NoteEdit

{{Short description|Defunct music scorewriter}}

{{Infobox software

| name = NoteEdit

| latest release version = 2.8.1

| latest release date = {{start date and age|2006|09|04|df=yes}}

| discontinued = yes

| operating system = Unix-like

| programming language = C++

| genre = Scorewriter

| license = GPL-2.0-or-later

| website = {{URL|https://www.berlios.de/software/noteedit/}}

}}

NoteEdit is a defunct{{Cite web |url=http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html |title=Wrong Link |access-date=2011-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901203056/http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html |archive-date=2011-09-01 |url-status=dead }} music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems. Its official successor is Canorus.[https://canorus.org Canorus - a music score editor] Accessed 21 January 2020.

NoteEdit is written in C++, uses the Qt3 toolkit, and is integrated with KDE. Released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, NoteEdit is free software.

Features

NoteEdit, unlike some Linux-based music editors, features a graphical user interface. NoteEdit's design has been praised by ITworld,[http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_desktop/10042001/ The Sweet Sound of Linux] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229065516/http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_desktop/10042001/ |date=2008-12-29 }} Accessed 9 May 2008. and Linux Journal praised both the interface and the relatively wide range of features and applications of the program.[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8928 LilyPond Helper Applications: Development Status] Accessed 9 May 2008.

It supports an unlimited number and length of staves, polyphony, MIDI playback of written notes, chord markings, lyrics, and a number of import and export filters to many formats like MIDI, MusicXML, abc, MUP, PMX, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

Linux Magazine recommends using NoteEdit with FluidSynth, a software synthesizer, to expand NoteEdit's abilities. FluidSynth uses SoundFont technology (a sample-based synthesis) to simulate the sound of a NoteEdit score played by live instruments.{{cite web |title=Do-it-Yourself Instruments |publisher=Linux Magazine |url=http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/37/NoteEdit.pdf |accessdate=2008-05-09 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Authors

NoteEdit was maintained by Jörg Anders for a long time. Since August 2004, a new development team was formed. Now there are quite a few people behind this software project:

  • Reinhard Katzmann, project manager
  • Christian Fasshauer, programmer
  • Erik Sigra, developer
  • David Faure, KDE User Interface
  • Matt Gerassimoff
  • Leon Vinken, MusicXML
  • Georg Rudolph, LilyPond interface
  • Matevž Jekovec, developer and composer
  • Karai Csaba, developer

In Autumn 2006 the development team decided to rewrite as score editor in Qt4 from scratch (now known as Canorus). Version 0.1.0 to 0.7.2 released under GPL-2.0-only, and since version 0.7.3 under GPL-3.0-only.

See also

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