Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2001/01

From: Christian Budde <budde@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:27:07 -0500

Hi Becki,

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, ikebders wrote:

> I am interested in the various music programs out there. I have heard that
> Sibelius is a really good one for PC. Any comments? What else is there? How
> do you rank them?

I am not an expert in this field. For Windows I can name Capella, the
professional version costs about 140$ (here in Germany) and I did not find
an english version, perhaps a problem? Look at

http://www.whc.de/

I don't have an actual version myself but have seen a good deal of
produced output. You can do sheet music, transposing, Midi in and output (
though I have no experience with this), and hear the music you just type
if you have a soundcard (I don't own one, but know it works fine). There
are extensions (cost extra) for reading scanned sheet music available, but
I cannot say anything about this feature.

For those Linux enthusiasts one could try Lilypond. The advantage: it is
free. But it is far from complete, though interesting. It has _no_
graphical interface, but uses TeX as a typesetting machine. Input is like
a symbolic programming language which you compile either to sheet
music or to midi. If you like this ( _I_ do :-) ) look at

http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond/lilypond.html

HTH
Christian

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