Software to play around with composing music?

[Constantine Evans]

Adam Funk wrote:
>> 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".
> 
> 

Or just start timidity with timidity -iA , which will set up timidity as 
an ALSA MIDI device.