12 Feb
2009
12 Feb
'09
8:33 p.m.
I'm still using MUP http://www.arkkra.com/ ... I don't figure I'm dumb
at all, but I can't get my brain around lilypond :)
There's a review somewhere on my web page as well:
http://mellowood.ca/mup/index.html
ethan a young wrote:
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Message: 27 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:34:16 +0100 From: ben
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Laura Conrad a ?crit :
Following the thread, i admit i still do not have made my choice:
i stared by using denemo with lilypond output, then switched to write
lilypond or ABC with vim, and have recently given a try with nted. I
noticed nted has a good midi-output, considering ornaments and other
expression directives.
- ben
i was really excited when i first discovered lilypond, but it's intimidating to get
started in (hah, this coming from someone who abandoned windows and went fully to linux on
a whim... :) regardless, i don't know how to make lilypond work to produce scores...i
tried with the jEdit front-end, but that never worked well.
i haven't ruled out lilypond, but it seems like programmers are most comfortable
using it, and i am no programmer...
i really like the fact that NtEd is truly WYSIWYG...even Encore was never this good, and
i had to trust the printer output because the display was often corrupted comparatively.
Finale looked good, but i am biased against Finale and similar programs -- tried it and it
was really complicated and unintuitive for me. mouse clicks and button presses often did
not do what i expected them to!
i never looked seriously at Rosegarden -- not to say it isn't a good program.
i'm sure it is :) but i didn't want a full "music composition
environment." by the time i enter music into the computer, it is fully composed in
my head and/or on paper :). i suspect it is the same for many composers and musicians who
spend most of their time off the computer, which is why i think a program like NtEd is so
important.
i just want something that can make beautiful scores without much fuss or a steep
learning curve, but with a powerful editor so i can publish and archive my compositions in
a semi-professional manner.
what features is NtEd missing?
I put it in a similar category as Seq24: it's a simple tool, but it does what
it's supposed to do very well. I think it is aimed at a different audience than
RoseGarden, though.
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>>>>>>>>> "ethan"
== ethan a young <ethan.y.us(a)gmail.com> writes:
>>>
ethan> What has other's experiences been so
far with these new and
ethan> developing programs?
I use lilypond and have used ABC in the past. You can use rosegarden
or musescore as a frontend to lilypond, but I haven't been very
successful doing it. I have an emacs program that takes MIDI keyboard
input and puts lilypond notes in the buffer, and I can use
point-and-click on the xpdf screen to get back to my emacs buffer.
I don't claim that this is as easy to set up as a GUI would be, but
given all the options you want for a full-featured notation editor,
for me anything that works with emacs is easier to use than anything
that doesn't.