Re: Linux OS

2025-02-07 Thread Knute Snortum
On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Hi Knute > > You mentioned there's a flatpak for the Frescobaldi v4.0.0 beta. I'm > curious how to find and install this. > I believe this is the link you need (look in the README): https://github.com/flathub/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi -- Kn

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-07 Thread Tom Brennan
Hi Knute You mentioned there's a flatpak for the Frescobaldi v4.0.0 beta. I'm curious how to find and install this. Thanks! Tom On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM Knute Snortum wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM Valentin Petzel wrote: > >> >> The not so nice thing: Frescobaldi is not really

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-06 Thread J. G. Stalnaker
Ben and David, Short Story I think what is missing in the previous communication is that both timidity and fluidsynth can be run as applications from a terminal prompt to play midi files AND in what’s called “daemon,” i.e., “server” mode - that is, they are loaded into system memory and stay load

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 18:38:34 (+0100), Ben Engbers wrote: > It showed that fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-common were > already installed. I only had to add fluid-soundfont-gs. > > I also found this page: > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-midi-audio-on-fedora-with-fluidsynth

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-05 Thread Gian Paolo Renello
Almost all linux distros have lilypond and frisco band in their repositories.08:32, 4 febbraio 2025, Silvain Dupertuis : On Ubuntu, I have Frescobaldi installed as a package, not a snap. (frescobaldi/noble 3.3.0+ds1-2 amd64) Le 04.02.25 à 08:23, Eby Mani a écrit :

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread Ben Engbers
Hi, It showed that fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-common were already installed. I only had to add fluid-soundfont-gs. I also found this page: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-midi-audio-on-fedora-with-fluidsynth/103401 It tells me that the command "fluidsynth -is" is use

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 08:44:19 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM Ben Engbers wrote: > > I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth > > soundfiles? > > FluidSynth and QSynth use soundfont files, I believe (at least on my > machine [Ubuntu] they

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread Knute Snortum
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM Ben Engbers wrote: > > I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth > soundfiles? > FluidSynth and QSynth use soundfont files, I believe (at least on my machine [Ubuntu] they do). I use "GeneralUser's" soundfont files which I get from here:

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread Ben Engbers
Hi, I only recently picked up using lilypond again and found that writing a guitar score with several staffs and a tabstaff is not that easy. Figuring out how to accomplish everything takes a lot of time ;-) I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth soundfiles? It mi

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
On Ubuntu, I have Frescobaldi installed as a package, not a snap. (frescobaldi/noble 3.3.0+ds1-2 amd64) Le 04.02.25 à 08:23, Eby Mani a écrit : Hello Brian, Linux Mint, if you are new to linux, they still use native packages instead of snap / flatpack that occupy gigabytes of storage space.

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Eby Mani
Hello Brian, Linux Mint, if you are new to linux, they still use native packages instead of snap / flatpack that occupy gigabytes of storage space. Use built-in Package Manager / Software manager for Lilypond and Frescobaldi installation. Or if you wish the latest packages, you may download fr

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
I am on Unbuntu 24.04.1 LTS now, and have been using Frescobaldi/Lilypond without any problem for several years on Linux Ubuntu, and without insalling anything else... Present version Frescobaldi: 3.3.0 Extension API: 0.9.0 Python: 3.11.9 python-ly: 0.9.8 Qt: 5.15.10 PyQt: 5.15.11 sip: 6.

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Knute Snortum
On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM Valentin Petzel wrote: > > The not so nice thing: Frescobaldi is not really maintained, and still > based > on the qt5 framework, which has been deprecated by the qt company (at > least > the GPL licenced version). The KDE team has take the job of patching it > whil

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread J. G. Stalnaker
Noting that a thread in this list in the past month revealed that Frescobaldi has had significant work done for a version 4 release that updates dependencies (see posts by Knute, Jan 15th). Target release date was Jan 20th. Regards. -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Brian, > Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac > Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a > laptop with a Linux OS and wondered if someone could advise a LInux > distro that has these packages or something similar. > > Thanks, > > Br

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Tim's Bitstream via LilyPond user discussion
> On Feb 3, 2025, at 12:13 PM, Brian O'Folan wrote: > > Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac > Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a > laptop with a Linux OS and wondered if someone could advise a LInux > distro that has these packag

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Raphael Mankin
On 03/02/2025 17:55, Brian O'Folan wrote: Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a laptop with a Linux OS and wondered if someone could advise a LInux distro that has these packages or something simi

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread J. G. Stalnaker
Ben, Can you install fluidsynth/QSynth and the fluidsynth soundfiles (GM)? I've done that on every distro I've used for a long time. I configure QSynth to show its running process as 'QSynth' and in FB's midi settings I choose that. Also, QSynth has to be configured for the correct sound system (A

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi Brian welcome to the dark side! I wouldn't recommend my distro (gentoo) if you're just starting out with Linux (it's … high-maintenance), so instead I'll give you this advice: Frescobaldi 3.3.0 has been out for a long time now, which means it's available on pretty much any Linux distro (tho

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 3 Feb 2025, at 18:55, Brian O'Folan wrote: > > I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac > Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. Both, latest version, are healthy in MacPorts.

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Jakob Pedersen
EndeavourOS (based on Arch) offers both stable and dev versions on Lilypond, and latest Frescobaldi. Jakob On 03.02.2025 18.55, Brian O'Folan wrote: Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a laptop wi

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Ben Engbers
Op 03-02-2025 om 18:55 schreef Brian O'Folan: Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a laptop with a Linux OS and wondered if someone could advise a LInux distro that has these packages or something sim

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Peter Mayes
I use LP (2.25.20) and FB (3.3.0.8) on Fedora 41, and they work fine. Those from the standard repositories, not flatpak etc. On 03/02/2025 17:55, Brian O'Folan wrote: Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan t

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Jeff Kopmanis
I've used Lunbuntu, Mint and Ubuntu Budgie and had no troubles getting Lilypond and Frescobaldi installed. Both are packaged and integrate into the menu systems. The smoothest experience is Linux Mint. The other 2 are fine, but Mint is very refined. On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 1:14 PM Brian O'Folan wr

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread J. G. Stalnaker
I use MXLinux based on Debian (like the *ubuntu family) and both FB and LP are in the main Debian repositories. That said, you can also get both via flatpak. But note that the most recent versions of both are most likely not in those repositories, but can be manually downloaded and installed from

Re: Linux OS

2025-02-03 Thread Mike Andrews
It shows up on FreeBSD and the raspberry pi Linux. On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM Brian O'Folan wrote: > Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac > Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a > laptop with a Linux OS and wondered if someone cou