Mozart the Music Processor is music notation software designed to let you create scores
and parts quickly and
efficiently. It is a full featured but less
costly alternative to
other notation editors. Mozart has good
performance under
WINE versions since wine-1.0 and under
many older WINE
versions. With the
current service pack installed, Mozart's
latest version is Mozart-11.0.3.0 This
version has a gold
rating
with wine-1.4(stable) An evaluation copy is available
at no cost from the Mozart
website.
Mozart 11. Quoting its website:
"Mozart allows you to type in music notation - as easily as
entering text in a word processor - view it on the screen,
hear it, edit it, and then print high quality music scores
and individual parts for musicians."
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
All the program's functions work. Playback *requires* a midi synth
such as Timidity++ or some other ALSA accessable software or
hardware synth to be installed and running.
Generally, if you can play a midi file with a sequencer/synth that ALSA
can find, Mozart can work with it.
What does not
1) Running the program *without* a synth and note-echo turned on
causes a recursive note entry (looping).
2) Although the rendering of the 'help' functions is much improved,
some functions ordinary with Windows require a third party CHM
file viewer.
What was not tested
External Midi keyboard input
Additional Comments
In order to hear playback, the app requires a software synth
such as Timidity++ to be installed and running when the app is
started. Alternatively, a soundcard's hardware MIDI synth
running under ALSA and loaded with an appropriate GM soundfont
also works quite well.
Some keyboard shortcut keys are trapped by KDE or the Operating
System, so Mozart's shortcut re-mapping function may be needed
to re-map them. For any encountered difficulties, refer to
the quite friendly and knowledgeable Yahoo user group at:
http://www.mozart.co.uk/mozartists/mailinglist.htm
Export of image file formats such as JPG, PNG, GIF,TIF, and BMP
may require a native Windows gdiplus DLL and winecfg setting to
use it.
