About VocalEasel

VocalEasel is a program to edit vocal jazz lead sheets and generate and play accompaniments. It is designed to be:

• Free to use and redistribute to others.
• Easy to use.
• Powerful enough to produce adequate results for typical lead sheets.
• Open, i.e.
  • You can obtain and change the source code to adapt VocalEasel to your needs (or hire somebody to do so).
  • VocalEasel tries to produce standard formats like MIDI, MP3, PDF, and MusicXML whenever possible, to give you the freedom to interchange files with other software.

VocalEasel was written and designed by Matthias Neeracher  <neeracher@mac.com>

For producing printable lead sheets, VocalEasel relies on the LilyPond system written by Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>, and others.

For producing MIDI accompaniments, VocalEasel relies on the MMA Musical Midi Accompaniment system written by Robert van der Poel <bob@mellowood.ca>.

The Band-in-a-Box import code is based on reverse engineering work by Alf Warnock <http://www.alfwarnock.info/alfs> and Alain Brenzikofer <biabconverter@brenzi.ch>