Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb drew Roberts: > 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!). BTW, the author of noteedit started a new project now, the old noteedit url redirects to this page: http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml He's progressing quickly during the last few weeks, and it's capable of playing back via MIDI since several versions. There's even a .deb package available... > > > 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 I also like those programs a lot, especially runabc has a bunch of clever analysis tools for MIDI files. > all teh best, > > drew > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
