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<span class="application">Rosegarden</span> is a <span class="acronym">MIDI</span> and audio
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sequencer and musical notation editor. Rosegarden allows you to
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record, arrange, and compose music, in the shape of traditional
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score or <span class="acronym">MIDI</span> data, or of audio files either imported or
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recorded from a microphone, guitar or whatever audio source you
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care to specify. You can use Rosegarden to write, edit, and
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organise music to create a composition, which you can then
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synthesise, add effects to, and mix down for burning to CD or
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distribution on the web. Rosegarden also contains professional
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notation editing support for high quality printed output.
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<span class="application">Rosegarden</span> is designed to look and
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act in a manner familiar to experienced users coming to Linux
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from other platforms, whilst also being accessible and friendly
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to users new to music software generally.
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</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="intro-handbook"></a>About this Handbook</h3></div></div></div><p>
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This handbook summarises the capabilities of <span class="application">Rosegarden</span> and
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provides a reference for some of the concepts involved. It's
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designed to make sense either read in order or used as a reference
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to the concepts and functions available in Rosegarden. If you
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would like to read a tutorial as well, <a href="http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/en/chapter-0.html" target="_top">you
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can find one here</a>.</p><p>If there's something else that you
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don't understand or require further help with, please visit
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<a href="http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/support/" target="_top">the
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Rosegarden website</a> for Frequently Asked Questions and
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mailing list instructions.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="intro-menufunctions"></a>About Menus and Shortcuts</h3></div></div></div><p>This handbook
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usually refers to the functions you can use in Rosegarden by
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describing where they live on the menus. For example, the
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function to add a single new track to the main track editor is
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<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenu">Tracks</span></span>-><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guimenuitem">Add Track</span></span>.</p><p>In many cases, this is not the only way to reach a
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particular function. In this case the same function is also
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available through the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T, and it also
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appears as an icon on one of the main window's toolbars. Both
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the keyboard shortcut and the icon can quickly be learned,
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because they are shown on the menu in Rosegarden alongside the
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name of the function. You should bear in mind that although we
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always give the full menu location in this documentation for
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reference purposes, it's not necessarily the best or most usual
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way to use a function, and you should keep an eye on the
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keyboard shortcuts or toolbar icons as well.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="intro-optional"></a>Optional Features</h3></div></div></div><p>This Handbook assumes
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that your Rosegarden installation supports all the features of
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which it is capable. Some of Rosegarden's features, including
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some very major ones, are actually optional when building a
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Rosegarden installation, depending on which other libraries and
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supporting code is available. For example, the whole audio
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subsystem is only compiled in if JACK libraries are available;
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synth plugin support depends on a number of other modules;
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etc.</p><p>These dependencies are documented in the
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Rosegarden README and configuration documentation. If you find
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that this Handbook refers to features not visible in the version
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of Rosegarden you're using, consult your configuration
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documentation or distributor.
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