<html><body>Hi Gavin,<br /><br /><br />I'm a bit late thanking you for the great talk and demo last month; it was much appreciated.<br /><br />I have finally installed MuseScore to have a play.<br /><br />When I ran apt-get install musescore musescore-common musescore-soundfont-gm<br /><br />it gave me Suggested packages:<br /> fluid-soundfont-gm fluidsynth timidity<br /><br />An apt-cache search of these came up with some further packages, such as fluid-soundfont-gm and fluidsynth.<br /><br />What else around Musescore have you got installed?<br /><br />I just went with my original apt-get install musescore musescore-common musescore-soundfont-gm.<br /><br />I created a simple, 4-bar song. No problem after watching your demo.<br /><br />I was quite pleased.<br /><br />However, when I went File > Save, all I got was a large window with the title "MuseScore: Save score" with nothing but grey emptiness. No change after several minutes.<br /><br />I did notice that the first two notes were in red, so looked up the Help menu. The online help is indeed good, as I found that red indicates out of range for the specified instrument :-)<br /><br />Easy to fix, all notes now black, but the save dialog still came up grey.<br /><br />So I wasn't able to save my little effort :-(<br /><br />I also couldn't work out how to play the piece back. I must have missed that part of your talk.<br /><br />I run a fully updated Debian Squeeze on a quad core amd64 8GB RAM, desktop tower.<br /><br />Any ideas?<br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>