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Rosegarden Audio/Midi Sequencer introductions

url:http://rosegardenmusic.com/

Rosegarden Audio/Midi Sequencer. Music creations without limit. Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), Is a perfect way to build up music instrumet by instrument. The Importans of building up the midi song with structure are important becouse when you try to export the midi file to other then rosegarden, will make the chance for the midi file to work on others computer, synth/keyboards and so on much biger. With Rosegarden follows it a easy way to do this as you can se below:

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That is okay to use, IF you held your project to Rosegarden, My experience with this is when you try to export your midi to other aplications, something will not work as you attend to.

This can sound difficult and time consumed, but if you are bit structured, and made the setup file at hand, you have everything ready for your next project without any delay. I have made ready one file like this for you, just download it(you find it below) i have also made a guide how to use this. with structure on your midi i mean the following thing: you set the standard on every midi file you made where you put your instruments. the example that follows on my file is:

Track 1 = piano

Track 2 = Bass

Track 3 = Guitar (muted, clean and so on)

Track 4 = Melody

Track 5 = second voice

Track 6-9 = here you can set up, strings, clarinet, obo, sax, and so on.

Track 10 = Drum, this is always drums, this is standard in GM setup.

Track 11-16 = same as 6-9.

If you follows this setup on your every midi sound, there will not be any problem to made new melody.

Instrumental index.

And that was the index of the instrument, below you have the index overt the Percussive instruments (drums)

No.: representing the Programchange

Midi setup

Midi setup, in this case midisetup.rg file will i show you how to change settings. I will introduce you to some controllers that you will find usefully to your midi setup

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with this out of the way, you have setup a structured setup of the midi segment that tells your synth/keyboard what it should do. And then you simply can export the midi to any devices you want, even mobile phone.(if the mobile supports polyfonisk midi)

here you can download the finish setup file

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how to change bank select.

Sometime you wish to use different sounds on your Synth/keyboard that not in the GM standard, then you have to use controller that take care of this. Controller 32.

This functions are taken in use if you also want drums on other tracks then 10. Example percussion effects on tracks 16, that my favorite tracks to use for this functions. Then with controller 32 on data1, and number 4 on data2, changes what track 16 should do, in this case drums. And then with program change 57, will that track change to effect kit.

Controller 0 and 32, with number 0, is gm standard, use it on tracks 1-9, 11-16

Controller 0 and 32, with number 1-127 are those different banks, used on track 1-9, 11-16

Controller 32, with number 4, are for mine synth drums, that is use for standard on track 10, and on special need on any track you to your liking.

Yamaha keyboard with Gm2/Xg have some more options, i recommend you to read the manual that gives you the complete overview of the instrument on your keyboard, and there also says what banks the instrument exist on.

Let me take an example:

my keyboard have a instrument on controller 0(MSB) on value 8, and in controller 32(LSB) on value 1, and last on program change 3.

so the following is,

controller 0 with value 8

controller 32 with value 1

and last the program change with value 3

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the order on when controller 0 and 32 and program change comes are important

remeber that controller 0 and 32, have to come BEFORE program change.

i have included this in the standardupsetfile.

How to make rosegarden to automatical put controller and program change in the start of your segment, for exported midi

This is actually something i just found out. You use the intrumentparameter to have the reverb, volume you want, and then the trick is to press a key on your keyboard when rosegarden count up for you, so you actually get a note in the counting in before record. This you can do on every segment. And then when you export the song to midi, the info will automatical been put inn there, the only thing is that you must load the new midi file, and remove the note you dont need.

how to add a new midi device

As i said, this is not nessesary if you just held this projekt as a rosegarden file.

All synth have many sounds, and you will not get to all the sound that are awailable with the GM only on the quick instrument parameter pick, so if you follow this way you can try to add your synth/keyboard as your default device, and take in use all sound that lives in your keyboard/synth. New devices are added on new releases of rosegarden, so if you not find your own device here, you can just wait to se if it will show up, or you can help the rosegarden project and make the instrument indexing your self, and simply send the *.rgd file to them, and at the same time join the rosegarden list: http://rosegardenmusic.com/support/lists/

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Placing your audio file for your new project

It is very important to be strict when it's comes to where you placing your recording live instruments, and vocals, because without that, you will after a wile get problem to find what files you are working with, it's not impossible but without any structure on it, you will use allot of time find it. So lets say you have made you self a new midi melody "shallala", and you want to record your vocal on it, then you just remember to make a director that has the same name as your melody, and place your recorded audio in there.

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Choose --> "composition" ---> and then "edit document properties"

How to sign your melody

You want to tell everybody the you have made this tune, so belove you se how you can add what the song name is, who has composed it

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How to use Score editor to set controllers

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