or care one iota about any
of that crap.
As far as that goes, how easy is it, really, to get sound out of a
comparable Windows app? First I have to download the proprietary control
client for my audio interface, then I have to figure out some
combination of controls that routes sound to the speakers. Now I have to
configure the software to use the ASIO driver. Then I have to slot a
VSTi plugin, and set it up to make the noise I want. None of that is
plug and play either.
But whatever. I hate this topic, and I'm going to duck my head and
concentrate my attention elsewhere. I just wanted to fire off this rant.
--
D. Michael McIntyre
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