[LAU] Getting started editing and playing a score

Friends I would like to get started editing a simple score and producing some sound from it. I have tried rosegarden recently but I can get no sound out of it. It is far more than I require, as my confidence increases perhaps it is what I will need but I simply cannot tell at this point. In the past I have used csound, it has a less useful interface (suits me) and is the closest to what I want but I need to get a colleague entering a score and a text editor will not do. I am at my wits end, what I might need is a beginners guide for rosegarden, or better still a simpler programme, or virtual keyboard (best). I am completely swamped by all the options that I have and hence am a bit paralysed. I can tell that whatever I choose will require a big investment in time to learn but I cannot be sure that it is worth the investment. And being unable to get any sound at all is very demoralising. Worik PS I have been doing a lot of sound recording and editing with Linux and a M-Audio interface (usually) and a PreSonus AudioBox 1818VSL when I have to mostly into audacity. When I am absolutely forced to (when using > 2 tracks where Audacity cannot cope yet) I use audacious. I find audacious endlessly irritating for the same problems I outline above, so many options, so many knobs, where do I start? But audacity pretty much just worked. -- Why is the legal status of chardonnay different to that of cannabis? root(a)worik.org 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand) I voted for love