Redrose

ABC music notation integrated environment

Dependencies

• drumstick-file (library and headers)
• fluidsynth (library and headers)
• libspectre (library and headers)
• abcm2ps (program)
• abc2midi (program, optional)

Note that you must install abcm2ps binary for Redrose to display a view of the score. Note that drumstick-file must be compiled against the same QT_MAJOR_VERSION number as redrose will be compiled against.

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Setting up with Qt5 (Ubuntu Jammy, 22.04)

$ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev
$ sudo apt install qttools5-dev
$ sudo apt install qttools5-dev-tools
$ sudo apt install libdrumstick-dev
$ sudo apt install libspectre-dev
$ sudo apt install libfluidsynth-dev

Setting up with Qt6 (Ubuntu Noble, 24.04)

$ sudo apt install qt6-base-dev
$ sudo apt install qt6-tools-dev
$ sudo apt install qt6-tools-dev-tools
$ sudo apt install libdrumstick-dev
$ sudo apt install libspectre-dev
$ sudo apt install libfluidsynth-dev

Building

$ sudo apt install build-essential cmake git pkg-config
$ git clone https://github.com/be1/redrose.git
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo apt install abcm2ps
$ sudo apt install abcmidi

Starting

Launch redrose by clicking on the red rose icon, click on Score->New and type some ABC music in the editor, press Play button: you're done!

Bugs

Internal ABC parser is weak, you can use abc2midi instead (see player preferences).

Thanks

• Thanks to JF Moine for his free software abcm2ps
• Thanks to Morgan Leborgne for his QProgressIndicator free widget. https://github.com/mojocorp/QProgressIndicator