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MusE --- Linux (Midi) Music Editor
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Welcome to MusE, the open source MIDI/Audio sequencer.
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MusE is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Please check out the file COPYING in this directory for more
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,-----------------------------------------------------------------.
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| Many parts of MusE code are EXPERIMENTAL, and may well result |
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| in a CRASH, and who knows what other ill effects. |
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| RUN THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. |
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- Qt: Qt 3.0.0 or above ( 3.0.1 recommended )
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ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source
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MusE does _not_ compile with older versions
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Please compile Qt3 with "-thread" option so you get
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the qt-mt.so lib instead of qt.so
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- gcc 2.95.3 (untested with other versions)
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Problems are reported with 2.96, so if you're using it
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you may be unable to run MusE.
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- glibc 2.2.x (untested with other versions)
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- Linux kernel with rtc (RealTimeClock) driver (device /dev/rtc)
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(apply "low latency patches" for low timing jitter)
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- ALSA from http://www.alsa-project.org/
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checked version 0.9.x 0.6x
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also checked ALSA OSS-Emulation
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- of course: some midi gear
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- (for cvs code) automake 1.5 and autoconf 2.52
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- download source from http://muse.seh.de/muse-current-tar.bz2
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bunzip2 muse-current-tar.bz2
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tar xvof muse-current-tar </code>
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- enter dirctory muse-x.x.x and edit make.inc:
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+ Make sure that QTDIR points to the directory
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you installed your qt-libraries and header-files
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- run "qtconfig", open the tab "Library Path" and add the path of
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your installed MusE Sources to the path list;
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This is necessary for the Qt gui compiler "uic" to find the
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MusE specific widget plugins. Without you will get compilation
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make depend (optional if you don�t want to modify the source)
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(if you installed a root password, make will ask you
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that password in order to set MusE SUID root)
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Note: The executable is suid root to get access to the
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/dev/rtc device. It is _not_ sufficient to set
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access rights of /dev/rtc to 0666. Only root can
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set the necessary hight interrupt rates.
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Without the real time clock timing will be bad.
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For best timing you also have
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to set the -R option to start the sequencer
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thread with realtime priority.
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Some people reported "undefined symbol errors" due to
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missing header files. This depends on your system
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environment. Please report!
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- test the executable:
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Configure your audio device for "play", not for "record" or
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"duplex". Recording is currently not full supported.
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Next set "delay" or "framesize" of your audio device to some
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sane value. A small framesize requires running MusE with
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realtime scheduling turned on ("-R" option). Very small
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values require kernel "low latency patches". This is
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only useful if you want to play the sw synthesizer in
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Let me know whether MusE works for you !!! The address of the
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MusE mailing list is muse@seh.de. Have a look at the
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webpage http://muse.seh.de/ for details.
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