Write music scores with MIDI devices
If you’re a musician who wants to create your own music score, then you’ll know how painstaking, complicated and expensive it can be to produce notation by hand. Thankfully, Linux is blessed with several music notation tools, and one of the best is – of course – both free and open source.
MuseScore 3 combines all the functionality you need to build simple or complex scores from scratch, with a customisable user interface that doesn’t require a degree in music to understand. It’s intuitively laid out, and you can build your score using a combination of drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts and – optionally of course – your MIDI keyboard. You can also import scores from a wide range of sources – including the standard MusicXML format and even some PDFs.
Music to my ears
The version of MuseScore available in the Ubuntu 18.04 repos is the older version 2 release – visit https:// MuseScore.org/en/download to obtain the latest version, either as a standalone AppImage or to read distro-specific instructions. In Ubuntu 18.04, open the terminal and issue the following commands:
Once done, launch and you’ll be will open proper to its Start Centre.
