On Monday 15 October 2007 01:56 pm, David Baron wrote: > > tim hall wrote: > > > Would Rosegarden be any better? > > > Or even timidity? > > > > > > I don't know Lilypond, so this might be a stupid suggestion. > > > > If the tunes are really simple, and if the students aren't > > afraid of text files, they can use abc format. There is a > > Linux program to map abc to midi. I would think that's about > > the simplest and least resource intensive way to create > > playable midi files. However, it's not the most > > intuitive. > > I missed the start of this thread. If you are interested in entering > musical notation (scoring) and exporting MIDI, well Rosegarden is not the > best choice, is too heavy and its scoring is not easy to use. Denemo is > simply not ready to play. > > Try good old kde noteedit (awkward but effective) or the new and very nice > musescore (mscore, is WYSIWYG and does not need lilypond to print, the new > one on the block and just gets better and better!). I found the abc programs I was thinking of: Runabc.tcl http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html and: tkabc http://moinejf.free.fr/ A whole bunch of ABC stuff: http://www.abc-notation.com/abcapp/list.html?phrase=&system=all&function=Playback all teh best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
