LinuxMusicians

Dumb newbie question regarding Mixx: is there any way to get it to recognize the BPM of a piece that is in 3/4? What about compound time sigs such as 6/8? It's reading compound time as slow 2/4s which is not really what I need. I did *skim* the manual but freely admit I may have missed this! Thanks ...

Greetings fellow noob! If the ISO verifies OK and it still won't install, try dropping down one version from the current distro. My ISO was fine, turned out the current Ubuntu Studio distro simply didn't like my hardware. But Precise Pangolin worked right out of the box.

Welcome Liz! So are you mainly using the PC to write scores? It's not something I've played with, but my kids are studying music and may well have a use for it. How does MuseScore compare with the closed source options? Yep, just scores. I've been a loyal Finale user for decades now and I have to s...

Hello all, my name's Liz, I'm an amateur classical composer from the scary Deep South. :lol: I finally got brave and decided to come back and give Linux another go - my last epic fail of an attempt was circa SUSE 2.0 or 2.1 or something. :lol: I'm from the MS-DOS days, so a command line don't scare ...

Hi, I'm new to the forum and to Linux and like you, coming off of Finale. MuseScore will do what you need and plenty more besides. Since you've used Finale you will find it very intuitive. For me, MuseScore was the main attraction of Linux - I am but a poor classical composer, and much though I love...