The author of "NoteEdit" presents

NtEd - 1.10.18 - a musical score editor (only) for Linux

Please have a look at my new WebGL-Page!

I'd like to express my admiration for the developers of the Cairo library. Cairo can antialiasing, curves, deal with PostScript fonts, and fill in areas independent of whether these areas are concave or convex. Without any change of the drawing instructions you can bring Cairo to draw in a widget, create a PostScript, PDF, PNG, or SVG file image. And if you compare the output: It is always exactly the same image! And it is fast, very fast! This is important because the WYSIWYG user expects an answer to a mouse event during approximately 50 ms. The WYSIWYG behaviour of NtEd bases completely on the properties of the Cairo library.

Download source: nted-1.10.18.tar.gz (3998 K)	NtEd is in Ubuntu	NtEd is in PCLinuxOS
Installation from source	OpenSuse-11.1/2 packets (1.10.16) Thanks to Carsten Gerlach <carsten-gerlach at gmx.de>	Old NoteEdit page -->
older versions	NtEd is in Fedora	Debian packages 1.10.18 Thanks to Gilles Filippini <gilles.filippini at free.fr>
Slackware package Thanks to Johannes Schöpfer <johannes at schoepfer.info>	Arch Linux package 1.8.0 Thanks to Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com>	nted is in Gentoo `emerge media-sound/nted` Thanks to Matthias Vill <nted at cconstruct.de>

Known Bugs

There are problems with MuiscXML files which divide an instrument into staves

See How to translate for instructions to prepare a translation for your preferred language.

Properties

Real WYSIWYG, i.e. what you see on screen is exactly what you get on printer output
Distribution of the musical symbols on pages and systems
(up to) 4 voices per staff
N-tuplets 2 ≤ N ≤ 13
repeats (with/without alternatives)
Segno, dal segno al Coda, dal Segno al Fine (with correct replay)
up to 5 lyrics lines
drum notes
grace notes
trills, pralls, mordent, staccato, tenuto, sforzando, ...
dynamics, (de-) crescendo (hairpins)
grupetto (turn, reverse turn)
separate timbre for every voice
va8, vb8, ma15, mb15 - lines
accelerato, ritardando
fermata, arpeggio
continously scaleable score
piano pedal marks
block instructions
Transpose
context change (key, clef, time signature change)
customizable ties, beams, slurs, stems
customizable spaces (global and per measure)
Internationalization: German , Dutch , Spanish Italian Swedish Hungarian French Russian Chinese Ukrainian , British
arbitrary text (allegro molto con brio)
hiding rests / position rests vertically

creating score from playing MIDI keyboard
determine pitch by MIDI keyboard
breath symbols
guitar chord diagrams / chord annotation
extract staves
import MusicXML
import NoteEdit (implicit)
system layout (braces, brackets)
direct replay, whereby: Configurable music instruments per staff
muting staves
export midi
play transposed
import midi
export PostScript
export PDF
export PNG
export SVG
multiple windows
Library usage as little as possible (Cairo, Gtk, X11, ALSA)
Note! Some more packages are needed for immediate help (see: Installation from source)
Antialiasing
simple installation tested on many Linuxes, i.e.:
./configure make make install
works on all tested Linuxes
GPL

Note: For smooth replay a PC > 2.0 GHz is recommended. This holds especially if a soft synthesizer like TiMidity is used.

Support

Because the author has not enougth time, NtEd is unfortunately unsupported. Excuse, but do not expect an answer if you write an email to the author.

There is a special mailing list available for bugs and feature requests. The list is open for members and non-members. But I recommend to become a member because otherwise it can happen the answer is only posted to the list. The mailing list has also an archive. So before posting a request or a bug please try to find out whether sombody else already sent a posting concerning the same topic.

Documentation

English		German (Deutsche Dokumentation)
Download: doc.tgz (2573 K)	OnLine documentation	Download: gerdoc.tgz (2579 K)	OnLine documentation
Italian documentation		Spanish documentation
Download: itdoc.tgz (2580 K)	OnLine documentation	Download: esdoc.tgz (2578 K)	OnLine documentation

If you want to translate the documentation into your preferred language Don't translate the HTML pages!!!. Please send an e-mail to me (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)! I'll show you a way to make a reuseable translation, which can grow with the growing original documentation.

FAQ

The FAQ is part of the TAR archive and the documentation.

Das deutsche FAQ findet man in der deutschen Dokumentation.

First test

To hear my examples use the soundfont mentioned here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/8MBGMSFX.SF2

For more information about how to use the SF2 file read the appropriate question in FAQ or read about the configuration of the TiMidity server

        File --> Open ... --> datafiles/nted/examples/example1.ntd
or:
        File --> Open ... --> datafiles/nted/examples/example2.ntd
or:
...
or:
        File --> Open ... --> datafiles/nted/examples/example11.ntd

Press the play button. You should see running red notes and you should hear the music. If you hear the music the program works :-))

If not then try to change the MIDI port ( Configure-->Configure MIDI select a port)

If nothing helps refer to the appropriate question in FAQ.

Beethoven's 5th symphony 1st movement

bee5.ntd.bz2 (36K)

To hear this example use the soundfont mentioned here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/8MBGMSFX.SF2. Otherwise it sounds strange!
For more information about how to use the SF2 file read the appropriate question in FAQ or read about the configuration of the TiMidity server

How to use the NtEd score in ordinary texts? How to add a 2nd, 3rd, ... verse as ordinary text?

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/) for more details.

J.Anders, ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Do not expect an answer, see above!