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Canorus

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:20:40 +0000

Canorus is a free extensible music score editor. It supports note writing, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output, scripting and more! Using a Qt4 framework Canorus offers a fast and modern GUI and cross-platformability.

Key features of this program include:

- Score source view with on-the-fly parser and rendering to the scoreview
- Command line interface & Scripting support
- Plugins
- Function marks
- Archived XML-based file format with resources attached
- Qt4 and cross-platform ability
- Modern user interface (vector graphics for music elements, multiple viewports on a single score)
- Doxygen documentation
- Multiple voices – Polyphony and unlimited number of contexts
- Multiple viewports on the same music score
- MIDI playback
- Transposition
- Lyrics
- LilyPond export, basic import
- MusicXml basic import
- Midi export, basic import

Elisa The Open Media Center

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:04:49 +0000

The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online. View your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows. Manage your music collection by artists or album covers. Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.

Here are some of the current features:

* Watch pictures with previews and animated slideshows
* Watch movies and video clips
* Browse music collection by artists or albums covers
* Browse internet radio and picture websites

* Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop
* Audio visualization during playback

* Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska. Commercially licensed plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo.

And much more…

LMMS

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:10 +0000

LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program and those of powerful synthesizers, samplers, effects etc. in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.

Its main features include the following:

- Song-Editor for arranging the song creating beats and basslines using the Beat-/Bassline-Editor

- Easy-to-use piano-roll for editing patterns and melodies
instrument- and effect-plugins

- Support for hosting VST(i)- and LADSPA-plugins (instruments/effects)

- Automation-editor

- MIDI-support