EasyABC
EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in order to produce very readable ABC output.
- Free
- Open Source
- Mac OS X
- Windows
easyabc allows you to edit and play abc files. it supports conversion from musicxml and midi to abc. the latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in order to produce very readable abc output. direct midi input is supported for people with a midi keyboard. it uses abcm2ps for printing music and abc2midi for playing it.
features:
• good abc standard coverage thanks to internal use of abcm2ps and abc2midi• syntax highlighting• zoom support• import musicxml and midi files (the midi to abc translator is custom made in order to produce legible abc code with more sensible beams than the typical midi2abc output).• export to midi, svg, pdf (single tune or whole tune book).• select notes by clicking on them and add music symbols by using dropdown menus in the toolbar.• play the active tune as midi• record songs from midi directly in the program. just press rec, play on your midi keyboard and then press stop.• the musical score is automatically updated as you type in abc code.• support for unicode (utf8) and other encodings.• transpose and halve/double note length functionality (using abc2abc)• an abcm2ps format file can easily be specified in the settings.• abc fields in the file header are applied to every single tune in a tune book.• automatic alignment of bars on different lines• available in french, danish, swedish and english• functions to generate incipits, sort tunes and renumber x: fields.
Links to official EasyABC sites
Features
Categories
Developer Tools Games Audio and Music
Tags
music-production sheet-music abc-notation
