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Purpose and Features
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