Denemo 0.8.6 release - Music Notation Editor

[Nils Gey-2]

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Just after one month the Denemo project has released a new version of its music notation program. Denemo 0.8.6, which is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS (via third-party builds) as source and binaries. The software is distributed under the GPL. Denemos notation-functionality is ready for daily and professional use and aims to be the only tool you ever need for notation and an Open Source alternative to Finale, Sibelius or other unfree software, because the tools for producing art and culture should be free.

Notable new features are
- Downloading new commands and edit scripts between releases
- MIDI out, Tempo and Volume changes and insertion of arbitrary MIDI messages at any point in the music.
- Edit lyrics in text editor and see the syllable placement as you type. Multiple verses per voice allowed.
- Pasting LilyPond text directly into the Denemo window. By pasting the actual music text a Denemo editable score can be created from almost any LilyPond file.
- With JACK, the playback starts from the cursor or plays back the selection if there is one. All this happens withoutre-creating the MIDI data, and in any case without generating external files.

Official support, beneath our website, is avaible via our IRC channel #denemo on irc.freenode.net.

For future improvements our team searches for additional developers. If you are interested in notation and midi-sequencing please join the team!

Website: http://www.denemo.org

Additional information:

GNU Denemo is a free, GPL, open source music notation editor for Linux, MacOS and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, or played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer's soundcard.

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[Guido Scholz]

Am Fri, 03. Jul 2009 um 14:20:35 +0200 schrieb Nils Gey:

Hi Nils,

[Denemo 0.8.6]

after some tweaking of the configure.in script I could successfully
compile this version under a Ubuntu 8.04. Nevertheless I am wondering
about if a libsamplerate version 0.1.4 is really necessary, as stated in
this script. My Ubuntu provides version 0.1.2 which seems to be
sufficient (not extensively tested)?

Guido

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[dovidhalevi]

I eagerly downloaded and compiled this. This version defaults jack to off so I
did not get the missing libjack.la error. Tried to run it.

1. Cannot import noteedit's MIDI or Lilypond files. If it were just one of the
formats, I would suspect noteedit--I know that sometimes the Lilypond files
cite errors (but still print). However, this is the same crash out it both
cases so I suspect problem in denemo.

2. It wants timidity. If I start that up (I use it with jack), denemo will
kill it. One of the errors, with or without timidity running on starting
denemo is "no default output device." I really do not want to use timidity.
Let me just play to my soundcard which is a simple mpu401 output.

3. If I select MIDI input, I can get one (count 'em) note in. Using the mouse,
I would like drag or click like in all the other programs. It seems I need to
click on the staff line, then click on the toolbar to select a note. Never
write any music that way. I'll go back to the site and see what all the modes
mean. There should be one MIDI setup dialog to select input and output devices
should I want them. Once active, they should simply play.

4. For what would denemo require jack? Jackmidi support is OK. I usually need
to use a2jmidi_bridge rather than -X with some programs but that also works.

5. Does denemo attempt pitch detection and conversion. Why else would there be
an audio input option. I have never had such great results with this stuff and
I put down good money on windows programs claiming to do so. Joe Kohler's at
least addresses the issue of timing--how to get meaningful, scorable MIDI. But
promises of good polyphonic detection are very ambitious. Anyway, if I can
compile with jack, then let me choose my tools and use jack in the way it was
designed.

So far ... still stuck with noteedit. If only frescobaldi would not segfault,
I could edit lilypond files there.
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[Jeremiah Benham]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:49:52PM +0200, Guido Scholz wrote:

> Am Fri, 03. Jul 2009 um 14:20:35 +0200 schrieb Nils Gey:
>
> Hi Nils,
>
> [Denemo 0.8.6]
>
> after some tweaking of the configure.in script I could successfully
> compile this version under a Ubuntu 8.04. Nevertheless I am wondering
> about if a libsamplerate version 0.1.4 is really necessary, as stated in
> this script. My Ubuntu provides version 0.1.2 which seems to be
> sufficient (not extensively tested)?

If your not having issues with 0.1.2 I will fix this upstream.

Jeremiah

>
> Guido
>
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> http://www.lug-burghausen.org/



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