| Rosegarden | |
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 Rosegarden 10.02.1 screenshot | |
| Developers | Chris Cannam, Richard Bown, Guillaume Laurent, et al. |
| Stable release | 25.12[1]  / 3 December 2025 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | BSD,[2]Linux |
| Type | Digital audio workstation |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[3] |
| Website | rosegardenmusic |
| Repository | sourceforge |
Rosegarden is afree softwaredigital audio workstation program developed forLinux withALSA,JACK andQt4. It acts as anaudio andMIDIsequencer,scorewriter, andmusical composition and editing tool.[4] It is intended to be a free alternative to such applications asCubase.
Software synthesizers are available as a plugin, and it is possible to use external MIDIsynthesizer, hardware orsoftware (such asFluidSynth,TiMidity++ or Yoshimi) in order to make any sound from MIDI compositions. Recent versions of Rosegarden support theDSSI software synthesizer plugin interface and can use some WindowsVST plugins through an adapter. As of version 24.12LV2 plugin beta support is provided. Connection to software synths is provided viaALSA MIDI.
The current Rosegarden program was originally named Rosegarden-4, to distinguish it from a previous program by the same authors called Rosegarden 2.1, which is now known as X11 Rosegarden. X11 Rosegarden is very limited but is stable on a wide variety ofUnix-like operating systems and other platforms such asOpenVMS. In contrast, because Rosegarden(-4) uses the Linux ALSA system, it only runs in a very limited manner on non-Linux systems.[5]
The Rosegarden project was started in 1993 at theUniversity of Bath. Rosegarden 2.1 (X11 Rosegarden) was released under theGPL in 1997; Rosegarden(-4) began in April 2000. Version 1.0 was released on February 14, 2005, and version 1.2.4 on July 14, 2006. In 2010, The version numbering was changed to reflect the release year, starting with 10.02.[6]
Rosegarden was developed up through 1.0 by Chris Cannam, Richard Bown and Guillaume Laurent.[7] Since then, each release has been developed by a different mix of core and contributing project members, including, but not limited to D. Michael McIntyre, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, and Heikki Junes. Bown has retired from the project, while Laurent has left to pursue his interest in porting to Mac OS X viaCocoa in an as yet unnamed spinoff project. As of 2023 Ted Felix has been leading development and releases with substantial support from Philip Leishman and other contributors.[8][9]
| Free and open-source | |
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| Proprietary | |
| No longer developed | |
