Music Theory/Software Needed

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For this tutorial, you will need notation software, aka a Note Editor. There are several good Open Source ones for Linux. For Windows, Coda Technology offers Finale Notepad as a downloadable, ten dollar version of their commercial Finale notation software. Alternatives include Lilypond, MusiXTeX and various abc notation programs

(If you are using windows but don't want to pay money, try downloading Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntu.com. If you don't want to put it as a permanent operating system, then you can use VMWare to make a Virtual PC.)

For this tutorial, we will be using NoteEdit. To download it on Ubuntu, go to Application -> Add/Remove. From there make sure 3rd party programs are enabled, then do a search for NoteEdit. Check it, and press OK.

If you aren't hearing any sound, download EasyUbuntu, http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK MIDI!!!, then type this into the terminal.

 timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0 > /dev/null &

This command only needs to be typed in once, but will have to be redone every time you restart Ubuntu.