Re: [linux-audio-user] notation

Aaron wrote:

>>hmn, what version of Denemo did you use. The only docs for the old versions was a read me, quite hidden, now denemo has a user manual.
>>Also it wasn't clear that denemo wasn't a mousecentric editor but was meant to touch type.
>>Was the problem that it didn't export at all to lilypond? or just the wrong version?
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Version 0.7.4 from Debian unstable.

Non of my Lilypond files import at all (2.2, 2.4 or 2.6 versions alike);
Denemo simply crashes. For me that is a reason not to investigate
further, especially since Denemo is supposed to be a Lilypond frontend.
And I forgot to mention it uses GTK+ which I dislike; sorry, I just
prefer QT.

FYI I usually type my Lilypond files by hand, so I am not at all
mousecentric.

>One of the problems with Denemo is that its so different from other editors. Sort of like the difference between Vim and gedit, if you know what I mean.
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>5 minutes with denemo most definitley isn't enough, since it is a 'deep' program, but like vim once learned it is very quick to use.
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>But since the purpose of my post was to find out what editors people use and why they like them, let me ask a few questions:
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>1. what is the killer feature in Rosegardens notation editor or at least the one you like/use the most?
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No killer feather. It just works and it is integrated with full midi
support.

>2. Is most of your notation entered with a midi keyboard or the computer (mouse/keyboard)
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Both, for Rosegarden/Hydrogen I use a midi keyboard, for
Lilypond/Songwrite a computer keyboard.

>3. Does moving your hands back and forth from mouse, midi keyboard, computer keyboard, bother you, slow you down or speed you up?
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Left hand on the midi keyboard, right on the computer keyboard.
Depending on the piece I'm doing it's fast or a bit less fast :-)

>4. how would you rate the documentation of your notation software?
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Rosegarden is pretty good. Lilypond is overly complicated with too many
snippets of code, but not a good general overview of how to cleverly
write Lilypond scores.

>5. is there a missing feature, bug on your software that you really miss or really want fixed? What?
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I would like Rosegarden to have better sound support. I never get it
working perfectly. I still envy my friend who can do with Cubase what I
have to do with Rosegarden/Hydrogen/Audacity.

>Thanks
>Also if you get a chance I encourage you to try Denemo again and instead of just leaving write all the things that you don't like so we can use the constructive critisisim to make Denemo better.
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FYI, the output when I load a Lilypond file:

GNU Denemo, a gtk+ frontend for GNU Lilypond
(c) 1999-2005 Matthew Hiller, Adam Tee, and others

This program is provided with absolutely NO WARRANTY; see
the file COPYING for details.

This software may be redistributed and modified under the
terms of the GNU General Public License; again, see the file
COPYING for details.

Synthesizer detected: Emu10k1
Synthesizer supports 64 voices.
TIMEOUT NUM 276
auto save on/off
** (denemo:2075): WARNING **: readpreffile : error opening
/home/hans/.denemo/denemorc : No such file or directory
newstaff: Num staffs 0
newstaff: Num staffs after insert 1
systemwide = /etc//denemo.keymaprc

** (denemo:2075): WARNING **: load_keymap_file : error opening
/home/hans/.denemo/keymaprc : No such file or directory
No of Displays 1

** (denemo:2075): WARNING **: No editor found in environment variable
$EDITOR - using gui
The parser needs finishing a lyparser.y:1861 for this idiom to be usable
The problem occured at line number 50 of the lily input
No of displays : 1
si is 0x80d0888
      
Received on Mon Jan 30 00:15:05 2006