Software to play around with composing music?

[Adam Funk]

> On 2006-10-13, Roman Klinger <mail at romanklinger.de> wrote:
>
>> If you need an "external" MIDI device you can also use a software 
>> synthesizer which will be connect virtually to Rosegarden (or any other 
>> software).
>>
>> I recommend timidity.
>
> So far I've figured out how to save the score to a MIDI file and play
> it through timidity.  If you happen to know how to "pipe" rosegarden
> straight through timidity, please let me know.  (If not, I'll
> eventually figure it out.

It didn't take me as long as I expected!  The sequencer has a "play
through slave" option which lets you set an external command such as
"timidity -A150".