| Rosegarden is one of the most comprehensive Linux music software projects, and is the only Linux application to offer full composition and recording capabilities to musicians who prefer to use classical notation. Features - MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
- Piano-roll, score, event list and track overview editors
- DSSI synth and audio effects plugin support, including Windows VST effects and instrument support via dssi-vst.
- LADSPA audio effects plugin support
- JACK transport support for synchronisation with other software
- Ability to build and run without JACK, for MIDI-only use
- Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
- Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
- Triggered segments for pattern sequencing & performable ornaments
- Audio and MIDI mixers
- MIDI and Hydrogen file import
- MIDI, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML file export
- Clear, consistent and polished user interface
- User interface translations for Russian, Spanish, German,French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, as well as UK and US English
- Help documentation available substantially or entirely translated into German, Swedish and Japanese as well as English.
New in v1.7.0 - Track headers in Notation view (Yves, since rev 8355)
- Test to see if a newer version is available, to help users stay up to date when distros sometimes carry quite old versions (Chris, since rev 8374)
- New Welcome dialog that attempts to help you tweak your setup for best results (Chris, since rev 8374)
- Notation: The preferred stem direction in a chord around the middle line is down, which better meshes with LilyPond (Heikki, since rev 8381)
- Notation: The preferred beam position in a beamed group around the middle is below (Heikki, since rev 8383)
- Add icons for Add tempo and Add time signature in NotationView -> Composition menu (Heikki, since rev 8415)
- Move to Staff Above or Staff Below to make sorting out overlapping voice parts considerably easier (Chris, since rev 8545)
- Radically reformed grace notes now work correctly for the first time in Rosegarden's history, and are now easy to use (Chris, since rev 8557)
- Sync segments to track parameters (correct clef, transpose notation, alter key signatures, highest/lowest playable notes) available as option when using the load preset button in the Track Parameters Box, which greatly simplifies the process of converting a standard MIDI file into notation suitable for real musicians who play transposing instruments (Arnout, since rev 8583)
- "Convert notation for..." function added to notation editor to provide another mechanism for using the sync segments functionality (Arnout, since rev 8593)
- Expanded/corrected instrument presets database (Magnus Johannson, since rev 8597)
- Export markers to LilyPond (Jaakko H. Kyro, since rev 8618)
- Alternative shortcut for Play/Stop in laptop use: Ctrl+Return (Heikki, since rev 8626)
- New track parameters for exporting square, curly, and nested brackets to LilyPond, making it possible to produce true piano notation and complex orchestral scores properly for the first time, without hand editing of the .ly code. (Replaces the now deprecated "Export staff group bracket" option with this new and much more flexible scheme.) (Michael, since rev 8637)
- The transport mode setting is now stored with and restored from individual compositions (Philippe, since rev 8646)
- Export the new radically reformed grace notes into LilyPond syntax (Heikki, since rev 8648)
- Now ties can finally be flipped (Chris, since rev 8653) and the flipped ties exported to LilyPond (Michael, since rev 8655)
- Arbitrary dynamics exported to LilyPond as markups if they are not on LilyPond's list of supported dynamic types (Michael, since rev 8687)
- Manually repositioned rests (as when rearranging badly rendered overlapping voices) are now exported to LilyPond (Michael, since rev 8694)
- Set a quick playback position marker in the main window with Ctrl+1 and recall it with 1 (Philippe, since rev 8705) (Sets working visual marker in rev 8803)
- New variable height tracks finally make working with overlapping segments (eg. to contain concurrent voices for notation purposes) an easy and reasonable process, instead of the nightmare it has been for years (Chris, since rev 8740)
- Smarter selections in matrix and notation views now allow you to remove individual, previously-selected events without beginning the entire selection process from scratch (Michael, since rev 8744 (matrix) and 8748 (notation)
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