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pa_mcclamrock

NtEd 1.4.15 music editor (successor to NoteEdit) (EDITED 2009 Feb 25--new download site: http://puppylinux.asia/members/pa_mcclamrock/nted-1.4.15.pet):

For anyone who remembers NoteEdit, NtEd is the improved successor, written by the same author. It works pretty much like NoteEdit as far as composing and editing music, importing and exporting MIDI and other file formats, etc.. Unlike NoteEdit, though, NtEd is a WYSIWYG "music processor"; it produces pages on the screen that are identical to what you can export to PostScript/PDF, print on paper, etc.

Plus, if you have TiMidity++ installed and your sound properly configured, you can easily play any music that appears in an NtEd score, including one imported from a MIDI file (NtEd does the import pretty quickly, and often pretty well). All you need to do is, first, run this from the command line:

timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100 &

Then, under the "Configure -> Configure MIDI" menu item in NtEd, select one of the listed TiMidity MIDI ports, and away you go! If you don't believe it, there are a number of example scores that should convince you. No more frustration with wretched MIDI sequencers that don't work (such as I endured for years on Mandriva Linux using Rosegarden, NoteEdit, etc.)!

This .PET package is derived from a Slackware package that didn't include the many little graphics for the HTML documentation, so I got the graphics from the source tarball and included them. You may not see the documentation under the "Help" menu, but it will be there, beginning at /usr/doc/nted-1.4.15/nted/en/index.html .

I was pleasantly surprised to find that, although the package lists numerous dependencies, NtEd somehow found them all in my not-drastically-modified Puppy 4.1.1, installed promptly, and started right up. If you're a MIDI musician, I hope it will for you too!

David McClamrock

Dingo · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 924

mirrored and linked on dokupuppy:

http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy/programs:composition

In windows, I was using

*Anvil studio*
- www.anvilstudio.com

to make my MIDIs, I will try ntedit

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Thu 27 Nov 2008, 19:49 Post_subject:

showdownmetal · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 19

timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1| -s 44100 &

that line is giving me this error.

bash: -s: command not found
[1] 8688
# Terminated sig=0x0d

[1]+ Exit 127 timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1 | -s 44100
#
#

what does that mean? and how do i get this to work? thanks!

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2009, 18:59 Post_subject:

capoverde · Posted: Mon 13 Apr 2009, 12:01 Post_subject:

Testing NTED.pet right now, works easily along with Timidity on Puppy 3.01 --> 4.2.

Much faster and simpler to set up than MuseScore, though less flexible in detailed page layout (e.g., text fonts). Slows down Timidity quite a bit, sadly; anyway many thanks David and all helpful hands, one more nice app for musical Puppians. Smile

@ Dingo: ever tried Jazz++ under Win? Somewhere in the Web there's still JazzNT, freeware, working in WinXP as well as 98 & ME.
No score, but powerful MIDI editing -- my favorite MIDI sequencer, stable and fast; hope one day we'll have it also in Puppy, was reportedly being developed further as Open Source.

synth · Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 202

FYI, NtEd has been updated to 1.5.0

and here's the 'real' successor of NoteEdit:
http://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

(.DEB package and Windows .exe available for download)

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Tue 14 Apr 2009, 20:04 Post_subject:

capoverde · Posted: Sat 18 Apr 2009, 03:16 Post_subject:

Testing NtEd 1.5.0 on Puppy 4.1.3, really good! See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=296324#296324

** EDITED: A note about Timidity -- There are (at least) two versions of this program available for Puppy: one is listed in the Puppy 2 repo as "timidity-2.13.0" and has been compiled without the Alsa server option enabled, so it won't work with NtEd (or any other MIDI sequencer) giving the command described in the first post of this thread.
The other one has been compiled with this option enabled but with no gtk interface, it is named "TiMidity++-2.13.0" and will work to this purpose. Other possible uses and its download location are described by Pizzasgood here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=225018#225018

charlie6 · UPDATED 9.6.2009

capoverde · Posted: Tue 09 Jun 2009, 05:31 Post_subject:

charlie6 · Posted: Sun 14 Jun 2009, 08:32 Post_subject: Sub_title: NtEd 1.5.1 is available

Hi,
new version 1.5.1 is available at Slackware
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.2/multimedia/nted/1.5.1/nted-1.5.1-i486-1cf.tgz
seems to have fixed some midi import features.

at installation on a fresh Puppy4.1.3 frugal on a PIII laptop192MBRam (10 years old), I got the following message when running NtEd from console: (only part of the message)

hanzf · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 52

Hello,

I installed NtEd and timidity.
When I typed: timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100 &, it said:

this doesn't look to me like an error message, but still NtEd plays without sound.

I also have Amuc installed (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1462054391&t=26976) and it produces a sound that, in my opinion, is good enough for scoretyping. How can I find out how Amuc produces its sounds, and can NtEd also use this method?
(Anyway, on my computer it will probably be better to have the simplest sound production available. Just to hear if I mistyped something in the score.)

charlie6 · Posted: Tue 23 Jun 2009, 05:49 Post_subject:

Hi hanzf,

hanzf · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 52

Thank you charlie6, but still doesn't work. I also have some other problems with NtEd especially with keyboard note input, generating only quarter notes and sometimes causing NtEd to say "segmentation fault" and crash. I started trying musescore:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1936384562&t=34321

it seems slower than NtEd but everything I tried up to now works with no extra modules.