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Download the UltiMusE-LX™ Music Composer
What You GetWhat You Need
Latest Features and Updates 2007/10/03
What it Is and Does
UltiMusE-LX™ (the Ultimate Music Editor) is a composing program. It doesn't compose for you, but is a "word processor" for music. You draw sheet music on the screen using the mouse and/or computer keyboard. (International keyboard layouts are supported). Up to 32 parts or voices fit on up to 15 staves (staffs). Most standard musical notations are supported, as are MIDI instrument patch changes, events, and real-time clocks.As you work, you can hear your music played from any point in your score, or print any portion of it. Your completed score file documents your composition and arrangement in as much detail as you care to put in. Check out my ragtime MIDI files again; all were done with UltiMusE.
Expression features include crescendo, accelerando, accents -- and a time-warp control to "swing" sets of 8th or 16th notes, not found on some of the high-priced composing programs! Convenient menus for entering playback controls like Reverb, Pan, Volume, and Chorus.
You can easily change your mind and alter almost anything in your score -- staff positions, clefs, or MIDI channels. Move individual notes within chords (including quick changes of sharps and flats). Transpose any section to a new key -- it even updates chord symbols! Any decision you make now can be changed later.
There are hundreds of *.ume score files for free downloading from ftp://RTSI.COM and other sites, since UltiMusE was for many years the standard MIDI program for the Tandy Color Computer OS-9 community. (OS-9 is, like Linux, a superb operating system inspired by UNIX, which runs on 8-bit 6809 and larger 68000-series processors.) Read all about these.
UltiMusE is currently being ported to the Apple Mac OS-X™ environment; contact me for information.
What You Get
One "tarball" archive, umexport.tgz, contains:- install.man -- a quick guide to easy installation (it is simple!)
- umuselx -- the executable binary
- umuselx.rc -- an initial preferences options resource file
- *.ume -- several sample music score files to play with
- genmid.per -- percussion MIDI note numbers for General MIDI
Documentation -- Manuals
A new updated User's Manual is currently in progress.Read it online, or Right-click here to get a keeper copy of this single, large HTML file.
Be sure to check this date often: Last update Mar 20, 2007
This manual supersedes the older version below, kept as a backup.
There is a new (Feb 2007) FAQ (Frequently-Asked Questions) to help getting started, courtesy of David Ford.
An archive, umelxman.tgz, contains the original complete user's manual
as a set of *.htm HTML files.
This hypertext manual can be viewed using whatever you're using to read this
Web site.
Download umelxman.tgz
(Last update: 2001-12-27) (Yes, you see why we're updating it!)
What You Need -- System Requirements
If you run the Linux OS with X Windowing on an Intel PC, you can run this program. I've just updated it to run with newer LINUX systems (I now use RedHat 7.0), so you no longer need the old libc5 library. My previous 486-DX at 66 MHz and 20M RAM ran it just fine, so your system will too.To hear the music, you'll need a soundcard and/or external synthesizer with a Linux driver. To print hardcopy, you'll need a printer that supports HP's PCL3 standard or above.
Latest New Features -- Need an Upgrade?
Ver. 10.15.7F Quantizes note on/off times for cleaner importing of Std MIDI files.Ver. 10.15.7D Better handling of Directory Paths in file names.
Ver. 10.15.6A UnDo / ReDo undoes any and all wrong moves (you want this!).
View my actual source file version.h to see what features have been added (and bugs subtracted) since you last downloaded a copy. Look near the end of the listing. New users will appreciate this list of features too.
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