Anybody Here Do Any Music Composition?

I am getting to the end of my simple song book, I don't really want the
next one in the course because teacher makes me play them all (Tulips From
Amsterdam for goodness sake).

Teacher uses Sibelius for arrangements, I had a look and nearly had a
strom at the price!

Can anybody recommend anything - I want to read midi files, play about
with them (including transposing them into more simple keys) and then
save/print them.

I have down-loaded a few demo apps today but they are buggy as hell, one
of them prompts you before you start that you can only use it for 35 days,
loads a file, crashes and then reminds you again about the limitation!
Goodness knows how the author expects to sell it.

Weatherlawyer...

I was shown something named along the lines of Motzart but can't
remember what it was, that did something like help compose music for
free.

I don't thing the bookmark lasted a reformat though.

I might be able to find it one evening later this week. Is there some
way to programme a search engine to look for programmes with a play on
that name?

Jeff Gaines...

Thanks for the tip :-)

I imagine it's this one:

Jeff Gaines...

Just to follow up Mozart is looking good :-)

I have juggled with and printed an arrangement of 'I Don't Wanna Talk
About It' and I'm trying it ATM. Need some help with the chords, don't
think my knowledge of music is good enough for that :-)

Weatherlawyer...

Sorry I can't help you. I meant to try it out but never got around to
it.

Jeff Gaines...

I'll get teacher to help :-)

I found Brahms as well - it's a Linux program!

Ali...

I wonder if Liszt is there as well?

I am down-loading a trial version, perhaps now I've got Sibelius and
Mozart I should try for Brahms, Beethoven etc !!!

Michaelangelo...

Progs like that need very high pc specs. A good sound card and oodles
of memory. Generally, the more sounds you want to use the more memory
you'll need. The minimum specs quoted really are minimum and for them
to work properly you will need much more processor power, memory and
free HD space than they say.

Jeff Gaines...

It's running on a Core 2 Duo E6600 with 2GB RAM, easily enough power to
fly to Mars :-)

Are you talking keyboards here?

Jeff Gaines...

I'm more interested in converting midi files into sheet music so I can use
them for practice.

Don't knock 'Tulips from Amsterdam'. I remember having to play that
when learning but I graduated to bigger and better things from it -
Animals, Pink Floyd, Gershwin, Bach, Bruckner. That was all on organ
but the old brain tumour's put paid to the music making - I suspect for
good. I can barely type these days never mind knock out 'The Arrival of
the Queen of Sheba' any more. Sorry, I can't recommend any specific
software - I'm way out of touch with all of that. Sibelius certainly
used to be the 'Photoshop' of the digital music world (not cheap but
still a lot less than Photoshop).

Jeff Gaines...

Yes, I know all the tunes in the book are helping me to learn but I just
get an image of Max Bygraves singing it and it stops me in my tracks!!!