Despite the early frustrations with Rosegarden, I’ve actually made some significant progress. By reading the great but simple tutorial on UbuntuStudio on how to set up things like JACK in Ubuntu, I am now able to use Rosegarden with the included synth plugins to actually play .wav samples and sequence it to resemble something that [...]

I’m annoyed. I’ve spent the whole evening tinkering with Rosegarden and after four hours I still haven’t managed to connect a MIDI note to a sound! Has anyone used this before? As a nerd, I feel insulted when I can’t master an application after so many hours of googling, configuring, and tweaking. I just want [...]