[LAU] Musical Score Editors - some advice for beginners
Werner Schweer
ws at seh.de
Thu Sep 24 12:34:08 EDT 2009
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 no longer maintained, KDE3, runs fine on KDE4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?
>
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