MidiNotate and MidiNotate Composer

by Notation Software, Inc.
for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

MidiNotate Musician is an invaluable tool for any musician who reads musical notation or wishes he could. Follow the notes on your screen as you listen to your favorite music, whether a song or a symphony. Musician is an eye-opening study aid, a source of accurate sheet music, an untiring accompanist, and an excellent practice tool.

MidiNotate's built-in Internet browser helps you find and download MIDI and Karaoke files, and converts them to sheet music which you can print or view on the screen during playback!

MidiNotate Features:

• Downloads and unzips MIDI and Karaoke files from the Internet with a built-in browser.
• Converts MIDI and Karaoke files to sheet music.
• Lets you correct music notation errors MidiNotate might make in transcribing the MIDI file to the score.
• Prints entire score, or selected instrument parts, and any selected range of measures.
• Analyzes the harmonies of a score to determine and display chord names, such as C7, Dm, Gmaj7, and C79.
• Plays back score while highlighting notes.
• Automatically turns pages.
• Offers control of tempo and per-instrument volume during playback.
• Lets you practice a section of song in a repeat loop with optionally increasing tempo.

MidiNotate converts MIDI files to scores more accurately than any music software offered at any price!

Use MidiNotate for entertainment, music practice, and study:

• Print free sheet music from a MIDI file if you cannot find the score in a local store or catalogue.
• Sing along or play your instrument, while reading the score from the screen with accompaniment.
• If you hear a MIDI song arranged as you would like to play it, now you can see the notes and learn them.
• If you compose or arrange music, study the scores of your favorite songs or pieces as they play.
• Focus your listening and study of scores by adjusting volume levels of selected instruments, and by slowing down the tempo.

Additional Features:

• Formats score to fit any printer page size, and any window size without scrollbars.
• Displays and prints notes at any point size.
• Merges lyrics and melody tracks to create vocal parts.
• Creates "fake book" style sheet music by analyzing and displaying chords, and merging the lyrics and melody tracks.
• Includes jazz/swing transcription option which displays quarter note plus eighth note triplets as simple eighth note pairs, for example.
• Intelligently splits piano/keyboard tracks in to left- and right-hand staves.
• Extracts instrument parts for printing or selective viewing on screen.
• Optionally hides empty staves.
• Lets you transpose instrument parts, insert key signatures and clef changes.
• Lets you reassign tracks to different MIDI instrument sounds.
• Lets you delete written-out repeats in a MIDI file, replacing them with notated repeat marks.
• Lets you jump to another song location during playback.
• Optionally mutes selected instruments, or solos an instrument (while muting all others) during playback.
• Saves and recalls the locations of your favorite MIDI file web sites as bookmarks in folders you define.
• Supports external MIDI devices connected via your sound card MIDI Out connector(s).

MidiNotate Composer

MidiNotate Composer provides an easy way to create or arrange your own music. You can write your own music, or you can start with music downloaded from the internet and then arrange it to suit yourself. No matter where your inspiration comes from, Composer will help you produce great-looking sheet music with ease. And using a musician-friendly method, you can edit the playback of your piece until it suits you exactly.

You can use MidiNotate Composer to arrange music to fit your own personal musical style. Transpose the music to suit your instrument or voice range. Prepare fake book lead sheets for guitar or keyboard. After creating your music with MidiNotate Composer, let the software provide the accompaniment as you play or sing along, or set up practice loops to perfect your performance.

Enjoy composing with notes that you can see and hear, and easily change. Use your mouse or MIDI keyboard to enter notes in real time or step time. Assure accurate notation by adding a wide variety of music annotations and ornaments.

If you are a music teacher or parent, use MidiNotate Composer to arrange music to fit the skill level of your student or child. Increase the font size for easy reading. For beginning students, display "Easy Notes" pitch letters inside of the large notes. Add music instructions in free text throughout the musical piece.

You can use Composer to arrange music for any group of instruments or voices. After easily preparing a conductor's score; you can independently edit each instrumental or vocal part, knowing it will always be synchronized with the conductor's score.

Prepare lessons for music students, arrange church music for the choir each week, write songs to sing with your family, customize music for your instrument, create sheet music for your unique musical group.

Notation Musician

MidiNotate Composer is an ideal creative tool for the everyday musician who reads music.