NoteEdit

NoteEdit

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.

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