MidiIllustrator MIDI notation software brings your favorite songs and musical works to life.

Musicians can generate high quality, dynamic scores, fake books & lead sheets from 1000s of MIDI & Karaoke files freely available on the World Wide Web.

Composers can easily modify existing scores or create brand new scores from the ground up.

Learn new music step by step, sight reading notes from the staff OR play without reading a note, using lead sheets with chord notation, guitar frets & the on-screen piano.

Smart notation power & intuitive learning tools are common to all MidiIllustrator products.

MidiIllustrator Maestro brings composition to the feature list, enabling a world of musical creativity at your fingertips.

Here are some key features of "MidiIllustrator Maestro":

Generate Attractive, Accurate and Flexible Scores from MIDI files
· The same advanced 'MIDI to score' conversion engine is used in all MidiIllustrator applications to create beautiful sheet music instantly.

Hear the Music, See the Music!
· MidiIllustrator brings your scores to life! See the notes light up on the staff as they are played back; the pages turn automatically.

Transform Your Scores
· Automatically with 1-Step Tasks Single command score conversion tools such as 'Convert to Two Hand Piano' and 'Convert to Fake Book'.
· Generate Chord Names and Guitar Frets automatically.
· Format many Scores at once using the Task Wizard.

Custom Transcription Options
· Custom presentation modes allowing you, for example, to present difficult notation in simplified form.

Reformat the Notation
· Easily change the way the music is represented.
· Change keys, time signatures, transpose notes etc. Remove notation selections or complete measure ranges.

Performance and Learning Tools
· Practice particular passages with special practice tools.
· Learn music 'Step by Step' without reading any notation, with the on-screen piano.
· Practice new rhythms with the metronome.

Modify Score Layout
· Customise the dimensions and positions of score objects, such as measures, staves and lyrics.

Connect and Interact
· Connect a MIDI instrument and interact with the music.
· MidiIllustrator knows where you are in the score and turns the pages automatically.

Composing and Editing
· Create brand new scores, or edit existing scores with powerful editing tools.
· Enter notation quickly with the keyboard, and make precision changes with mouse editing functions.

Capture Your Music
· Tools to quickly and easily capture your musical ideas and performances: Note entry via the on-screen piano, record a real-time performance, or enter chords using a connected MIDI instrument.

Context Sensitive Editing
· MidiIllustrator Maestro examines the score as you work, and automatically assigns note and rest entry 'qualities' appropriate to the context.

Editing tools
· Quickly build scores with powerful copy/paste functions and drag/drop operations.

Score Templates
· Create a template with your favourite properties in order to save time in the future when creating new compositions.


Requirements:

· 200 MHz Intel Pentium Processor (or compatible)
· 32MB RAM
· Recommended: A sound card with MIDI capabilities


Limitations:

· 30 runs

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New Score Samples Three new complete score samples are included with each MidiIllustrator installation program.
· New Program Icons and Graphics New images have been incorporated into the different MidiIllustrator products for those customers who have more than one MidiIllustrator product installed at a time. It is now much easier to associate various music file types with a given MidiIllustrator application.
· Trial Printing Printing is now fully enabled in the trial versions of MidiIllustrator Maestro and MidiIllustrator Virtuoso, allowing musicians to print complete scores whilst auditioning each program.
· MIDI Device Volume automatically set Some programs erroneously reduce the master volume of the "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth", which is the default MIDI device used for playback on many Windows systems. If the Windows 'master' volume for this device has been set to zero, then no sound will be heard during playback of any scores which use the device.
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