[LAU] Note typesetting software (was: midi sequencers)

[David Baron]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, James Stone wrote:
> > > linux really need a good midi sequencer......
> >
> > Linux needs a lot of things.  I personally think the need for a
> > usable, visual, flexible notation program is more acute right now than
> > the need for a good sequencer.
>
> Did you see NtED (recently discussed on LAD):
>
> http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml
>
> Not sure if this fits the bill?

Lilypond is the standard and many scoring programs export files for this. The 
markup can be manually inserted or edited using "lied" (truthfully).

Denemo promises a WYSIWYG feeder to Lilypond. Not ready to play.

Musescore (mscore) is a WYSIWYG scoring program and does the typesetting (for 
music, we call this engraving) as well without Lilypond. This is a very nice 
up-and-coming program but is not stable enough to enter a whole song from 
scratch. Will be a Linux-Sibelius when the kinks are out!

Nted (a successor to noteedit--I have not tried the latest upgrade, but the 
previous one) is not ready to play.

Canorus (another successor to noteedit--make up your minds, folks) is also not 
ready to play.

Noteedit (no longer being developed) will get the job done allbeit with a 
fairly awkward interface for many functions. It will export to abc, lilypond, 
musicXML, musixTeX, etc. and will print via lilypond directly.

Rosegarden (one fairly complete linux DAW) also does scoring, supposedly well, 
but I find it too difficult to use.

So ... I still use noteedit-->lilypond
or
noteedit->musicXML->mscore

So I use no