Thank you all for your suggestions. I will set up RoseGarden for
her, and see how that works. And if she doesn't like that, I'll
try the other software mentioned.<br>
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- Joey<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Hartmann</b> <<a href="mailto:bhartm@visi.com">bhartm@visi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I like Rosegarden. I've been using it for a couple of years on SuSE 9.1<br>first, now debian (agnula.org!) It is deep and could take a while to<br>learn. The MIDI side is not too hard. The PSR-295 has a USB interface,
<br>so it ought to be pretty (very) easy to configure with RG. They have a<br>very active mailing list too. Not having heard the 295's built in<br>sounds, I probably shouldn't criticize their craptitude, but RG offers<br>
the ability to use soft-synths and effects and then output to .wav's.<br>The other major FOSS alternative with a gui is MusE.<br><br><br>Dave Alitz wrote:<br><br>>I haven't used it with midi (the interfacing protocol); but others I've
<br>>talked with have been happy with rosegarden (<br>><a href="http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/">http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/</a>). Rosegarden does have a fairly steep<br>>learning curve and tends to be a bit difficult to configure.
<br>><br>>She may be happier with noteedit or lilypond. Noteedit is a graphical<br>>music notation tool for KDE that can import and export midi files.<br>>Lilypond is primarily a music notation program that primarily focused at
<br>>producing high quality sheet music (in dvi, ps, or pdf format), but also<br>>will create midi files. Lilypond is more powerful than Noteedit, but<br>>lacks a graphical interface. Lilypond uses a plain text script to
<br>>generate music (much faster for a code monkey, but normal people may<br>>find it cumbersome.) Noteedit can export to Lilypond.<br>><br>>midi music is by nature complex. There is a midi howto on <a href="http://tldp.org">
tldp.org</a> that<br>>is fairly thorough -- that may be the best place to start.<br>><br>>Dave Alitz<br>><br>><br>><br>>Joey Rockhold wrote:<br>><br>><br>><br>>>A friend of mine has a Yamaha PSR-295 keyboard. She would like to be
<br>>>able to record songs she plays, or compose and upload the songs to the<br>>>keyboard. The software that came with the keyboard (Windows of<br>>>course), is confusing for her and she does not like it. I am checking
<br>>>if anyone has any recommendations for free software that they like for<br>>>this purpose. I am not a musical person so I do not know the best<br>>>software to recommend or try out.<br>>>Software recommendations can be for any of the following platforms,
<br>>>order of preference from highest to lowest: Linux (OpenSuSE 10 (i386<br>>>or ppc), or Fedora Core 5 (i386 or ppc)), Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Windows<br>>>(if absolutely necessary).<br>>><br>>>Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
<br>>><br>>>- Joey<br>>><br>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>>><br>>>_______________________________________________<br>>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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