Canorus is a graphical music score editor written for the Qt toolkit.
It is a sequel of the well-known music score editor for Linux, NoteEdit. Canorus uses LilyPond for music engraving to achieve a very high quality in the resulting documents. This software supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output and more.
Canorus offers a number of import and export filters for LilyPond, MusicXML, Midi, NoteEdit and others.
Key Features
- Modern and flexible Qt4-based graphical user interface with vector graphics for music elements, multiple viewports on a single score.
- Multiple voices – Polyphony and unlimited number of contexts.
- Multiple viewports on the same music score.
- MIDI playback.
- Transposition.
- Lyrics.
- Scalable icons and other graphics.
- Multiple views of the score.
- Write the score using mouse and keyboard on one or more sheets as composers do and use copy&paste functionality then.
- Type the score in LilyPond syntax using the Score Source View.
- Unlimited undo/redo.
- Score elements:
- Notes, rests, various barlines.
- Various key signatures, time signatures and clefs.
- Triplets and other tuplets.
- Ties, slurs and phrasing slurs.
- Tempo marks (BPM), ritardando, accellerando.
- Fixed dynamic marks (piano, forte etc.), crescendo, decrescendo.
- Repeat signs (repeat bars, segno, coda).
- Bookmarks, custom text signs, rehersal marks.
- Pedal marks.
- Instrument change.
- Fingering.
- Articulation marks (marcato, accent, tenuto, bow marks, trills, pralls etc).
- Lyrics.
- Figured bass.
- Function marks.
- Transposition and accidentals reinterpretation.
- Preview and printing achieved externally by exporting the score to LilyPond and running a PDF viewer application.
- Playback of the score.
- Live recording of Midi performance.
- Insertion of notes and rests using Midi keyboard.
- Uses native tar-gzipped XML file format.
- Supports various resources you can add to score like images, sounds, videos and others stored inside the score.
- Export to LilyPond, Midi, PDF.
- Import from LilyPond (incomplete), Midi and MusicXML.
- Plugins.
- Internationalization support: 12 languages.
Website: sourceforge.net/projects/canorus
Support:
Developer: Canorus Development Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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