I tried it but it is not really scoring program. It may be one of the most well developed of the DAWs here with some scoring capability as an added plus. > Why no mention of Rosegarden? It's missing some features, obviously, > but it's still quite usable for scoring and printing of music, and has > some nice features for mapping/transposing instruments to defined > ranges. > > On 6/26/07, David Baron <d_baron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There was a thread on this a while back, the need for opensource or > > free/minimal cost alternatives to Sibelius and such on Linux. > > > > One can run Finale Notepad or various lower cost upgrades using Wine and > > this may be the best alternative if one can get the MIDI and printing > > working this way. > > > > For lack of a handy staffbook--and it is easier to simply grab a > > staffbook, a extra fine pen and a typex stick--I tried what I have on my > > Debian Sid box: > > > > Scoring: > > > > Notedit--KDE's scoring program will get the job done. Most functionality > > is there. Chord entry is very awkward and the ui needs more toolbar > > items. But it works and will export to most everything needed including > > abc which opens the door to many Windows and Linux programs that can > > print score, Lilypond, MusicTex and MusicML. > > > > Canorus--successor to Notedit. Too early for this one. > > > > Denemo--GUI for Lilypond. Too early for this one as well. Nice start but > > had to go back to Notedit to continue. > > > > Musescore/mscore--new boy on the block. Coming along nicely and will soon > > be the best around. Still work to be done, text field editing is > > nigh-impossible but this is the alternative to Finale and Sibelius to > > watch. Imported MusicML from Noteedit. > > > > MIDI keyboard to any of these is precarious at best. > > > > For printing (engraving when doing music): > > > > Lilypond--works well with its peculiarities. Not enough control of > > formatting when exporting from noteedit, et al. Denemo not ready so need > > to know its markup language to really use it well. It is supposed to be > > the standard. > > > > MusixTex--works nearly as well as Lilypond but does not handle UTF8, > > foreign characters out of the box. > > > > Musescore--one when sets the formatting parameters (not defaulted > > properly) produces very nice results. Its scoring is WYSIWYG once the > > formatting params are set up. Again, the one to watch. > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
