[LAU] Musical Score Editors - some advice for beginners

[Werner Schweer]

The latest "stable" MuseScore release is 0.9.5. There are also precompiled 
prereleases for some systems and an nightly build for all who want to track
bug fixes etc.

http://www.musescore.org/en/download

An explanation of the difference between the build can be found at:

http://www.musescore.org/en/handbook/comparison-stable-prerelease-and-nightly-
builds

Am Donnerstag 24 September 2009 17:33:33 schrieben Sie:
> > MuseScore is still being developed.
> >
> > Look at the sourcecode repository.....
> 
> Nice to hear from you. It has been a while.
> 
> Is there a new release/beta version around or are things mostly svn at this
> point. I would love to play with it some more.
> 
> For the post topic, my comparisons as of now (released versions):
> 
>                           complete?    formatting?   usability?
> 
> nted                   almost          good             quite good
>                           uses cairo, fast graphics + pango
>                           can export to lilypond if preferred, no options
>  now. author quite good about fixes, new features...
> 
> mscore              very             lovely,           good, but
>  stability/UI too flexible    issues uses qt4, some speed issues for large
>  scores? author quite good about fixes, new features but this is a large
>  and complex work.
> 
> denemo             claimed         lilypond        wierd, buggy
>                           Gtk-GUI feeder for lilypond--if one wants to try
>                           lilypond's markup, there is a kate plugin and a
>                           python-qt app-frescobaldi.
> 
> noteedit             good             lilypond        hokey, get's job done
>                           no longer maintained, KDE3, runs fine on KDE4
>                           ignore error messages if you get em
> 
> rosegarden   also does scoring. I found it nearly impossible to use for
>  this. It is one of the most complete DAW programs in linux but is now
>  dated, stuck with KDE3, could not run on KDE4. Being converted to QT4?
> 
> canorus is the other successor to noteedit. Was very incomplete last
>  outing. Anyone heard from them lately?
>