Hi–
I am looking for software I can use to compose a music score and make the computer play the music from the score.
Hopefully the software would be cross-platform so that it could run on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Could you please recommend the best software for this?
Thank you.
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Without being a musician. LilyPond, MuseScore and Rosegarden are the names that I have seen the most.
LilyPond is probably the most sophisticated software for producing scores but you need third party software to play any compositions.
A lot will depend on whether your priority is being able to produce complex scores or hearing your compositions quickly.
On 2012-05-10 16:56, RedDwarf wrote:
> Without being a musician. LilyPond, MuseScore and Rosegarden are the
> names that I have seen the most.
I have used rosegarden, but I’m not a musician, just know a little bit. I
have some inherited scores from a uncle and I wanted to know how it
sounded: as I can not play, I thought of using a computer to play it for
me. The problem with rosegarden is that it needs a midi player, and I have
only managed to use timidity to play a piano, and only a piano.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Rosegarden is probably a decent choice, and could be used as a front-end to LilyPond as well. Rosegarden isn’t a cross-platform software but the score could be exported as midi, LilyPond etc so it shouldn’t be any problem reusing the scores on another OS and with another app.
Rosegarden: music software for Linux
This is cross-platform:
MuseScore | Free music composition & notation software
Both packages are available from OBS repoes: http://software.opensuse.org/121/en (OpenSuSE 12.1)
If you decide to use LilyPond, it is worth downloading Frescobaldi (there wasn’t a package in OBS for it last time I looked but the instructions to install it are well presented and easy to follow). This offers an integrated GUI for working with LilyPond.
What I settled on some time ago is MuseScore. I believe that by now it’s by far the most popular free scorewriter, cross-platform or otherwise. Unfortunately it’s not included in the openSuse 13.1 repositories. It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu Studio.
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:46:02 +0000, LizardBoy wrote:
> What I settled on some time ago is MuseScore. I believe that by now it’s
> by far the most popular free scorewriter, cross-platform or otherwise.
> Unfortunately it’s not included in the openSuse 13.1 repositories. It
> comes pre-installed on Ubuntu Studio.
I show it available at http://software.opensuse.org, though - including
in the “Education” repository.
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Well I don’t know what to do. At http://en.opensuse.org/Education_repositories#Stable_Repositories I don’t see anything at all for 13.1.
On 2014-10-27 13:26, LizardBoy wrote:
>
> hendersj;2631330 Wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:46:02 +0000, LizardBoy wrote:
>>
>>> What I settled on some time ago is MuseScore. I believe that by now
>> it’s
>>> by far the most popular free scorewriter, cross-platform or otherwise.
>>> Unfortunately it’s not included in the openSuse 13.1 repositories. It
>>> comes pre-installed on Ubuntu Studio.
>>
>> I show it available at http://software.opensuse.org, though - including
>> in the “Education” repository.
> Well I don’t know what to do. At
> http://en.opensuse.org/Education_repositories#Stable_Repositories I
> don’t see anything at all for 13.1.
https://en.opensuse.org/MuseScore
http://software.opensuse.org/package/musescore?search_term=MuseScore
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Thanks. But it looks like all of those are unstable packages.
On 2014-10-27 14:36, LizardBoy wrote:
>
> Thanks. But it looks like all of those are unstable packages.
Ignore the naming. Just do not choose “home” repos and you are pretty safe.
The naming is misleading, it should be “unofficial”.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2014-10-27 13:26, LizardBoy wrote:
>>
>> hendersj;2631330 Wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:46:02 +0000, LizardBoy wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I settled on some time ago is MuseScore. I believe that by now
>>> it’s
>>>> by far the most popular free scorewriter, cross-platform or
>>>> otherwise.
>>>> Unfortunately it’s not included in the openSuse 13.1 repositories.
>>>> It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu Studio.
>>>
>>> I show it available at http://software.opensuse.org, though -
>>> including in the “Education” repository.
>
>> Well I don’t know what to do. At
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Education_repositories#Stable_Repositories I
>> don’t see anything at all for 13.1.
>
> https://en.opensuse.org/MuseScore
>
>
http://software.opensuse.org/package/musescore?search_term=MuseScore
>
>
It’s also in
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_13.1/
(or 12.3 or 13.2)
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