Redrose

ABC music notation integrated environment

Dependencies

• drumstick-file (library and headers)
• fluidsynth (library and headers)
• libspectre (library and headers)
• abcm2ps (program)
• abc2midi (program, optional)

Note that you must install abcm2ps binary for Redrose to display a view of the score.

Screenshot

Setting up

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev
sudo apt install qttools5-dev-tools
sudo apt install libdrumstick-dev
sudo apt install libspectre-dev
sudo apt install libfluidsynth-dev
sudo apt install abcm2ps
sudo apt install abcmidi
git clone https://github.com/be1/redrose.git

Building

Just a matter of:

$ qmake -config release
$ make
# make install (as root)

Starting

Launch redrose by clicking on the red rose icon, click on Score->New and type some ABC music in the editor, press Play button: you're done!

Bugs

• sometimes crash on pressing Stop button while playing music.
• internal parser is weak, you can use abcmidi instead.

Thanks

• Thanks to JF Moine for his free software abcm2ps
• Thanks to Morgan Leborgne for his QProgressIndicator free widget. https://github.com/mojocorp/QProgressIndicator