Latest Music Software News
- Robotic Twitter Songwriter Generates Tweet Poetry 15 Mar 2010, 12:12 pm
Marvim Gainsbug: the Twitter based Song Composer from jeraman on Vimeo. It should come as no surprise, but Twitter can compose existential nihilistic poetry. Just ask the creepy, detached voice of Mar. […] - OSC Files: Play That Funky Music, Hexagons 15 Mar 2010, 11:35 am
Didgeridoo from bar|none on Vimeo. You can’t quite dance to it, but bar|none has a beautifully-shot video of a strange, invented instrument constructed with some of the technologies we saw last week. […] - Rob Papen Updates Predator 14 Mar 2010, 11:24 pm
Rob Papen has updated the Windows version of Predator to v1.5.8. - Togu Audio Line Windows 64-bit Versions 14 Mar 2010, 11:09 pm
Togu Audio Line has released Windows 64-bit versions of many of its free plug-ins. - Freak Show Enterprises JambaLaya 14 Mar 2010, 11:07 pm
Freak Show Enterprises has updated JambaLaya to v1.3.1. - Iliadis Updates Efthimia 14 Mar 2010, 11:06 pm
Iliadis has updated Efthimia Electronic Organ to v1.4. - Universal Audio Precision Enhancer Hz 14 Mar 2010, 10:48 pm
The Precision Enhancer Hz is designed to allow the user to selectively add upper harmonics to bass fundamentals, sometimes referred to as “phantom bass”. - Universal Audio Manley Massive Passive EQs 14 Mar 2010, 10:35 pm
Universal Audios UAD Powered Plug-In versions of the Manley Massive Passive EQs represent UAs most ambitious and detailed EQ model to date, the company says. - SONiVOX Eighty Eight – Grand Piano 13 Mar 2010, 12:51 pm
SONiVOX announced the release of their Grand Piano Virtual Instrument, Eighty Eight, conceived and designed as a virtual embodiment of a Steinway CD 327 grand. - Music Notation on Word 13 Mar 2010, 12:40 pm
musicnotationformsword.com announced the release of Music Notation for MS Word, a music notation editing product that allows musicians to embed, edit and publish music notation in Microsoft Word envir. […]
NoteEdit is a free music score editor for Linux. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of written notes, chord markings, lyrics, a number of import and export filters to many formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MUP, PMX, MusiXTeX and LilyPond and more.
Features
* Insertion/deletion/modification of notes, rests (and multirests), ties/slurs, stem/beam control, instrument changes, repeats, clef/time/key/volume/tempo and all other classical music notation signatures.
* Chords markings (based on KGuitar project)
* Dynamic expression markings ((de)crescendo, octaviation, arpeggio, fermata, trills, grace notes etc.).
* Fixed expression markings (staccato, sforzato, portato, strong pizzicato, sforzando etc.).
* Multiple voices per staff (polyphony).
* Drum notes (including drum and bass drum clef).
* Flexible UI based on Qt/KDE. Supports zoom, multiple windows, many keyboard shortcuts, Konqueror embedding and other candies.
* Playback and other MIDI operations (reading and recording from MIDI keyboard) are done using TSE3 library. Each staff can have its own channel, own intsrument and own MIDI settings (reverbation, chorus). Currently played element is highlighted!
* Support for lyrics.
* Basic score layout operations (setting brackets, braces, score title, composer, copyright etc.).
* Many useful tools like automatic placment of bars, automatic placement of beams, transposition, copying&pasting of elements, optimization and resetting of accidentals, MIDI importing (or recording from MIDI keyboard) filters etc.
* Exports MIDI (using TSE3 library), MusicXML, ABC Music, PMX, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.
* Imports MIDI and MusicXML.
* The NoteEdit fileformat is similar to the format of the music publication program (MUP). It’s a plaintext format, with a simple syntax for describing the music, so computer geeks can edit it by hand if they want to:).
* NoteEdit is translated into the following languages: German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene and Swedish. It supports UTF-8 encodings for lyrics, score title, composer, copyright and other document strings.


