If you try it, you find you spend more time spotting errors and fixing them than is pleasant. In an ideal world we would just ‘play in’ the music, but this cannot be done reliably. This can be used for transcribing scores. Unique to Denemo are methods to enter music in a musical, rather than mechanical, manner.
See comparison with Musescore, Finale or Sibelius. This represents an enormous practical improvement over the popular programs which require you to re-position colliding notation constantly as you enter the music. Some final tweaks can be done on the typeset score with the mouse if needed (watch demo). The typesetting is done in the background while you work, and is generally flawless publication quality. During input Denemo displays the staffs in a simple fashion, so you can enter and edit the music efficiently. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard (watch demo), or played in via MIDI controller (watch demo), or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer’s soundcard.ĭenemo uses LilyPond which generates beautiful sheet music to the highest publishing standards. Denemo is a free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation which it typesets using the LilyPond music engraver.
