Getting started with Rosegarden
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If you're not already into MIDI, this may well be the first time you've come
across MIDI, soundfonts, JACK, etc. These tools can be quite hard to get
working on an existing desktop system if you are unlucky.

An easy way to get started with Rosegarden

 * Install the rosegarden and qsynth packages, ensuring that you also install
   at least one soundfont:
   ``apt install rosegarden qsynth fluid-soundfont-gm``

 * Start qsynth and select the soundfont of your choice under setup:
   Setup → Soundfonts → Open → ``/usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2``

 * Restart jackd from qsynth with the "Restart" button.

From now on, getting rosegarden to work will be:

 * Run qsynth which will automatically start jackd as your user

 * Now run rosegarden


Troubleshooting
===============

 * While jackd is running (from qsynth), no other programs can make sounds
   including anything using pulseaudio. It is possible but to configure
   these two to work together but it is not the intended setup to mix a
   professional-level low-latency sound system with a simple desktop sound
   system.

 * If jackd can't start, saying ``The playback device "hw:0" is already in
   use`` check what other sound-producing programs might be running in the
   background. For a desktop machine, a text-to-speech engine like
   speech-dispatcher might be running as part of an accessibility framework.
