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LilyPond mentions (43)

• MIDI Editor

  Why use this when you could just use Lilypond, which is free, open source, and has a legacy in TeX: https://lilypond.org. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures

  > since its width was set to 0 Is this totally necessary? It might be. I don't know much about font programming. If the values have to be hard-coded. If you can get me a contact info, I could send you the master list of chords.. Maybe you could use that. > I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org Lilypond is a music engraving system. That... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures

  So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures… I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Make measure width smaller?

  At lilypond.org I found some tips, but they all were for the complete score. I don't want my score to be compressed or have smaller notes as I'm rewriting the music because the original notes are to small for me. Source: 6 months ago

• Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns

  As far as open-source software is concerned, you can use Lilypond [1]. Fully text-based transcription. You can edit, insert, splice, overwrite, etc. To your heart's content in your favorite text editor and get a high-quality engraving as output. [1] https://lilypond.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Noteflight mentions (3)

• How do i write this repetition structure with volta brackets and without a coda?

  Unfortunatly, I am writing music for someone that isn't comfortable with codas. Therefore, I tried to use voltas only (example 2 and 3). In example 2, the music goes like in example 1 all the way to D. The D.S. Al coda is replaced with a repetition bracket at the end of D, bringing the music back to B while still in the same bracket sequence. Eventually, the music comes to E, where I wrote a closed volta bracket... Source: over 1 year ago

• I'm a mobile composer who's poor,and the app i use for composing music's trial is going ti end

  There aren't really any good ones for mobile. Are you sure you aren't willing to try composing on PC or Mac? There are quite a few good resources on computer that are completely free. Musescore is the most prominent one that is free to use, however, there is also one called Finale Notepad. It's meant to be a free demo to convince people to use their full version. The demo isn't limited though. It doesn't expire.... Source: almost 3 years ago

• r/composing_randomcrap Lounge

  Also you can use noteflight.com to compose. Source: about 3 years ago