Notation software...I'm not sure quite what to make of this, but the results are pretty sharp.
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/
Drum machine...it says for Linux, but it has a windows version
If you have a spare machine available with a decent soundcard and RAM, try installing this complete music operating system
I love it
Traverso Multitrack editing
http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php
Psycle - go have a look, it's a interesting tool for music creation
I've just had a quick look at Lilypond - at first glance, it's best feature is that you can include music directly into html files (they also have an add-on to include it into OpenOffice docs). You no longer have to dump an image and paste that into your GN article, for example.
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In the absence of a GUI to drag & drop notes straight on to stave, Lilypond looks extremely usable. I like the way it defaults to the "nearest" note each time.
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I've had a quick play with hydrogen. I found a few things quite "unnatural", particularly having to always load the drum kit.
You can download and install additional drum-kits - BUT - they don't install under windows. You have to follow this workaround (it's possible that there will be no further support for Windows, in new versions):
1. Download and install 7-Zip
2. Download the tar.gz compressed drumkits from the hydrogen website (www.hydrogen-music.org)
3. Right-click and choose "extract" (from the 7-zip sub-menu), puts an H2drmkit file into a sub-directory.
4. Repeat step 3 on the h2drmkit file
4. Repeat step 3/4 on the output of each extraction until you get a folder full of flac or wav files.
5. Move the folder, containing the wav/flac files to C:Program FilesHydrogendatadrumkits
6. Load/reload hydrogen and they should appear.
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Thanks for the workaround GB, that works great. I have ubuntustudio loaded so I hadn't run into it on windows.
I've found that once you have a drum-kit loaded, it will stay there (I had to try 3 times to get it to stay).
They have a forum, where people have put up their own drum tracks ( http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/ ) - of interest is the post "Blues Box" - there is a basic set for blues shuffles to download.
On my windows machine, the documentation text is the same as the background, so you can't see anything. Just "Ctrl-A" and the entire file will be marked. It can now be read.
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Nice to see more open source multimedia tools getting attention. Cheers Nick.
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Do you have to be a technical genius to get this program to run on a Windows machine? (It seems like just what I'm looking for, but I don't want to jump in if I won't understand how to do it.) :D
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