BSD Music Editor?

[Scheater5]

Alright, I know there's been discussion about "not comparing open source software to commercial software because it's coded by individuals" - but allow a noob this question:
I can't find a music notation program suitable to my needs on Linux, but is there maychance one on BSD that anyone knows of?
I know it's asking alot to compare open source software to the likes of Finale, but I really need something along those lines. I'm a college music major, and a powerful music notation program really is a must. It's just one more thing tieing me to Windows at the moment. Rosegarden and Lillypond just don't cut it. I'd just use Powertabs and Finale in a virtual machine, but VMware doesn't include midi support. So, does anyone know of another program - in BSD or in any open source system. At the moment I don't even have BSD, but I'd put it alongside Ubuntu in this system for that sole purpose if Ifound a good program.

[christhemonkey]

Something like Noteedit?
http://noteedit.berlios.de/

Or musescore?
http://mscore.sourceforge.net/


Oh an they are both for linux, and use qt toolkit (kde one)
Noteedit is in the repos, but mscore isnt.

[Lord Illidan]

I don't think so. BSD is even more obscure than Linux...and also, it uses many linux apps..like KDE, firefox, etc.

Why not try wine to run the windows versions under linux?

[Scheater5]

Even wine is over my head at the moment, and while I'm willing to put forth effort to get many things to work in Linux, a music editor is something I need to "just work" - at least for the time being. Should something go wrong it would affect my grade - not an acceptable risk for me now.

[christhemonkey]

And finale seems to run reasonably under wine:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=454

To install noteedit:

sudo apt-get install noteedit

It will probably pull, loooads of dependencies, but hopefully, all will be well.

[Lord Illidan]

Then if it is that important, dual boot..

[Scheater5]

It is important - and for the time being I am dual booting (actually, I'm running Windows on another computer, although it is installed on this one, I just despise having to dual boot) but like I said, it's just one more thing tieing me to Windows. And it's pretty much the only important one - I can live without my games, but I've gotta do my homework!
O, and Noteedit crashes every time I try to open it - don't have time to post details, but I'll get back to you ASAP - thanx again guys, because Noteedit looks to be exactly what I need.

[mips]

Look at this thread and follow the links, http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=252280

Also do a search here for 'lilypond' and you will find many music notation related threads, not only on lilypond.

[Scheater5]

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The application NoteEdit (noteedit) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT)"

The KDE crash handler comes up with this message every time I try to run NoteEdit - I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?

edit: this has come up on the forums before, and no one had an answer

[Scheater5]

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[KCrash handler]
#6 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#7 0xb7bd39a1 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#8 0xb7bd52b9 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#9 0xb7db1c84 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler ()
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#10 0xb7daf915 in __gxx_personality_v0 () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#11 0xb7daf94a in std::terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#12 0xb7dafa7e in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#13 0xb6b6b2e7 in TSE3::MidiSchedulerFactory::createScheduler ()
from /usr/lib/libtse3-0.3.1.so
#14 0xb7ed2ce1 in NMidiMapper::NMidiMapper ()
from /usr/lib/noteedit/libnoteedit.so.1
#15 0x0804a399 in ?? ()
#16 0x081a6630 in ?? ()
#17 0x0804ac9e in vtable for QGList ()
#18 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#19 0xb76bcd70 in QColor::color_init () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#20 0x00000000 in ?? ()

This is what the backtrace yields - I really can't interpret it. If someone could help me, it'd be much appreciated - if someone could help me to interpret it myself I'd be even happier so I can fix it myself in the future.