Noteedit is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. You can use it to create sheets of notes. You can import and export into many formats like midi, musicxml and lilypond.

New in 2.8.1

• New direct printing and print preview support using different backends:
• Implemented custom print dialog.
• New settings in Configure dialog for printing.
• Custom preview application (eg. kpdf, gpdf, xpdf, gv).
• Custom typesetting application (LilyPond, ABC, PMX/MusiXTeX).
• Enhanced UI:
• Mouse wheel behaviour improvements (zoom in/out, quick scroll, vertical scroll),
• Added keyboard shortcuts (select n-th voice directly, start/stop
  playback,insert special barline, goto measure),

• Few dialog improvements (insert clef or barline, page layout),
• New dialog: Insert special barline.
• Remember the last position of action (useful when deleting the whole
  blockof the score),

• Rewritten scroll behaviour (especially when the selected element is
  out-of-scope),

• Red border when Edit mode is active.
• Added vertical line which connects all staves
• MusicXML improvements:
• Import arbitrary text.
• Export arbitrary text.
• Export all strings in UTF-8 encoding.
• LilyPond export filter improvements:
• Arranger is now exported.
• Document page size is exported.
• Rit./accel. signs are printed in italic.
• Export all strings in UTF-8 encoding, if Lily >2.6 is found.
• Official Lilypond font sizes are now supported
• gcc4 complete compiler support. Many warning fixes and internal cleanups.
• Many documentation additions and fixes.
• New translations and translation updates