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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
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Subject: Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?
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On Apr 30, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Gary Kline wrote:

>
> 	Guys,
>
> 	This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can give me
> 	someclues.  Bearing in mind that I know zip about music
> 	composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that would
> 	generate short background slices of music?

There is almost certainly better options that what I will mention,  
but lilypond, which is primarily for music typesetting (engraving)  
can produce midi files from  your scores.  lilypond is in ports.


-j


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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/