My first response never went to the mailing list, but it was a
recommendation for *Canorus*, which has export to PDF feature (downside was
I couldn't get playback to work in Canorus, your mileage may vary).
-Tres
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Here's a video on musescore. I suggest watching the whole 10 part series
> to see if it will work for your girlfriend.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mh6m2mbVHs&feature=player_embedded#at=94
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <
> tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a video on musescore. I suggest watching the whole 10 part series
>> to see if it will work for your girlfriend.
>>
>> -Tres
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <
>> tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Canorus might do what you need. Musescore looks like it might be able to
>>> do this too.
>>>
>>> Canorus is about 500MB, about 5 minutes to install on a fast connection.
>>>
>>> First I searched Freshmeat.net to no avail.
>>>
>>> Then I searched on command line using Ubuntu:
>>>
>>>> *apt-cache search midi |grep editor*
>>>
>>>
>>> To install Canorus Ubuntu:
>>>
>>>> *sudo apt-get install canorus*
>>>
>>>
>>> To get notes do draw, I had to "Insert - New Sheet", then "Insert - New
>>> Context"
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I can't get any playback to work (not even a basic note).
>>> This is very disheartening. Perhaps a physical midi device is needed for
>>> playback.
>>>
>>> I haven't spent much time with MIDI, so I can't speak to the quality of
>>> the software. Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> The rest of the search results are posted below in case they are helpful:
>>>
>>>> canorus - graphical music score editor
>>>> canorus-data - data files for canorus, a graphical music score editor
>>>> freej - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> freej-dbg - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> freej-doc - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> frescobaldi - LilyPond sheet music editor for KDE4
>>>> libfreej-dev - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> libfreej0 - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> libfreej0-dbg - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> libswami-dev - MIDI instrument editor - development files
>>>> libswami0 - MIDI instrument editor - shared libraries
>>>> musescore - Full featured WYSIWYG score editor
>>>> musescore-common - Full featured WYSIWYG score editor (common files)
>>>> nted - Musical score editor
>>>> python-freej - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> python-freej-dbg - realtime video mixer and linear video editor
>>>> rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer
>>>> swami - MIDI instrument editor application
>>>> swami-dbg - MIDI instrument editor - debugging symbols
>>>> toonloop - live animation editor
>>>> tuxguitar - Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player (gp3 to gp5)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:46 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My girlfriend has scribbled out some music on paper. She wants to tap
>>>> it into the computer and get nicely-computer-printed notation and a
>>>> MIDI file out.
>>>>
>>>> Do any of you do this/have done this? If so, what do you use?
>>>>
>>>> She's currently spent a couple of hours battling Rosegarden and has
>>>> nothing good to say about the experience ... and she couldn't even
>>>> work out how to get Lilypond to start.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - d.
>>>>
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