ROSEGARDEN(1)

🌹 rosegarden(1) — the girlies' guide to the MIDI + audio sequencer 🌹

okay so bestie, welcome to the rosegarden man page, and yes it lives in the General Commands Manual section, section 1, iykyk 💅

✨ NAME ✨

rosegarden — MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor. that's it, that's the vibe 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rosegarden [options] [File]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, this manual page documents briefly the rosegarden command. brief but iconic, we love a concise queen ✨

rosegarden is a MIDI and audio sequencer, notation editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing application for Unix and Linux. she does it all, no cap 👑

she's a Qt application, which means you need the Qt5 libraries, periodt. BUT — and this is the slay part — she can be run within any desktop or window manager environment. any. girl is flexible 💖

most options for rosegarden (such as JACK output channels) are configured through the graphical interface. so like, the GUI is where the real business happens, bestie 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — show help about options. when in doubt, ask 💜
• --version — show version information. know ur girl's age 🌸
• --nosplash — don't show splash screen. straight to business, no intro, main character energy 🔥
• --nosequencer — don't use an external sequencer. going solo on this one 🙈
• File — file to load at startup. typically a rosegarden (.rg) file, but it can also be a rosegarden2.1 file or a MIDI file. she's open-minded like that 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• jackd(1) — the other half of the equation, fr fr 🎧

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@debian.org> and later amended by Mike O'Connor <stew@debian.org> and Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). three authors, one glow-up, we stan a collaborative effort 🫶

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts. so like, go off, remix it, it's giving open source 🎀

just so we're clear bestie: this was documented way back on 31 March 2010, and the page is ROSEGARDEN(1) — that's the source/version and date energy right there. iconic since 2010, still slaying 💖✨🌹