[LAU] Getting started editing and playing a score

[Bob van der Poel]

Try musescore. Pretty simple to run. But, doesn't have the midi edit
function of rosegarden. But, IMHO, much better for score notation.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:20 PM, worik <root at worik.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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