Wouldn't it be great if finale was orted to linux
"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > On 05-Apr-99 David B.Teague wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Marcus Claren wrote: > >> Subject: Good notation program for linux > > > >> Does anybody know of a good music writing program for linux, > >> preferrably deb - packaged? > > > > Hi Marcus: > > > > I too need a program that will notate music as well as > > something that will take files from that notation and > > create MIDI files, and play them. > > > > I looked in the the Packages.gz files from the Debian > > Potato distribution. There many programs that refer to music. > > Some of these in .../dists/potato/contrib/... are > > musiclyr pmx > > > > In .../dists/potato/main/... some are > > lillypond abc2ps abcmidi rosegarden > > > > In .../dists/potato/non-free/... some are > > abc2mtex musixtex opustex > > > > I hope this helps, and if you decide to use one of these > > I'd like to know which one, and how well it does the job. > > Musixtex is a pure printing program and is capable of doing a fine job, > just as raw TeX is capable of fine text printing. However, creating the > input by hand would be for the masochistic. Better would be to use a > front-end which can do musixtex output. Rosegarden has a nice GUI and > can produce musixtex, opustex and (if I'm not mistaken) pmx output. > However, Rosegarden's musical repertoire is not complete nor always > correct; there is a new version under development but progress is > currently VERY slow (since the developers have other things on their > plates). > > Rosegarden can also produce MIDI output, within its limitations. > > At present, my preferred program for scoresheet printing is MUP > (see http://www.arkkra.com ). > > It has no GUI, so you type in text codes for the music, but this is > compact and fairly intuitive, and easily editable. The printed output > (PostScript) is superb (or can be made so); its good scoresheet > formatting is transparent and involves no detailed input from the user > unless some non-standard layout is required. > > I have encountered almost no serious limitation to what it can print > (except possibly piano reductions of polyphonic music: it is limited to > two "voices" per stave which may frustrate you in this context. Although > each "voice" can consist of chords, it is not the same). However, since > the source code is equally available, you could try making changes to > implement more than 2 voices per stave; but I have to confess that my few > attempts to do this have shown that the exercise is more complicated than > it looks ... > > It can also generate MIDI output. Its "default" MIDI does not sound > very exciting; it has MIDI directives which, I guess, a MIDI-knowledgeable > user could use to improve that, but I'm not so can't comment. > > MUP is shareware: to register a copy (and get a key to enable removal of > the "Unregistered Copy of MUP" watermark from everything it prints) you > should (and I have been happy to) send the authors $25. > > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 05-Apr-99 Time: 21:42:06 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
