I'm looking for software that will render some kind of musical notation. The
type of notation is negotiable. Any help greatly appreciated.

Peace

"Elaine Jackson" <elainejackson7355@home.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for software that will render some kind of musical notation.
The
> type of notation is negotiable. Any help greatly appreciated.

For a start try NoteWorthy Composer - download an evaluation copy from:
www.noteworthysoftware.com $39 to register if satisfied.
Good support and friendly user forum/newsgroup.

For a little more and better tools for MIDI and editing try:-
Geniesoft Score Writer - download a demo or buy from:
www.geniesoft.com  $49US to purchase by download.
Good support - user forum on Yahoo groups.
My notator of choice.

(And than there are the $$EXPENSIVE$$ ones) !

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Barry Graham
Top Brass Events Band
Melbourne, Australia
www.topbrass.com.au

Elaine Jackson wrote:
> I'm looking for software that will render some kind of musical notation. The
> type of notation is negotiable. Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Peace
> 

The best choice would be Finale.  They have many options from the free 
"Notepad" to a comprehensive package.  http://www.finalemusic.com/

Il Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:27:08 +0000, Elaine Jackson ha scritto:

> I'm looking for software that will render some kind of musical notation. The
> type of notation is negotiable. Any help greatly appreciated.

If you're not scared of editing a text file, you could try out mup:

http://www.arkkra.com

It's a 29$ shareware and once registered you're subscribed to all future
versions, it is a very powerful package to produce sheet music: it has a
simple synthax, midi output and is multi-platform (I run it on linux).
Being text based you can edit your music even on a palm.

Another very powerful text based package is lilypond:

http://lilypond.org/web/

Lilypond is free software[0], but it has a more complicated synthax
than mup: check out the "crash course":

http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto.html

Lilypond is a great piece of software, but it is more difficult to install
than mup (you must have an installation of TeX, for instance); however,
there are some "ready to run" solutions, for example the AGNULA/DeMuDi
GNU/linux distribution[1] or the planetCCRMA bundle[2]. AGNULA/DeMuDi also
has a "Live cd"[3] with which you can try linux without installing it (and
should also have a working lilypond installation). The live cd is only for
demo purposes, if you like it, consider a full AGNULA/DeMuDi installation
on the hard drive.

I don't want to advice running this programs in windows ;) , but there are
also windows versions of both... (for using them in windows you have to
install ghostscript, that is by default included in any linux distro)

> Peace

HTH ciao

[0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[1] http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_2_0_iso
[2] http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
[3] http://download.agnula.org/1.1/1.1.1/demudi-live-cd_1.1.1.iso

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