8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
7:31 p.m.
At 23.02 08/07/04, you wrote:
Hello,
Them wrote:
[...]
Don't count on it happening. And you
don't need it on Linux anyway.
I think Rosegarden or NoteEdit are good contenders, and don't cost you
$500.00. And Rosegarden works with JACK and LADSPA plugins, whereas
Finale does not. And Finale can't do LilyPond. Finale's PostScript
output option is a piece of junk, IMHO.
But.
Any sort of alphabetic medium for typesetting notes is
about as "right"
for a professional musician as it would be "right" for a programmer to
somehow write programs in the language of musical score. So Lilyopnd is
simply off track. It might be good for people working for publishers and
typing notes in from existing drafts; but even they might want a visual
tool instead.
that's right!!!!!!!!
I'm not saying Finale is perfect. And perhaps
having a Linux version is
not the best solution. Perhaps the best solution is developing an open
source Linux visual score editing-and-typesetting suite. It might even
become better than Finale because, for example, of a good plugin
structure.
I'm a musician so no idea about coding, but I really know what i need from a musical
editor...
However, I'm not a programmer, only a technical
writer and a husband of
a professional musician; I can write a spec, subscribe to LAD and start
discussing it, but I can't write the code!
Good Idea!!
Last time I tried the idea here; the general answer was
"RG will be up
to the task soon". But now, perhaps there are coders who would be
willing to join a project for a dedicated note typesetting/editing tool?
I can make a spec and join in a discussion, if there's any hope of
implementing it.
While we think that the music tipesetting is a sort of MIDI managment, we are completely
mistake!!!
Finale isn't used so much as a sequencer or MIDI interfaces...
For example here in the "Alla Scala" theatre of Milano, I've convinced some
sound technicia to try Linux... It is incredible that in three months the passed from
WISWIG to command line program...
There are two men in the musical archive that uses 8 hours a day finale for making
changes to the orchestral scores and parts. After they work privately at home and what
they still use? Finale.
And believe me, I've never listen any midi sound come from their office!!!
Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
Thank you so much Mikhail for the deep understanding!!
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Stefano Cardo
Debian DeMuDi GNU/Linux User