Sunday, May 25, 2008

Music to my ears with Midi

I found a small gem of a program buried in the ubuntu repositories called NtED. It's a small WYSIWYG musical score editor. I installed it on a whim and just started playing around with trying to compose my own grand opus. When I hit play however, there was no sound coming from my speakers as the notes were being highlighted.
I found a simple solution to this was to install TiMidity (also in the repository) which enables MIDI to play under ubuntu. With that installed, I was instantly assaulted by my musical composition which will need a bit more tweaking before I let any musician near it. Your ears should thank me for that.Technorati Tags: , , , , , ,

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