I am working on a musical typesetting program, similar to Lilypond and ABC. I wanted to know if you were to use such a program, what kind of features and abilities would you expect or want from it?
I am working on a musical typesetting program, similar to Lilypond and ABC. I wanted to know if you were to use such a program, what kind of features and abilities would you expect or want from it?
2009 Calace Model 24
No one?
2009 Calace Model 24
I've been looking for a program that will make simple lead sheets. IE:song structure ( measures, beats) with a way to add lyrics text.
It would be nice to include a chord dictionary in the software program that can be accessed.
Importing features would be good. Also to be able to import or convert to PDF.
Teri LaMarco
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Amandalyn,
Until Chris's work matures you might like to try ABC, see my signaure.
John
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I like to use programs that can also generate tabs underneath each staff line. The ideal: To be able to have a line of melody with lyrics above the guitar back-up in standard notation above the guitar back-up in tab.
And make it easy! (And that's gotta be hard.)
Dennis Ladd
I use a program called MusEdit which generates tab/notation together. Also does lyrics, chord diagrams etc. www.musedit.com Created by Doug Rodgers, good guy, very helpful. Not expensive and easy to use. I got mine at Elderly.
Bill
Teri LaMarco
Hear my music on Spotify (and other streaming services)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2XBuk...SV24bnkZ2uC-hw
This is a little off topic but does anyone know of a progam that will show the notation on screen as you play?
I am learning and whilst doing exercises it would be good to see the notes on a scale in front of me. Or is that ambitious?
Thanks for the replies!
2009 Calace Model 24
Exporting to PDF is trivial once the output is in PostScript. However, to import a PDF and extract the music from it is well outside the scope of this project (and definitely non-trivial) -- it is in fact, in my mind, bordering on the realms of fields such as voice recognition.
2009 Calace Model 24
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