ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden 1.5.0 released

ROSEGARDEN 1.5.0 RELEASED

The Rosegarden team are happy to announce the release of
version 1.5.0 
of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical
notation editor 
for Linux.

   http://www.rosegarden
music.com/

This release contains a number of new features, notably
audio 
time-stretching support, and many usability improvements
particularly 
in the matrix view.

This is also an interesting release from a developer
perspective, 
because the source code has been completely reorganised into
a new 
directory structure with a far more consistent file naming
and 
organisation scheme.  Thanks to all involved with the
project for their 
hard work on this tedious business.

Finally, we have also changed the build system again, from
scons to 
cmake.  Please read the README and INSTALL files before
building.  
Hopefully this should be the last change of this nature for
the 
foreseeable future.

Changes:

* Add timestretching for audio segments (ctrl-drag the edge
of the 
segment)

* Add import and sample-rate conversion helper for arbitrary
audio file 
types

* Add helpful context help to status bar in track and matrix
editors

* Various improvements to the usability and friendliness of
the matrix 
editor: do a better job of remembering settings, make the
snap-to-grid 
behaviour more intuitive and pleasing, make better use of
cursor 
changes, add quick-copy by dragging with Ctrl pressed, fix
several bugs

* Add tempo tapping to tempo dialog (thanks to FNPave)

* Further fixes and enhancements to Lilypond export (thanks
to Heikki)

* New Invert, Retrograde, Retrograde Invert editing
functions (thanks to 
Heikki)

* Make transport window remember its previous location

* More helpful warning dialogs on startup if something fails
to start 
properly

* Change build system from scons to cmake (thanks to Pedro)

* Reorganise code into a new directory structure with a far
more 
consistent file naming and organisation scheme (thanks to
everyone)

For more information about Rosegarden and what it can do for
you,
please see

   http://www.rosegarden
music.com/

Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public
License.


Chris
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