Rosegarden vs Ardour

[ssj71]

I've never used rosegarden extensively, but I use ardour's midi quite a bit and it works fine for what I do which is usually drums and keyboards in midi everything else is audio. These days I record every midi part from my keyboard rather than manually drawing each note, and its perfect for that. I used to do fully sequenced drum parts and found it useable through heavy use of copy paste, region layering, and just getting used to the shortcuts.

When it comes down to it, you'll just pick one and probably stick with it 'cause its what you're used to. You might watch some tutorials on each and decide or just try a simple song in each then just pick and go.

[Ichthyo]

Wow, 8 year since the last reply in this thread
...but there are several more players than Rosegarden and Ardour that are actively developed and supported. Atleast Qtractor and MusE among open source DAWs and Tracktion, Bitwig, Renoise etc, among commercial DAWs.

probably should also have a look at the non*-tools (non-sequener, non-mixer, non-timeline...)

[luciorgomes]

IIRC, Ardour can record MIDI input in real time, but doesn't have any kind of step sequencer.

http://manual.ardour.org/editing-and-ar ... tep-entry/

[folderol]

Just my 2d (old money)
Rosegarden is much more friendly when you want to insert particular CCs in specific places. It also doesn't insist on a bank change with every program change, nor both MSB and LSB on bank changes. Oh, and it doesn't it get precious about NRPNs.

P.S.
it is still under active (albeit quite slow) development.

[Lyberta]

I use Rosegarden for 2 years now and it's pretty good for MIDI. It's very straightforward and I picked it up almost immediately without any tutorials. The only thing that really irritates me is Ctrl+Enter to pause the playback.