Re: Making music
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Copeland <fjc@thingy.apana.org.au> writes:
Frank> I'm looking for some combination of software that will
Frank> allow me to enter the score for each call and then say
Frank> 'play this on a bugle'. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Frank> I'm basically musically illiterate.
Try abcmidi. You'll probably also want an ABC display program like
abc2ps or abcmidi-yaps. You have to learn the ABC language, but it's
pretty simple. For instance, taps looks like:
X:1
T:Taps
M:4/4
L:1/16
F:http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/abc/TAPS.abc 2003-01-09 12:39:48 UT
K:G
D3 D| G12 D3 G| B12 D3 G| B4 D3 G B4 D3 G| B12 G3 B| d8 B4 G4| D12
D3 D|\
G8 z4||
Go to http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ for more
about the ABC language and pointers to other ABC applications. If you
want a GUI and have java installed, 5 line skink is a good choice.
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