Noteedit is a music notation editor that allows for limitless staffs and up to 9 voices per staff.
The software comes with a plethora of features that make it a must-have for anyone in the music industry. It allows you to perform core classical music functions like insertion/deletion/modification of notes, rests (and multirests), ties/slurs, stem/beam control, instrument changes, repeats, clef/time/key/volume/tempo, and all other essential notation marks.
Additionally, the software includes chords markings (based on KGuitar project), and dynamic expression markings ((de)crescendo, octaviation, arpeggio, fermata, trills, grace notes, among others). It also has fixed expression markings (staccato, sforzato, portato, strong pizzicato, sforzando, etc.), multiple voices per staff (polyphony), drum notes (including drum and bass drum clef), and support for lyrics.
The user interface is flexible, based on Qt/KDE, and supports zoom, multiple windows, many keyboard shortcuts, Konqueror embedding, and other candies. There are many useful tools like automatic placement of bars, automatic placement of beams, transposition, copying&pasting of elements, optimization and resetting of accidentals, MIDI importing (or recording from MIDI keyboard) filters, among others.
NoteEdit allows you to export MIDI (using TSE3 library), MusicXML, ABC Music, PMX, MusiXTeX and LilyPond, and it imports MIDI and MusicXML. The NoteEdit file format is similar to the format of the music publication program (MUP). It's a plain text format, with simple syntax for describing the music, so computer geeks can edit it by hand if they want to.
NoteEdit is translated into many languages, including German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, and Swedish. It supports UTF-8 encodings for lyrics, score title, composer, copyright, and other document strings.
In the new release candidate of NoteEdit 2.8.1, many bug fixes and improvements have been made to the beta version, so the beta version can no longer be downloaded.
In summary, NoteEdit is an excellent software for anyone in the music industry, providing a wide range of features that are essential for music notation. It's perfect for creating sheets of notes and lets you import/export into lots of formats. Try it out today and be blown away by its awesomeness.
Version 2.8.1-rc: N/A