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The bundle includes free templates for Lemur iOS owners. - EastWest releases Quantum Leap Solo Violin 3 Feb 2012, 9:00 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio EastWest has released of Quantum Leap Solo Violin for Windows and Mac OS X (VST, AU and RTAS). Produced by Nick Phoenix, Quantum Leap Solo Violin is a virtuoso solo vi. […] - Full Bucket Music releases "the deputy Mark II" String Synthesizer 3 Feb 2012, 8:25 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio Full Bucket Music has released the deputy Mark II, a free VST2.4 software instrument for Windows in the tradition of classic string machines and early "polyphonic" syn. […] - Ableton Live 8.2.8 3 Feb 2012, 8:24 am
Ableton has updated Live to version 8.2.8.
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.


