Re: [LAU] Simple, fast, easy notation software?

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 16:51:37 Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: I had this discussion with the developer. He said he did not see this problem on his 2ghz machines, that I with my 500mhz PIII might not find the program usable. I do not agree. He is drawing notes rather than using a font. There are faster graphics libraries around for Java as well and better media libs and methods as well. Nted uses the cairo library for speed rather than qt for such reasons. Java can keep its UI thread live and responsive with proper multithreaded design For now, Impro-visor is much faster for shorter songs. Keep them short and the program approaches usability. It needs not do heavy work in notation--the problem is in the design. Midi play is no good. Again threading and design. The only functionality I will tolerate the slowness is on composing improvisations. The easiest and least fussy alternative is still bad old noteedit. Nted would be a second if one can tolerate moving notes around in it. Noteedit has no cut and paste functionality at all. Nted does but ... Mscore, if the new version has stability problems solved, is a bit heavy and odd in the UI but is gorgeous. Closest to noteworthy or sibelius around. Denemo is nice if one can figure out how to enter notes effectively. Feeds lilypond. Frescobaldi was mentioned. Use this if you want to polish up lilypond files from other programs, i.e. noteedit or denemo.