Software to play around with composing music?

[sdavmor]

SteVe Cook wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend some software that will let me throw notes
>> on a score and play them back? All the MIDI-related stuff I've
>> seen seems to relate to using external MIDI devices --- I'd just
>> like to compose (using the term very loosely) and play the score
>> through the normal sound output and to any normal sound file
>> format (e.g. wave, MP3, Ogg).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adam
>>
> Have you had a look round the ubuntu studio forum
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=128
> 
> SteVe

Thanks for the link! This is of interest to me (taking off my day-job
programmer-geek hat, putting on my Systems Theory musician hat). The
mubuntu DAW project looks to be something I definitely need to
investigate.
-- 
Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
Systems Theory internet music project links:
official site <www.systemstheory.net>
soundclick <www.soundclick.com/systemstheory>
garageband <www.garageband.com/artist/systemstheory>
"Soundtracks For Imaginary Movies" CD released Dec 2004
"Codetalkers" CD coming Nov 2006
NP: nothing