On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:24 pm, Conrad Newton wrote: > I have not yet looked at muse, but I did briefly investigate > rosegarden4, and immediately tripped over the use of jack. Rosegarden does need JACK for audio, yes. If you only want MIDI and notation -- and when I say MIDI I include the ability to drive ALSA soft synths such as Timidity, qsynth or Fluidsynth -- then you can build it happily without JACK or run a JACK-built version without running jackd. Chris