![]() ![]() Notation editors provide seamless translation of standard music notation into MIDI files (and vice versa). ![]() They often present a tape-recorder metaphor on the screen, with music being recorded and played sequentially. They have several recording tracks, and let you display and edit notes, controllers, and so on. Sequencing packages are geared to "conventional" music making. ![]() But MIDI editing remains fundamentally a graphic process, a task at which Macs continue to edge out PCs. As more MIDI software is ported to (or created for) Windows, the balance may change. However, highly acclaimed MIDI sequencers and notation editors are now available for the Mac, and it is the professional's computer of choice. Until a few years ago, the Amiga and the Atari ST, with their built-in MIDI capabilities, boasted some of the best MIDI software. ![]() By Shekhar Govind - editing by Craig O'Donnell - and Nick Rothwell - Software for the Mac: Application Software - For simple purposes, MIDI application software can be considered to have two main elements - a recorder/player (sequencer) with tools for editing the MIDI performance data, and a music-notation editor to create printed scores, or "notation." (Other classes of MIDI software esoterica will be dealt with later.) ![]()
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