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If you don't want to use a computer for your composing, skip to the next chapter.

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For this tutorial, you will need notation software, aka a Note Editor. A good point to start is free and

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open source MuseScore , which works on GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows, and has a built-in

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synthesizer, eliminating the need for setting up MIDI. There are also several alternatives for Linux.

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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

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There's a free music workstation called Frinika that features piano roll, score, and tracker interface

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as well. It's opensource and written in Java. You can run it without installation through Java

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(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
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NoteEdit. Check it, and press OK.

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If you aren't hearing any sound, download EasyUbuntu, http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ ,

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MAKE SURE YOU CHECK MIDI!!!, then type this into the terminal.

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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
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