Midi Sheet Music is a free program that plays MIDI music files while highlighting the piano notes and sheet music notes. Works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux. Features: 16 chainable banks. 16 sequencer steps per bank. Individual controls for Note, Octave, Velocity, Gate, Skip, Mute plus two. MIDI CCs or synth parameters per step. Sync-to-host and Swing functions. Optional Start/Stop/Transpose by MIDI Note command. Additional built-in monophonic synthesizer. Straightforward user interface. Size 0.4 MB / 1.9 MB. MidiKeyboard is a resizable piano keyboard to monitor/play midi notes. Fully resizable, with adjustable key width. Adjustable MIDI channel. Can use mouse clicks or qwerty keyboard to play notes (Shift-click to set qwerty octave). Optionally use Y-position of mouse click for velocity.
Aria Maestosa is a great software for those interested in a complete and professional use of their midi files but without having to pay licensing costs. Yes, Aria Maestosa is a MIDI editor and sequencer available free and open source under GPL license.
It is characterized by a very practical and intuitive GUI, and allows you to compose, edit and play midi files through an approach very smooth and slender.
Aria Maestosa is available for the most popular operating systems: Mac, Linux and Windows. Any difficulties are reported only for XP users, but can be easily fixed by reading this article.
The software is also affected by a good community that works not only for the development and improvement of the program but also takes care of the translations into other languages. At the moment Aria Maestosa is available in English, French and Czech language. Everyone can participate in the translation project simply going to this page, which explains the projects that are already closed and those still in progress.
Even the handbook is affected by the same work (currently available in English, French, Greek and Serbian/Croatian). I have made a pdf version of the manual, that you can see in html version directly on the official website at this link.
The main features of this midi sequencer can be summarized as follows:
- Multitrack display
- Several edition modes: score, keyboard (piano-roll), guitar tablature, drums
- Importazione ed esportazione di file midi (.mid)
- Gestione del tempo avanzata (possibilità di modifiche in corso di esecuzione)
- Esportazione in formato wav.
- Possibilità di lavorare su più progetti contemporaneamente
If you want to get an idea of how the software is, you can see a video recorded and uploaded from a home user. It is not very well made but I found it useful to get a general idea:
Aria Maestosa is an excellent application for managing projects midi, at least for those who seek a comprehensive software without too much complexity and carrying out their jobs well. To download Aria Maestosa, in all its versions, simply follow this link and click on that related to your operating system.
Free Mac Midi Sequencer
Notable software MIDIeditors and sequencers are listed in the following table.
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| Software | Platform | License | Developer | Editing interface | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADSR Online Midi Editor & Player | Linux, macOS, Windows | Proprietary | MidiPro.org | Event list, microtonal notation | Complete Online Midi Editor & Player. Unlimited number of tracks, which can include ADSR envelopes, low-pass filters, and LFO modulators. Supports microtonality: any synth can play 48 microtones per octave. |
| Anvil Studio | Windows | Freemium | Willow Software | Score, piano roll, tablature, event list | Full-featured MIDI editor & sequencer with staff, piano roll, percussion, event list, and audio editors. |
| Ardour | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows | GPL-2.0-or-later | Paul Davis, and The Ardour Community | Piano roll, event list | MIDI support began with version 3. |
| Aria Maestosa | Linux, macOS, Windows | GPL-2.0-or-later | MIDI sequencer/editor with score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views. | ||
| B-Step Sequencer | macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS (iPad), Android, Raspberry Pi | Proprietary | Monoplugs | A step sequencer to create arpeggios, chord progressions, basslines or percussions. Available as VST, Audio Units or standalone program | |
| Band-in-a-Box | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | PG Music | Accompaniment sequencer with audio loops and more. | |
| Steinberg Cubase | macOS, Windows (also previously for Atari ST) | Proprietary | Steinberg | Score, piano roll, event list[1] | |
| Deluxe Music Construction Set | AmigaOS, macOS | Proprietary | Electronic Arts | ||
| Digital Performer | macOS | Proprietary | Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) | ||
| DirectMusic Producer | Windows | Freeware | Microsoft | part of DirectMusic SDK | |
| Finale | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Makemusic, Inc. | Score | Composition and sequencing program, with various versions, including freeware (v. 2008 and earlier) 'NotePad' version (with very limited features) |
