I have a friend that is undertaking a huge project totwo software programs for digitizing scores:
digitize tons of old music scores. I remember Art
spoke at an UUG meeting a long time ago about some
Free sofware for doing this, but I have been only able
to find Rosegarden. The motif version is a
screwdriver-in-the-head, and the qt version seems very
crash-prone. They just want to digitize scores and
replay them in some standard format for the benefit of
public domain. My question is: What program(s) and file format(s)
would you recommend for this?
Thanks for any help. -Jon D.
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Lilpond (like latex, the text file is cryptic.)
Denemo (a front-end to lilypond. After finishing a score, some things will still need to be tweaked)
Rosegarden is great for sequencing, but not that great for notating scores. One of the nice things about denemo and lilypond is they both have MIDI export so you can then play the midi file with Timidity or Rosegarden, or anything else.
Midi and score notation is still not as simple and straightforward as it is on other platforms. It takes a little work.
Art
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