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[Hartmut Noack]

Am 31.05.2012 08:56, schrieb bart deruyter:
> That means a midi and audio capable DAW.
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> All of it in Ardour? That's new to me, well, with Ardour 3 yes, but without
> a printable score.

There are Workarounds. You can import the midi-files from the 
project-folder to a software, that can print them.

> The official release isn't out yet... it's still beta.
> It has midi support though.

The recent Betas do work quite good. I have spent dozens of houres 
working in them whithout any trouble.

>
> Rosegarden does it all, and with a score. But I'm not a fan of it... I had
> too many issues with it, but it might work out well for you.
>
> My guess is, wait for Ardour 3 to release a stable version, download,
> install (installer is really easy) and try it out. Then you'll have a
> audio/midi recording app of huge quality.
>
> If you can't wait, try the beta, but don't use it for real work, just for
> testing and getting familiar with it.
>
> grtz,
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> 2012/5/31 Daniel Worth<pipemanmusic at gmail.com>
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>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Dave Woyciesjes<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
>>> wrote:
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>>>     I'm getting the itch to start attempting to compose music. I'm looking
>>> for recommendations on a decent, fairly easy to use program(s).
>>>     I'll start with just using the mouse and computer keyboard to layout
>>> the notes. Eventually I'll probably connect my MIDI/USB Casio to lay down
>>> the music.
>>>     Needs to be multi track (drums, guitar, bass, etc..). Once I get the
>>> tracks laid down, I may even hook my 5 string bass to the line in. If there
>>> is an application to apply effects to that, even more fun. But that's later
>>> on...
>>>
>>>   I guess what I'm looking to do is compose&  record to wav (the
>>> compress/convert to mp3) all on the computer. Eventually I'd try using the
>>> MIDI/USB keyboard to "write" some parts into the program.
>>>     I'm geussing I'd probably need a different application, if I want to
>>> add a line-in source to the song during mixing.
>>>
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>> All of this is possible using Ardour.
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