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On Wednesday 21 December 2005 15:35, Brett McCoy wrote:

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> Jeremiah Benham wrote:

> > Noteedit use to crash for me. Then I realized I had multiple

> > versions of kde/kdelibs. I cleaned it up to one version then

> > recompiled. Now it no longer crashes but not all the features seem

> > to work on the described machine. It works well on anouther mahine

> > with debian on the ppc architecture.

>

> I installed NoteEdit on Debian unstable last night... it installed

> cleanly (there have been some issues lately with unstable with broken

> dependencies) and started up without a hitch. MUCH more stable now.

very nice to hear that... haven't tried the latest version yet.
> Couldn't print since it required some external program

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> (abcsomethingorother)

apt-get install abcsomethingorother
modularity (specialized tools, dependency hell/heaven) is what gnu/linux

is all about, discouraging idiotic code duplication.
i hate any app which has it's own sound system or printing system

(unless it is specialized on that). they lose time working hard on

trying to get their "unique" sound system work (or printing, or

windowing, or etc.), which reduces quality and quantity of the

specialized code their tool must include.
> and I was able to import some MIDI (an old 
i don't like how noteedit imports *any* midi at all. i just hope the

latest version does it better. (rosegarden has the same problem, but at

least it won't crash on larger midi files import.)
> MIDI I created with Rosegarden2 many years ago imported perfectly and

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> I was able to play it back). Oddly, NoteEdit didn't break the piece

> up into measures.

simply use ALT + e, a (edit / autobar)
by the way...
i hated it when finale was not allowing me to input anything, because it

was forcing me to respect its concept of measuring... i generally avoid

restrictive "autocorrection" "features", especially when they are based

on an "automatic replacement" concept and/or when they make me feel

contrained at every move.
i prefer to be notified of the error rather than get the feeling i

can't... live, act... you know that feeling of your hands being tied

tightly... and i couldn't find any way to disable that "feature"...

(right, i don't remember finale ever having been intuitive, but at that

time it was actually lacking that option -- maybe even now (i haven't

used it for a long time)).
[i am aware my finale comment above is mostly off-topic]
> A larger MIDI file locked up the application

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> completely and I had to kill it manually.

yes, it happens to me, too.
> I'll play around with it some more, it will be useful for playing

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> with ideas and harmonies, since it's much more lightweight than

> Rosegarden. For serious recording and integration with Ardour + jack,

> though, I will still have to use Rosegarden.

right. rosegarden rulez. it is a sequencer, after all. noteedit is a

score editor (although some could use it as a minimal sequencer...)

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