| Purpose
and Features |
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| Purpose:
Download MIDI files from the Internet and transcribe them to sheet music that you
can print, or view on the screen as the notes play. |
Yes |
Yes |
Search the Internet for MIDI files, download, and unzip them using either a built-in
Internet browser or your preferred browser. |
Yes |
Yes |
Transcribe MIDI files to sheet music with excellent accuracy, including
swing rhythms, grace notes, trills and tremolos. |
Yes |
Yes |
Correct any errors that might occur in the transcription of note
rhythms. |
Yes |
Yes |
Automatically analyze and display chord names. |
Yes |
Yes |
Purpose:
Enjoy and study the music notation of a song as it plays. |
Yes |
Yes |
Highlight the notes and lyrics as they play. |
Yes |
Yes |
Slow down the tempo so that you can hear the rhythms more clearly. |
Yes |
Yes |
Selectively change the volume of instruments, so that you can focus your listening on a particular
instrument or voice. "Solo" a track while the others are muted. |
Yes |
Yes |
Purpose:
Practice music as you sing along or play your instrument with accompaniment |
Yes |
Yes |
Transpose the pitch to match your voice or instrument range. |
Yes |
Yes |
Automatically turn pages. |
Yes |
Yes |
Set up practice loops, to repeat a section of the song at optionally increasing
tempos. |
Yes |
Yes |
Execute commands from your MIDI keyboard or other MIDI instrument, such as Start Playback,
End Playback, and Fast Forward. |
Yes |
Yes |
Purpose:
Quickly prepare parts from a MIDI file, for use by yourself or musicians
in a performing group. |
Yes |
Yes |
Prepare an "Easy Notes" part for student musicians, showing
note letters (for example "C") in the noteheads. |
Yes |
Yes |
Prepare a "Sing-Along" vocal part, for easy sight-reading from
the screen while the song plays. |
Yes |
Yes |
Prepare a fake book lead sheet, with melody and chords. |
Yes |
Yes |
Prepare a piano reduction of a score that has multiple instruments or voices. |
Yes |
Yes |
Extract individual parts for the players or singers in your music group. |
Yes |
Yes |
Transpose an instrument's part to its natural key, such as for a Bb clarinet, |
Yes |
Yes |
Split a single piano/keyboard staff (track) into right- and left-hand staves. |
Yes |
Yes |
Split a MIDI drum staff (track) into separate one-line drum instrument staves. |
Yes |
Yes |
Split a staff (track) into melody and accompaniment parts. |
Yes |
Yes |
Purpose:
Format and print the score and parts. |
Yes |
Yes |
Print an entire score, or an individual part. (In MidiNotate Player,
the part must have been previously prepared by another MidiNotate product and saved in the NoteSoft file). |
Yes |
Yes |
Choose the default font size, face, and style for various categories of
music symbols and types of text. The default can be overridden for specific
items. |
Yes |
Yes |
Specify the default horizontal spacing (degree of stretch or compression)
and default vertical spacing between staves. |
Yes |
Yes |
Control the layout of each page:
- page
breaks, system (staff or "line") breaks
- number
of measures on any given system,
- number
of systems on any given page
- vertical
spacing between any pair of staves
- vertical
spacing between adjacent systems
- relative
horizontal spacing of individual measures within a system (staff or "line").
|
Yes |
Yes |
Add and control the placement of page title, footer and header text. |
Yes |
Yes |
Show or hide empty staves. |
Yes |
Yes |
Expand or collapse multiple-measure rests. |
Yes |
Yes |
Format parts using templates. |
Yes |
Yes |
Display one-line drum instrument staves using special percussion noteheads. |
Yes |
Yes |
Purpose:
Re-arrange the notes of an existing song, or create music from scratch. |
No |
Yes |
Create a new song using a pre-defined template for a variety of solo instruments,
duet pairs, small ensembles, and large ensembles. Prepare your own custom song
template. |
No |
Yes |
Add notes by whatever method is most convenient for you:
- use
the mouse and computer keyboard.
- use
Sequential Note Entry, where you rarely have to select
the note duration, even when the notes vary.
- use
Step-Time recording, one note or chord at a time, from your MIDI keyboard
or input device.
|
No |
Yes |
Change pitches of notes. |
No |
Yes |
Add staves (tracks or instrument parts). |
No |
Yes |
Add measures. |
No |
Yes |
Add ornaments:
- grace
notes
- trills
- turns
- mordents
- arpeggios
- tremolos
|
No |
Yes |
Change the meter and barline positions. |
No |
Yes |
Purpose:
Record music from your MIDI keyboard or input device. |
No |
Yes |
Record directly from your MIDI instrument. Your performance is transcribed using the same excellent MIDI-to-notation
transcription technology that MidiNotate products use to transcribe MIDI
files to sheet music. |
No |
Yes |
Set the tempo for recording. |
No |
Yes |
Set the number of pick-up measures. |
No |
Yes |
Record (punch in) into a selected region of a staff (track). |
No |
Yes |
Add (punch in) a recording of pitch bends or MIDI controllers, on top
of previously recorded notes. |
No |
Yes |
Purpose:
Edit the performance (MIDI) of the song. |
No |
Yes |
MidiNotate
Composer offers you the powerful features of a typical MIDI sequencer program, but
in a more musically oriented way - graphed directly on top of the music notation. You can focus on your music, using Composer's intuitive and fun tools to refine the details of your performance without knowing MIDI. |
No |
Yes |
Edit the exact as-performed rhythms of notes while viewing Piano Roll
Notation that is drawn on top of the notation. |
No |
Yes |
Edit the loudness of individual notes while viewing "vectors"
(lines drawn at an angle from each notehead) that graphically show the
loudness of each note. |
No |
Yes |
Snap ("quantize") the as-performed attack or release of a note
to its notated rhythm. |
No |
Yes |
Lock the as-performed rhythm of a note, so you can
change only its notated rhythm. |
No |
Yes |
Edit the performance of ornaments: grace notes, trills, turns,
tremolos, and arpeggios. |
No |
Yes |
Graphically edit the song tempo, to enhance dynamics and expression. |
No |
Yes |
Graphically edit the volume level, left-to-right pan, pedal, and pitch
bend activity in a track. |
No |
Yes |
Graphically edit any MIDI controller data. |
No |
Yes |