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AbcMus

  • Originator: Henrik Norbeck
  • Functions: Editor, Playback, Utility
  • OS: Win
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  • Description: AbcMus is a program for tunebooks in ABC format, created by Henrik Norbeck.
    • Playback with a nice, definable style, via the sound card. Makes the tunes worth listening to. The best ABC player software so far?
    • Play only part of a tune. Simply mark the part you want to play.
    • Fast search for a text through all your ABC files (composer, name, etc).
    • Loose match option for search. Handy when names are spelled in several ways.
    • Powerful music search to match a melody or tune, even finding transposed tunes or variations.
    • Automatic chordsetting utility, transposing of tunes and other abc tools.
    • Easy handling of ABC tunebooks. Copy, move and edit tunes, etc.
    • Automated generation of tune lists, cheat sheets, tune indexes, etc, with flexible format.
    • Import files from some other common tune file formats.
    • Save tunes as MIDI files.
  • URL: http://www.norbeck.nu/abcmus/

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  • Posted: Thursday August 28 2003, 09:41 (CST)
  • By: alex
  • I've been using this program for several years now, and I have yet to see another to match it for useability and value for money. Its playback is as realistic as it is possible to be with MIDI, it produces good midi files for use in sequencers etc.,and it has a host of useful searching/sorting tools.

    I use it in conjunction with RunABC and Ghostscript for printing and ABCTools for transposing etc. A perfect combination of programs ..
  • Posted: Saturday December 14 2002, 09:35 (CST)
  • By: John B. Walsh
  • I recommend this to anyone wanting a good
    abc player program: it plays back the standard
    types of tunes with the right feeling: strong
    beats emphasized, a bit of swing, etc. It's
    customizable, too, tho you have to know a fair
    amount to do the more advanced adjusting.

    I've been using it for most of my tune-editing,
    and the search feature is both fast and useful:
    it will search for tunes by title, or by musical
    phrase, which is useful for finding that
    tune whose title is just on the tip of the tongue...


    particularly if you have a large collection
    of abc files.
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