Klarinet Archive - Posting 000319.txt from 2001/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:46:51 -0500

Capella is available in the UK in English, certainly. Somebody I know who
uses it (in an illegal German-version copy!) recommends it highly, for ease of use
and versatility.
Roger S.

In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101091631450.6202-100000@-----.org writes:
> 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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