Lomse objective is provide software developers with a library to add capabilities to any program for rendering, editing and playing back music scores. It is written in C++ and it is free open source and platform independent. Lomse stands for LenMus Open Music Score Edition Library.
Please be aware that Lomse is a work in progress, not having yet reached version 1.0. This means that the library is operative but with limitations. In particular, support for music scores is currently limited. You are welcome to join this non-commercial project and collaborate in its development.
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Lomse is distributed under the BSD 2-clause license, a permissive open source license to allow Lomse to be used in any projects, whether open source or proprietary. This license is a GPL compatible license, so you can use Lomse in GPL licensed projects.
For details, see file LICENSE.
- Platform independent.
- Can be safely used in commercial closed source projects.
- MusicXML import.
- Renderization of full documents (paragraphs, tables, lists, scores, images, etc.).
- Support for score playback, by generating MIDI events in real time
- Support for visual tracking effects (i.e. moving cursor) during playback in sync. with MIDI events or with external player.
- Support for music scores edition.
- Music renderization is based on fonts compliant with the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) specification.
If you would like to contribute or to join this project, you are welcome. The project has no commercial aim and all contributions are welcomed!
By contributing to the Lomse repository through pull-request, comment, or otherwise, the contributor releases their content to the license and copyright terms as described in the LICENSE. Each contributor holds copyright over their contributions to Lomse.
Read Contributing for information about how to contribute.
Feel free to ask any question or to send feedback and suggestions for improvements. Thank you!
If you encountered a bug, please tell about it. Explain what you did and how you encountered it, and what happened afterwards. Most importantly, state how to go about and recreate the same error. Please be as descriptive as possible and remember to give exact error messages, program version number and operating system name and version.
For help, feedback or bug reports go to the Lomse issues page and create a new issue.
Thanks a lot for helping make Lomse better!