What is Redrose

Redrose is an integrated environment to write music in the ABC syntax and play, preview and print the sheet music.

Redrose program is free software, copyright (C) 2021 Benoît Rouits and released under the GNU General Public License version 3. It is delivered as is in the hope it can be useful, but with no warranty.

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Source code

Redrose source code is browsable at the github browser of Redrose. You can checkout it with a git client program, e.g: by typing in a command-line shell:

$ git clone https://github.com/be1/redrose.git
$ cd redrose

Releases

You can download the source package of version 0.5.16 of Redrose.

Build the program with the following commands in a command-line shell:

$ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libdrumstick-dev libspectre-dev libfluidsynth-dev abcm2ps abcmidi
$ tar zxvf redrose-0.5.16.tar.gz
$ cd redrose-0.5.16
$ qmake -config release
$ make && sudo make install

Notice current version of Redrose needs the following libraries and binaries:

libspectre library and headers
drumstick-file library and headers
libfluidsynth library and headers
Qt version 5 or 6 library and headers
abcm2ps binary program
optionally abc2midi binary program (from abcmidi)

Donations

Donations are very welcomed to help me to maintain this software.

If you want, you can donate money through liberapay:

Or if you prefer, you can use Paypal:

Happy music writing!