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EasyABC

An open source ABC editor for Windows, OSX and Linux. It is published under the GNU Public License.

Features

  • Good ABC standard coverage thanks to internal use of abcm2ps and abc2midi
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Zoom support
  • Import MusicXML, MIDI and Noteworthy Composer files.
  • Export to MIDI, SVG, PDF (single tune or whole tune book).
  • Select notes by clicking on them and add music symbols by using drop-down menus in the toolbar.
  • Play the active tune as midi (using SoundFont)
  • See which notes are currently playing (Follow score)
  • Contextual guidance (ABC Assist)
  • Record songs from midi directly in the program (no OSX support at the moment).
  • Just press Rec, play on your midi keyboard and then press Stop.
  • The musical score is automatically updated as you type in ABC code.
  • Support for unicode (utf-8) and other encodings.
  • Transpose and halve/double note length functionality (using abc2abc)
  • An abcm2ps format file can easily be specified in the settings.
  • ABC fields in the file header are applied to every single tune in a tune book.
  • Automatic alignment of bars on different lines
  • Available in Italian, French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch and English
  • Functions to generate incipits, sort tunes and renumber X: fields.
  • Musical search function - search for note sequences irrespectively of key, etc.

Credits - software components used by EasyABC

  • abcm2ps for converting ABC code to note images (developed/maintained by Jean-François Moine)
  • abc2midi for converting ABC code to midi (by James Allwright, maintained by Seymour Shlien)
  • xml2abc for converting from MusicXML to ABC (by Willem Vree)
  • abc2xml for converting from ABC to ABC (by Willem Vree)
  • nwc2xml for converting from Noteworthy Composer format to ABC via XML (by James Lee)
  • wxPython cross-platform user-interface framework
  • scintilla for the text editor used for ABC code
  • python midi package for the initial parsing of midi files to be imported
  • pygame (which wraps portmidi) for real-time midi input
  • FluidSynth for playing using SoundFonts
  • Many thanks to the translators: Valerio Pelliccioni (italian), Bendix Rødgaard (danish), Frédéric Aupépin (french). Universal binaries of abcm2ps and abc2midi for OSX are available thanks to Chuck Boody.

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Keyboard shortcuts

  • F5 Refresh
  • F6 Play current song
  • F7 Stop song
  • Ctrl-Shift-F Find in Files (or show entire collection)

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