I haven't used it with midi (the interfacing protocol); but others I've talked with have been happy with rosegarden ( http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/). Rosegarden does have a fairly steep learning curve and tends to be a bit difficult to configure. She may be happier with noteedit or lilypond. Noteedit is a graphical music notation tool for KDE that can import and export midi files. Lilypond is primarily a music notation program that primarily focused at producing high quality sheet music (in dvi, ps, or pdf format), but also will create midi files. Lilypond is more powerful than Noteedit, but lacks a graphical interface. Lilypond uses a plain text script to generate music (much faster for a code monkey, but normal people may find it cumbersome.) Noteedit can export to Lilypond. midi music is by nature complex. There is a midi howto on tldp.org that is fairly thorough -- that may be the best place to start. Dave Alitz Joey Rockhold wrote: > A friend of mine has a Yamaha PSR-295 keyboard. She would like to be > able to record songs she plays, or compose and upload the songs to the > keyboard. The software that came with the keyboard (Windows of > course), is confusing for her and she does not like it. I am checking > if anyone has any recommendations for free software that they like for > this purpose. I am not a musical person so I do not know the best > software to recommend or try out. > Software recommendations can be for any of the following platforms, > order of preference from highest to lowest: Linux (OpenSuSE 10 (i386 > or ppc), or Fedora Core 5 (i386 or ppc)), Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Windows > (if absolutely necessary). > > Thanks in advance for the suggestions. > > - Joey > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >