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The software is donateware, so free to use and free of charge.The sheet music (PDF) is of a high quality (Example: Magnificat (2004) of Reinier Maliepaard).

It has an external previewer, that refreshes itself constantly.

The scriptbased editor enables you to manipulate data with a great ease.

It has a very fast note-entry: you can make a score very quick (well, at least as fast as typing a text in your texteditor).

Pitch manipulations (transpose, pitch converter).

Note entry by mouse clicks, keyboard short cuts or just typing.

If L: value doesn't equal to 'mcm_default', the code will be interpreted as ABC.

If found, the code will be interpreted as MCM. Our modification of the ABC-language makes it, in our opinion, all easier (why? study item 8 of the tutorial section).įor the convenience of ABC-users, MC Musiceditor 6.0.9 and later is a hybrid version: you can use the MC Musiceditor for MCM-code (default) and ABC-code! The trigger is L:mcm_default. The ABC language is simple to use and can create music scores from basic melodies to a complex symphony score. MC Musiceditor uses a modification of the ABC-language which was invented by Chris Walshaw. In addition: MC Musiceditor can share and interchange musical notation data of MC Musiceditor with WYSIWYG music notation editors like MuseScore, Finale and Sibelius (to mention only the most popular programs by my students). In short: MC Musiceditor is the easiest way to write, refine, hear and print professional scores. This resulted in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific knowledge (other than musical basics)! Why? To make life of musicians easier when making scores. MC Musiceditor is developed by Reinier Maliepaard, psychologist, software engineer, musician and teacher at the ArtEZ Conservatorium Netherlands (music theory and music history). Notice that MX Linux and Linux Mint are free and can run from a USB-stick!

Open source music editing software install#

If you install wine via MX Tools -> MX Package Installer, then MCMusiceditor-Lite runs not only very smoothly, but has a nice look also. However, the distro MX Linux () is an exception. Running MCMusiceditor-Lite under Wine is on most Linux distros less attractive, due to ugly fonts.

Open source music editing software full#

In addition, MCMusiceditor-Lite ('Lite' while lacking -among others- some note entry tools compared to the full version) runs also fine on Linux (under Wine).The two flavours, MCMusiceditor (full version) and MCMusiceditor-Lite, are made for Windows (XP and above).MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2 or above) music notation software. MC Musiceditor - free music notation software