Redrose

ABC music notation integrated environment

Dependencies

• drumstick-file version 1 or 2 (library and headers)
• fluidsynth version < 2.3 or >= 2.3 (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 or Ubuntu Focal, 20.04)

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

Setting up with Qt6 (Ubuntu Noble, 24.04)

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

For MIDI generation, the internal ABC parser is weak and does not generate "Guitar chords". You can use abc2midi for that if you prefer (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