Version 2.5.2 of the ABC music exporting musical score editor NoteEdit is available:
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html Ok NoteEdit runs on Linux only. On the other hand: It is totally cost free. New features: - Almost all is exported to ABC music (perhaps abcm2ps-4.3.2 is needed) including: + guitar chord diagrams + all 5 drum notes - Auto beaming during note insertion (configurable) - Export of guitar chord diagrams to MusicXML (thanks to Leon Vinken) - Import of guitar chord diagrams from MusicXML (thanks to Leon Vinken) - Note shifting by mouse wheel: + Wheel + Ctrl: shift note by 1 line + Wheel + Shift: shift note by 1 octave + Wheel + Shift + Ctrl: shift note by 1 semi tone - Cursor up/down + Ctrl: shift note by 1 semi tone ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Because NoteEdit seems to be totally unknown to this list I'd like to mention the other features: - insertion/deletion/modification of notes, rests, multirests, dotted notes/rests, tied notes, slured notes, clefs with/without shift, time signatures, key signatures, volume signatures, tempo signatures, triplets, repeat groups with/without special ending, multi repeats, and instrument changes on different staves; - stem up/down - building chords; - building groups of beamed notes; - zoom; - fermata, trills, (de-)crescendo, - double bar, Segno, dal Segno, dal Segno al Fine, dal Segno al Coda, Fine, Coda - sforzato, portato, strong pizzicato, sforzando - arpeggio, N-Tuplets (N in {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}) - Ritardando, Accelerando - Piano pedal marks - guitar chord diagrams See example1.not - drum notes - multiple voices per staff - playing on /dev/sequencer (if correctly configured) whereby: o giving each staff a different voice; o giving each staff a different channel; o giving each staff a different reverbation and chorus; o highlighting the played notes; o muting stavesis possible; - lyrics - export MusiXTeX; - export PMX; - export MIDI; - export LilyPond; - export MusicXML - export ABC music (see http://abcplus.sourceforge.net); - import MIDI; - read from MIDI keyboard; - record from MIDI keyboard; - saving an restoring the files. The fileformat is similarily to the format of the music publication program (MUP). So you if you are a MUP user you have the possibility to convert the files into MIDI and Postscript. -- J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html