So, recently I've taken to listening to classical music in the car when I'm stuck in traffic (which really only lasts like, 5 minutes, but whatever), or when I'm sick of listening to that Sleep Country USA ad for the 18 millionth time; and today I was finally able to envision musical arrangements in my head for the first time in about 15 years. I was classically trained in music theory for 10 years, both in school and privately, and I really miss it. Obviously, I can't exactly go pick up a baritone sax or a piano on a whim, and my neighbors would kill me even if I could; but I could pick up some arrangement software and play around with that.
So, does anyone know of any decent, free musical composition/arrangement software, that I could play with (on a PC)?
#2
drifter
Found this thread on Reddit with some suggestions. If you end up trying MuseScore, you'll probably need to collect your own GM sound fonts to make playback sound good.
#3
PatrThom
You had me up until you got to "free."
It's a shame something like ConcertWare is not available, it would've probably been ideal for what you wanted.
--Patrick
#4
Gared
Well, I'm just looking to play around right now. It's not like I'm going to be making a living writing operas or anything. Though, if there's some low budget software out there, I could consider that.
#5
GasBandit
I used to dabble in the Modplug Tracker (and various other dos-based MOD trackers before that, but modplug is windows) quite a bit, and it may be a bit outdated and esoteric/arcane, but it's free.
