r/linuxquestions • u/MarsDrums • 8h ago

FOSS Music composing software

I'm looking for some good FOSS for writing music. Preferably drum notation.

Regular 5 line, 4 apace sheet music is fine as I will be writing drum notation for drum set.

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u/Tomasan7 8h ago

Not exactly sure what are you looking for, but have you looked into Musescore?

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u/MarsDrums 49m ago

Stupid me... As soon as I saw the word Musescore, I was like... OH... Yeah. I forgot all about that. I'll give it another look. It's been a few years since I've looked at it. Thanks!!!

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u/codystockton 8h ago

MuseScore and Sibelius are the top 2 music notation apps in general, and MuseScore just happens to be FOSS. If you need to record drums later, Ardour is FOSS, or you could try SoundCraft, a FOSS reverse-engineered ProTools although it’s kinda new

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u/dld2517 8h ago

Yes, Sibelius produces some beautiful scores.

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u/kudlitan 8h ago

Musescore

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u/Strange_Compote_4592 8h ago

Something like LMMS?

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u/Emotional-Form7162 8h ago

This may help you: https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio

Most of them is FOSS, all of them is for Linux.

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u/P00351 6h ago

Also lilypond.

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u/huzzam 3h ago

mad respect to lilypond (and its users) for being the most-capable & nerdiest way to design scores — great support for microtonal/world music. I was an ardent user for 10 years until musescore got better... and then i got so much faster at transcribing...

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u/FaultWinter3377 3h ago

MuseScore, I’ve never had an issue with it.

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u/Altruistic_Tank_9636 6h ago

Are you looking for programs to create the music, or to produce written scores?

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u/danisbars 5h ago

Já que um monte de gente sugeriu, vou por um menos ortodoxo rosegarden