X-AriaMaestosa

X-AriaMaestosa is a lightweight application that you could use in order to edit and play MIDI tracks. It comes with lots of nice features and options that will surely come in handy. It sports a really intuitive graphical interface with a familiar-looking layout.

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't come with a complicated setup that you would need to complete before you can actually use its features. It sports a really nice graphical interface with all tools at hand.

The application comes in multiple languages, you simply need to pick the one that works for you. Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi sequencer/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

The first thing that you need to do after launching the application is to create a new sequence, open a saved file or import a MIDI file from your computer. If you've decided to create a new sequence, you will need to type in a song name, provide copyright information and set the default key signature.

You can also set the tempo, time signature and the song duration. You have the option to set filters for notes, select only the ones that have the same pitch, similar volume, are on the same string, fret or have a similar duration.

Aria uses a "magnetic grid" to ensure that notes have a precise location and duration, corresponding to those of music theory. If you end with notes that seem to have unusual lengths/locations, select the notes, select an appropriate grid size and select this option.

Midi considers tracks and channels as two separate entities. In the midi specs, tracks are a group of notes, whereas channels are where the tracks actually play their notes.

The settings menu allows you to choose whether you want to manually be able to specify channels or whether you prefer that Aria hides this concept. X-AriaMaestosa is a very nice application that comes with a piano, guitar and score editor, together with other nice features.