Re: [LAU] GNU Denemo chokes a dual core 2 GB server

On Monday 15 October 2007 01:56 pm, David Baron wrote:
> > tim hall wrote:
> > > Would Rosegarden be any better?
> > > Or even timidity?
> > >
> > > I don't know Lilypond, so this might be a stupid suggestion.
> >
> > If the tunes are really simple, and if the students aren't
> > afraid of text files, they can use abc format. There is a
> > Linux program to map abc to midi. I would think that's about
> > the simplest and least resource intensive way to create
> > playable midi files. However, it's not the most
> > intuitive.
>
> I missed the start of this thread. If you are interested in entering
> musical notation (scoring) and exporting MIDI, well Rosegarden is not the
> best choice, is too heavy and its scoring is not easy to use. Denemo is
> simply not ready to play.
>
> Try good old kde noteedit (awkward but effective) or the new and very nice
> musescore (mscore, is WYSIWYG and does not need lilypond to print, the new
> one on the block and just gets better and better!).

I found the abc programs I was thinking of:

Runabc.tcl
http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html

and:

tkabc
http://moinejf.free.fr/

A whole bunch of ABC stuff:

http://www.abc-notation.com/abcapp/list.html?phrase=&system=all&function=Playback

all teh best,

drew
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Received on Tue Oct 16 08:15:02 2007