Songwrite 2

[61] OOmadness / Songwrite 2

Songwrite 2 : Documentation - Download - Features - Mailing list - Screenshot - Songwrite on Gna!

Songwrite 2 is a tablature (guitar partition) editor.

Songwrite 2 is coded in Python and uses Gtk and Cairo; it relies on Timidity to play midi and on GNU Lilypond for printing.

Songwrite 2 is Free Software, under the GNU GPL. It requires:

Python 2.5
EditObj 2
GTK 2, Cairo and their Python bindings
GNU Lilypond (version 2.11.20 is recommanded)
LaTeX
Timidity (or any other MIDI player)
Ghostview (or any other Postscript viewer)

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Jiba, 11/01/2007

[174] Songwrite 2 0.1.2

Songwrite 2 0.1.2 fixes a few bugs that were remaining in 0.1 and 0.1.1, namely :

Guitar pro importer was missing
Fix copy / paste of notes with alterations on staffs
Fix view name translation
Fix "AttributeError: 'ObjectPack' object has no attribute 'song'" when selecting notes
Fix copy-paste between different windows

You can get it there.

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Jiba, 10/28/2007

[171] Songwrite 2 0.1

Here is a first stable release of Songwrite 2!

Songwrite 2 is a tablature editor for Linux, written in Python with GTK and Cairo. A tablature is a guitar partition ; Songwrite 2 supports many string instruments in addition to traditional staffs.

With Songwrite 2 you can...

...edit tablatures (guitar, bass, banjo,...) and staff, and add lyrics to write your own songs !
...create your own songbook
...play your partitions
...print your partitions and your songs
...convert automatically staffs to tablatures and tablatures to staffs
...export your songs into many formats (PDF, Midi, ASCII tablatures, GNU Lilypond, LaTeX, PostScript,...)
...import Guitar Pro 3 / 4 file (experimental)

Songwrite 2 is a complete rewrite of Songwrite 1 with :

A new interface based on Gtk 2 and Cairo, with anti-aliasing
A new staff rendering engine, now handling tonality and alteration correctly
A new plugin system
A new documentation
Printing support updated for recent version of Lilypond (2.11.20 and above)

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Jiba, 10/02/2007

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Jiba, 10/02/2007

[143] Songwrite 2 0.1rc1

This is the very first release of Songwrite 2!

It is a complete rewrite with a new interface based on Gtk 2 and Cairo. Try it immediately!

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Jiba, 07/16/2007

[136] Towards Songwrite 2 !

Here is a screenshot of an in-development version of Songwrite 2. The interface is totally rewritten.

Technically speaking, it uses GTK2 and Cairo, along with EditObj 2 (an improved version of EditObj which support GTK in addition to Tk).

Graphically speaking, it features antialiased text and graphics, funny icons, and four edition modes corresponding to the four tabs at the bottom of the window : Song mode, Partition mode, Time mode, and Note mode. The notebook automatically displays the attributes of the selected object(s) (possibly several of them).

Hope to release that soon ;-)