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Rosegarden is a digital audio workstation program written in Qt. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free alternative to such applications as Cubase.

## Installation

Install the rosegarden package. Be sure to install a MIDI setup first.

## Configuration

### Customizing keyboard shortcuts

The keyboard shortcuts in rosegarden can be customized by editing a set of XML configuration files. The first step is to download the default configuration files which are packaged with the source code, and place them in `~/.local/share/rosegarden/rc`. A simple way of doing this is to run

    $ cd ~/.local/share/rosegarden
    $ svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/rosegarden/code/trunk/rosegarden/data/rc

which will get the configuration files from the development branch of the source code.

Note: The above procedure gets the configuration files from the development branch of Rosegarden, which could possibly be incompatible with the stable release. If needed, the `rc` directory can be found at `data/rc` in the stable release's source tarball instead.

Keyboard shortcuts can then be set or modified by editing the appropriate file in `~/.local/share/rosegarden/rc`. For example, in order to map the `Space` bar to play/pause, edit the following lines of `rosegardenmainwindow.rc`

    ~/.local/share/rosegarden/rc/rosegardenmainwindow.rc

    <Action name="play" text="&Play" icon="transport-play" shortcut="Ctrl+Enter, Enter, Media Play, Ctrl+Return, Space" shortcut-context="application" />
    <Action name="recordtoggle" text="P&unch in Record" icon="transport-record" shortcut="" shortcut-context="application" />

## Usage

### With Timidity and Pulseaudio

Launch Timidity as a daemon before launching Rosegarden:

    $ timidity -iA

This way, Rosegarden will not launch jackd and you will still be able to hear sound from other running applications.

## See also

- Professional audio

Category:

- Music