linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Message: 27 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:34:16 +0100 From: ben <brouits@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: NtEd To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <4992FE08.3050704@xxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Laura Conrad a ?crit : >>>>>> >>>>>> "ethan" == ethan a young <ethan.y.us@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>>> > > > > ethan> What has other's experiences been so far with these new and > > ethan> developing programs? > > > > I use lilypond and have used ABC in the past. You can use rosegarden > > or musescore as a frontend to lilypond, but I haven't been very > > successful doing it. I have an emacs program that takes MIDI keyboard > > input and puts lilypond notes in the buffer, and I can use > > point-and-click on the xpdf screen to get back to my emacs buffer. > > > > I don't claim that this is as easy to set up as a GUI would be, but > > given all the options you want for a full-featured notation editor, > > for me anything that works with emacs is easier to use than anything > > that doesn't. > > > > > Following the thread, i admit i still do not have made my choice: > i stared by using denemo with lilypond output, then switched to write > lilypond or ABC with vim, and have recently given a try with nted. I > noticed nted has a good midi-output, considering ornaments and other > expression directives. > - ben i was really excited when i first discovered lilypond, but it's intimidating to get started in (hah, this coming from someone who abandoned windows and went fully to linux on a whim... :) regardless, i don't know how to make lilypond work to produce scores...i tried with the jEdit front-end, but that never worked well. i haven't ruled out lilypond, but it seems like programmers are most comfortable using it, and i am no programmer... i really like the fact that NtEd is truly WYSIWYG...even Encore was never this good, and i had to trust the printer output because the display was often corrupted comparatively. Finale looked good, but i am biased against Finale and similar programs -- tried it and it was really complicated and unintuitive for me. mouse clicks and button presses often did not do what i expected them to! i never looked seriously at Rosegarden -- not to say it isn't a good program. i'm sure it is :) but i didn't want a full "music composition environment." by the time i enter music into the computer, it is fully composed in my head and/or on paper :). i suspect it is the same for many composers and musicians who spend most of their time off the computer, which is why i think a program like NtEd is so important. i just want something that can make beautiful scores without much fuss or a steep learning curve, but with a powerful editor so i can publish and archive my compositions in a semi-professional manner. what features is NtEd missing? I put it in a similar category as Seq24: it's a simple tool, but it does what it's supposed to do very well. I think it is aimed at a different audience than RoseGarden, though. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
