On 29-May-05 Fred A. Miller wrote:
This from a friend of mine who is going to insall SUSE on his 'puter. ALL the "bases" are covered but one.......sheet music. I've looked but haven't found anything......does anyone know of such an app.?
Thanks,
Fred __________
"I am trying to remove everything but my compostion Software that will take a played piece and write a score, If I can find a sheet music convert I might be able to give up Bloze."
People have suggested rosegarden and lilypond, and there's also MusiXTeX. Also very much worth considering is MUP: http://www.arkkra.com which while not freeware (there's a small "shareware" fee which is valid for all time) produces excellent results. Unlike both rosegarden and lilypond, however, you don't have a GUI (allowing you to "drag&drop" notes etc.), but you type in a textual specification which MUP then compiles into a PS file of the score. In this it resembles basic MusiXTeX (which however can also be used as a backend for the GUI-based programs). However, I suspect that these, though good for typesetting sheet music from scratch, are not what Fred's friend is looking for, since he talks about "taking a played piece and writing a score", which suggests converting from the performer's output directly to printed score (or editable equivalent). I've not encountered such a thing for Linux myself, but then I never looked for one before! However, entering the search text "midi to sheet music" linux into Google throws up a huge number of hits. These may be worth exploring. If the "played piece" is available as MIDI output (from e.g. an electronic piano), then there might be a route to follow somewhere in that Google search or a similar one. Hoping this helps. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-May-05 Time: 19:43:20 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------