NoteEdit is a defunct music

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for

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and other

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computer

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s. Its official successor is Canorus. NoteEdit is written in C++, uses the Qt3 toolkit, and is integrated with

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. Released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, NoteEdit is

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Features

NoteEdit, unlike some Linux-based music editors, features a

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. NoteEdit's design has been praised by ITworld, and Linux Journal praised both the interface and the relatively wide range of features and applications of the program.LilyPond Helper Applications: Development Status
Accessed 9 May 2008. It supports an unlimited number and length of staves,

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playback of written

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markings,

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, and a number of import and export filters to many formats like

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, MUP, PMX,

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and

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recommends using NoteEdit with

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, a software synthesizer, to expand NoteEdit's abilities. FluidSynth uses

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technology (a

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) to simulate the sound of a NoteEdit score played by live instruments.

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,

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.

References

External links

NoteEdit home page
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Canorus - music score editor
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