Hi Ken, At the risk of giving a totally inappropriate answer - I use Noteworthy Composer. It's a Windows package and it's not free *dodges tomatoes* but it works reasonably well under Wine. I use it because I first got into digital music production on Windows several years before I got into Linux. I've now fully switched to Linux but after searching extensively for an equivalent notation editor with MIDI, but I haven't yet found anything I like, and habits are hard to change. Noteworthy is fast and simple, and doesn't do anything unless you tell it to. Just my opinion! Cheers, Jonathan On 08/18/2009 06:55 PM, Ken Restivo wrote: > I'm looking for a simple, fast, easy notation software. The goal is that I can very quickly input a melody line or riff, maybe overlay chord symbols on it, when learning new songs or writing them, so that I don't forget them. > > Something where I could scribble down "Fake Book"-style charts. Of course there's pencil and paper, but then I have to deal with a music stand and shuffling leaves of paper around. Since I have the laptop sitting in front of me anyway, if I had all my charts in there, I could just page through them, use find to search for them, etc. > > Rosegarden and the lilypond stuff is probably way too much overkill. It's not critical that it have MIDI in/out either, since the output device is going to be eyes-brain-fingers anyway. denemo confused me way too much; couldn't figure out how to do basic stuff in it at all. > > I've played around with nted, and it seems the easiest and closest to what I want, but even it tries to be too "smart" and sticks in things like dotted rests and stuff where I don't want them, and I can't figure out how to move notes in time once it decides to put them there-- frustrating. > > Any other options? > > Again, the typical usage is that a bandleader will sing or show me the melody and I need to note it down very quickly. > > -ken > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
