Need to burn a cd--

• Mar 16, 2009 - 02:30

I have created an accompaniment for a cello student of mine-- I would like to burn it to a cd at several speeds. How do I do this? I am running Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex 8.10. Muse Score is a really great program--even with the bugs. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks,

LisaJo

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• Mar 16, 2009 - 02:53

From MuseScore save as MIDI. Then either send your student the MIDI file via email or look up a way to convert MIDI to an uncompressed sound format needed to burn CDs. As a Windows user I am not familiar with what is available for Ubuntu in this area but I bet you could find some options with a little searching.

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• Mar 16, 2009 - 20:28

Mr. Bolton,

Thanks for your help. I did exactly as you asked and with the Tempo instructions from this website was able to save several different tempi of this piece. I sent it off to my student and will be seeing her shortly--and will find out if she got it. She may be able to burn it and tell me how she did it.

If this works, this will be very helpful to my students

Thanks,

LisaJo Borchers

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• Mar 21, 2009 - 03:07

thanks, I tried audacity-- I think it might work--but it'll will take time for me to figure it out. I think for now, I will crank up the volume on my computer and put a microphone in front of it.- run that through my Roland Studio-- and get it done.
I will keep working with audacity. It sounds like a great solution. I just need to spend time with it.

LisaJo Borchers

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• Mar 18, 2009 - 14:35

My cello student received the midi attached to email, was able to play them with Windows Media Player-- but the volume was so low that it was barely audible. She couldn't seem to make it louder. So I'll try the next suggestion, so kindly ready for me this morning!

Thanks,

LisaJo Borchers

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• Mar 18, 2009 - 18:52

On Windows XP MIDI playback has a separate volume control. Possibly this volume is turned down independently from the master volume on your student's computer. Follow arrows in the screenshot below for instructions.

In future versions of MuseScore you will be able to save directly to WAV. See 17 March in the ChangeLog .

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• Mar 20, 2009 - 00:29

> In future versions of MuseScore you will be able to save directly to WAV. See 17 March in the ChangeLog.

Thanks for the tip David. I just downloaded the latest pre-release to test this out and I think this is a great new feature. However, It seems to just use the default sound font even though another was loaded. I wonder if support is planned in the future for exporting to WAV using a custom sound font. That way it would sound just like it does inside MuseScore.

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• Mar 20, 2009 - 15:57

Hi! I just joined. I'm impressed by how helpful and responsive people are in this forum. It is a great sign of potential future success for an open source program! (Well, you can also argue that right now the program is already very good, as evidenced by the sample screens--I haven't downloaded yet. It reminds me of Sibelius, which is one of the best commercial programs out there. Great job! I'm considering switching to Notion, but then I see this...)

I'd like to download r1654. (19.mar in SCM repository per ChangeLog). But I've watched http://prereleases.musescore.org/windows/ for the 2nd day and the latest is still mscore-r1644.exe. I understand that I shouldn't expect every change to show up as a prerelease (although 18.mar and 17.mar were both there already, seemingly daily!) but can I get a rough estimate when the ability to save .WAV with a good Soundfont will be there in prerelease (cant wait for ver 0.9.5)? (I was using an old version of Sibelius which does not have this capability, so this is important for me to switch and try.)

Regardless, thanks in advance for reading the forum and responding!

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• Mar 20, 2009 - 16:37

The windows prereleases are indeed not released on an exact interval. It remains manual work mostly because we still need to make sure the prerelease is actually working. It happened a few times that we had to withdraw a prerelease due to some critical issues.

I can only give one good answer: subscribed on the twitter feed in order to get first hand information when the new prerelease is out.

In case you are a developer yourself, you can always try to compile musescore yourself using the developer handbook

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• Mar 20, 2009 - 16:48

Again thanks for the quick reply. Indeed yesterday I had already followed on Twitter... These 2 days I browsed your regression logs and did notice a few more issues that need to be resolved, so I'll wait patiently then for the next prerelease (and use other s/w in the mean time). I assume the other people who had expressed interest in this thread in the saving as WAV feature using the right Soundfonts will be patiently waiting too. We can, and certainly will, provide feedbacks as to whether this feature works or not. Keep up the good work!

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• Mar 20, 2009 - 17:23

@thomas I bumped into MuseScore via Google. I was originally looking for an open source project for which code is available that I can interface to do "music composition". The idea for MaxScore is great (it interfaces to Max/MSP both ways, and Max is a key program for "new music" composers), but it is not free, and I worry that I'll keep paying year after year. I downloaded Canorus, which could be the one I'm looking for, except the current version doesn't even seem to import MIDI and some versions of MusicXML correctly, and the typography is relatively crude at this point, and (like a recent version of MuseScore as I read the log) crashes when file|close. Having a script/API interface is a great need-- if you look at the Sibelius add-in (plugin) list, a lot of the provided ones have to do with composition. There are just too much stuff that core developers can supply (with the limited time we all have), but we composer-programmers can help provide such capability via a good extension interface, enriching the user experience for everyone (for the users, it's mostly the same whether we contribute via core or through add-in). Not having to deal with SVN and compilation and the whole ten yards is a plus for me, whenever the extension capability becomes mature enough. I understand, of course, the current QTscript is just a beginning, but any work in this area is greatly appreciated...

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• Mar 21, 2009 - 03:13

I was using Finale Notepad-- Not able to afford the full version. I had the need to use Linux -I seem to work better with that than windows. So I looked around and found this.. I am private string teacher, wanting to make accompaniment tracks at several speeds for recital prep. Finale is slow and ponderous compared to Muse Scores-- even with the bugs. I was able to jump in and do things intuitively. I love this program. It is addictive-- and I keep getting more ideas-- and somehow I"m getting them to work.
Thank you and Bravo
LisaJo Borchers

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