| FL Studio | Windows, macOS, Android, iOS | Proprietary | Image-Line | Piano roll, step sequencer | |
| GarageBand | macOS, iOS | Proprietary | Apple | Import only, saves to native format | |
| Guitar Pro | Linux, macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Arobas Music | ||
| Indaba Music | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | |||
| JFugue | Linux, macOS, Windows (Java-based) | 5: Apache-2.0 3-4: LGPL-2.1-or-later | Programming library (API) | ||
| KeyKit | Linux, Windows | Free for non-commercial use, source available | |||
| LilyPond | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows | GPL-3.0-or-later | |||
| Live | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Ableton | Piano roll | |
| Logic Pro | macOS (also previously for Windows & Atari ST) | Proprietary | Apple/Emagic (formerly named C-Lab | Piano roll, step editor, event list | |
| LMMS | Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, Windows | GPL-2.0-or-later | Piano roll, step sequencer | DAW; VST, LADSPA support. As of March 30, 2011 no MIDI aftertouch support | |
| MAGIX Samplitude | Windows | Proprietary | MAGIX | ||
| Master Tracks Pro | Windows | Proprietary | GVOX (originally Passport Designs) | Full-featured GUI MIDI sequencer with notation screen (requires supplied Anastasia TrueType or Type1 font), event editor, MCI, SMPTE sync., etc. Tested to work under Win 10 1903. | |
| MIDI Converter Studio | Windows | Shareware | ManiacTools | MIDI file converter, karaoke converter | |
| Mixcraft | Windows | Proprietary | Acoustica | Audio and MIDI sequencer, support for VSTis, MIDI recording, editing, and playback | |
| Mozart | Windows | Proprietary | David Webber | Music notation software for simple tunes to full scores of up to 64 parts | |
| MuLab | Windows, macOS | Proprietary | Mutools | MIDI and audio full DAW. Support for customizable modular DSP graphs. For electronic music but not only. | |
| MultitrackStudio | Windows, macOS, iOS | Proprietary | Bremmers Audio Design | MIDI and audio full DAW, simple user interface, flexible MIDI editing | |
| MusE | Linux | GPL-2.0-or-later | Piano roll, event list | Open source midi and audio work station with support for VST, DSSI, LADSPA and LV2 | |
| MuseScore | Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS (partial) | GPL-2.0-only | Werner Schweer | Score | Music notation software with full MusicXML support. Piano roll editor, unlimited parts. good stability below 300 000 notes, edit multiple files at once, user friendly GUI, portable edition. |
| Musink | Windows | Proprietary | Lee Reid | Music notation freeware with MIDI output, loop, and playback functionality | |
| Notation Composer | Windows, with Wine support | Proprietary | Notation Software | Score, piano roll | Full featured notation software program and MIDI sequencer |
| NoteEdit | Linux | GPL-2.0-or-later | Defunct; last stable release September 2006 | ||
| NoteWorthy Composer | Windows | Proprietary | Noteworthy Software | Can import and export MIDI data, but only edit and display it as a musical score. Runs correctly in wine. | |
| Overture | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Sonic Scores (formerly called Geniesoft) | Score, piano roll, MIDI sequencer | Notation, tab, piano-roll, MIDI/step sequencing, VST/VSTi host, hybrid DAW, video sync |
| Podium | Windows | Proprietary | Zynewave | ||
| Pro Tools | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Avid | Score, piano roll, event list | |
| Qtractor | Linux | GPL-2.0-or-later | Audio MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ in the Qt framework | ||
| REAPER | Linux, macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Cockos | Score, piano roll, event list | Supports guitar tabs and MIDI2Tab conversion with TabEditor plug |
| Reason | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Propellerhead | Piano roll | |
| Renoise | Linux, macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Tracker | Demo version available | |
| Rosegarden | Linux | GPL-2.0-or-later | Score, piano roll, event list | Audio, MIDI sequence, record. Win VST support, LADSPA, JACK | |
| Scala | Linux, macOS, Windows | Freeware, noncommercial | Manuel Op de Coul | Specializes in tuning; converts ascii score file to MIDI | |
| Seq24 | Linux, Windows | GPL-2.0-or-later | Piano roll | MIDI loops sequencer | |
| Sibelius | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | Avid (originally Sibelius Software) | Score, piano roll, tablature | Live scoring of sheet music from MIDI input |
| Studio One | macOS, Windows | Proprietary | PreSonus | Score, piano roll, drum editor | |
| Sonar | Windows | Proprietary | Cakewalk | Piano roll, event list | |
| TineFune | Linux, Windows | Proprietary | TineFune, LLC | Piano roll, event list | MIDI sequencer with a Web Browser GUI, no windows or menu clutter |
| TuxGuitar | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows (Java-based) | LGPL-2.1-only | Tablature editor | ||
| Z-Maestro | Windows | Proprietary | 'Lite' version: limited tracks, I/O. |
See also[edit]
Midi Sequencing Software
References[edit]
Cached
- ^'MIDI Editors'. steinberg.help. Retrieved 2017-11-28.