Thank you all for your suggestions. I will set up RoseGarden for her, and see how that works. And if she doesn't like that, I'll try the other software mentioned. - Joey On 4/24/06, Bob Hartmann <bhartm at visi.com> wrote: > > > I like Rosegarden. I've been using it for a couple of years on SuSE 9.1 > first, now debian (agnula.org!) It is deep and could take a while to > learn. The MIDI side is not too hard. The PSR-295 has a USB interface, > so it ought to be pretty (very) easy to configure with RG. They have a > very active mailing list too. Not having heard the 295's built in > sounds, I probably shouldn't criticize their craptitude, but RG offers > the ability to use soft-synths and effects and then output to .wav's. > The other major FOSS alternative with a gui is MusE. > > > Dave Alitz wrote: > > >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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060425/cf0f0294/attachment.htm