Re: [school-discuss] TuxPaint and MyPaint

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Subject: Re: [school-discuss] TuxPaint and MyPaint

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:23:31 -0400

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Thought I'd add Grafx2 to the list of graphics programs:

http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/

I think it could make a decent replacement for Windows Paint on some systems and it works on a variety of operating systems.

I haven't used Band in a Box, but I do my own music composition and also create Karaoke midi files with lyrics. I really like ABC notation for music composition. There are a variety of tools available for it ( http://abcnotation.com/software ). Rather than go into a lot of details in this post about how I use ABC notation to create various music files (Karaoke midi, wave, etc.), I'll refer anyone who's interested in further information to my web page about it:

http://www.distasis.com/recipes/music.htm

I really like Timidity for working with midi and Karaoke midi files. However, this tool looks like it could be useful:

http://sites.google.com/site/bashkaraoke/

Haven't had time to try it out myself yet.

Sincerely,

Laura