Publisher's Description
From Zaristow Software:
abc is a text format for the notation of music. BarFly is a text editor which can play abc tunes embedded in text or display them in regular staff notation or in four-line Gregorian chant notation. It can export pictures of the music, standard midi or audio files, and has lots of useful utility functions, e.g. renumber, transpose, reformat or analyse abc tunes. BarFly supports a number of powerful extensions to the abc language such as multivoice, macros and redefinable symbols, and can handle extremely complex abcs. BarFly comes with lots of documentation, tutorials and examples.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed a bug which caused the program to lose track of its windows, misbehave and eventually crash after using the Print... or Page Setup... commands under some versions of Leopard.
- The File Search command will now search any files with a .abc or .txt extension in addition to files with the file type set to "TEXT".
- Using aligned words (w:) after un-aligned words (W:) in a multi-voice tune will no longer cause the program to crash. (It still won't work - you should not ... See all new features
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"Useful tool for .abc file editing"
Version: BarFly 1.7.5
Pros
This has many useful features for a musician manipulating abc files. I particularly like how easy it is to not only transpose pieces, but also to do things like changing modes (especially useful when comparing variations of tunes.)
Cons
Barfly can be much more finicky when it comes to the abc formatting that it can use compared to the other abc app I use, Skink- particularly when working with multi-staff formats. The sheet music rendering isn't as elegant as most notation software.
Summary
This is a must-have for anyone who arranges sheet music from .abc files, an easy to learn format which has a huge online repository of free tunes, especially for Celtic and other traditional and folk music. This program is ideal for all abc needs, but it has certain functionalities, mentioned above, that both other freeware and most commercial notation programs (among those that can use .abc files) can not. The GUI is not very mac-like, and the sheet music rendering is functional at best, so I would recommend using other apps for printing purposes.
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