MidiNotate Composer

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MidiNotate Player, MidiNotate Musician, and MidiNotate Composer are all members of the product family developed by Notation Software, Inc.

The original MIDI to notation technology used in MidiNotate software was created by Notation Software, Inc. in 1994 for Jump!Music’s Piano Discovery System, an educational music program. The original MidiNotate MIDI transcription program was released in 1999 with a MIDI to sheet music notation transcription engine, which allowed the user to see the music notation of a MIDI song file. It also allowed some minor modifications of the music notation and performance playback.

Development continued on a more powerful music editing and performing program, which would also include a more intuitive interface. In October of 2004, MidiNotate Musician and MidiNotate Composer were released. Both programs use a MIDI-to-notation transcription engine improved from the original MidiNotate.

MidiNotate programs maintain a clean display by the use of special palettes that have the editing tools that pertain to a selected object (e.g., note, barline, etc.). When a particular object is selected, the tools related to that object appear in the palette, eliminating clutter in the interface. Many editing tasks are also done graphically, rather than via lists of MIDI events.

MidiNotate Player is a free player that has the same MIDI to notation transcription capabilities as Musician and Composer, but is limited to playback with the display of the notes as they play. It can play and transcribe to sheet music MIDI files, as well as the proprietary .not NoteSoft files created using other MidiNotate programs. The Player also prints out the transcribed scores.

MidiNotate Musician has the following capabilities:

Playback files while watching the notes play on the screen
Make practice loops with changes in tempo
Add lyrics
Transposition of key for performance, as well as transposing instruments such as clarinet
Easy notes view for aid in learning notation (this view displays note names inside the noteheads)
Various types of printed parts preparation for scoring (extracting parts with backward/forward capability, etc.)
Splitting of hands for piano parts, to make readable sheet music from some single-track MIDI performances
Numerous annotation capabilities for engraving of scores
Splitting of drum track for fine editing of different drum instruments

MidiNotate Composer has all the capabilities of Musician, as well as compositional and playback performance editing (i.e., sequencing) capabilities:

Editing of notes for either notation and/or playback performance
Entering of notes via mouse, computer keyboard, or recording via MIDI keyboard in real time
Multiple-staff (as many as necessary) capability
MIDI controller editing using graphical editing interface