20 Aug
2009
20 Aug
'09
10:14 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:26:59PM +0200, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, advice, and help.
I think it will take me a good deal more research, RTFM'ing, testing, and
experimentation before I can pick one and go for it. In the meantime, I'm still
hobbling along typing stuff out in emacs. Chords are fine in plain text, but when it comes
to melodies with rhythms, ASCII falls flat.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around notedit, nted, and denemo, and I'll add
ABC to the list too.
Thanks again.
-ken
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.
May I suggest (as others already have) abc, in particular the very nice
abcm2ps (http://moinejf.free.fr/)? It's easy to learn, flexible and
scales well (I'm even doing big band arrangements in abc).
A simple piano-style composition (of mine) could look like this, which
is pretty enough for me:
http://web4490.web03.talkactive.net/compositions/piano/regnvejr.pdf