For anyone who remembers NoteEdit, NtEd is the improved successor, written by the same author. It works pretty much like NoteEdit as far as composing and editing music, importing and exporting MIDI and other file formats, etc.. Unlike NoteEdit, though, NtEd is a WYSIWYG “music processor”; it produces pages on the screen that are identical to what you can export to PostScript/PDF, print on paper, etc.

Plus, if you have TiMidity++ installed and your sound properly configured, you can easily play any music that appears in an NtEd score, including one imported from a MIDI file (NtEd does the import pretty quickly, and often pretty well). All you need to do is, first, run this from the command line:

timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100 &

Then, under the “Configure → Configure MIDI” menu item in NtEd, select one of the listed TiMidity MIDI ports, and away you go! If you don't believe it, there are a number of example scores that should convince you. No more frustration with wretched MIDI sequencers that don't work (such as I endured for years on Mandriva Linux using Rosegarden, NoteEdit, etc.)!

This .PET package is derived from a Slackware package that didn't include the many little graphics for the HTML documentation, so I got the graphics from the source tarball and included them. You may not see the documentation under the “Help” menu, but it will be there, beginning at /usr/doc/nted-1.4.15/nted/en/index.html .