Free Notation Software and MIDI Player

[donna plasky]

Hi, everyone. A few weeks ago I found a free MIDI file reader/player that can produce notation for on-screen reading and/or printing. I have Windows 7 software on my computer and it seems to work just fine. I am a beginner so I don't have actual MIDI software and I don't understand MIDI files. What I have used this Notation Player software for is: Sometimes Goran's website (or other websites with free material) will have a MIDI file for a song that I like, but no notation or tablature is available. I can use the free Notation Player, and click on File, Import MIDI...and it will produce notation, broken out by instrument. Then I either have to figure out how to play the song from the notation or else find a way to transcribe the notation.

For example, Goran's website has a MIDI file for "My Grandfather's Clock" but, unless I am mistaken, I don't see tablature for it. So I imported the MIDI file into this free player and it has given me notation for the song.

Kind regards,
Donna

http://notation.com/DownloadNotationPlayer.htm

Specific link to the "Free Download Now" command: http://www.notation.com/NotationPlayer263Setup.exe

"Free Notation Player: Our MIDI player runs on any PC with Windows® Vista, XP, or 98. The free Notation Player displays MIDI music (.mid, .kar, or .not ) files as sheet music that you can view on the screen while the notes play, and also print. Player can display and print files that are created with Notation Musician and Notation Composer. It's a great way to share your music from Notation Software products with others! To download the free Notation Player, see option below the Features and Benefits. You should also see our MIDI Files Music Directory for some great music to experience on all Notation products."

[Iain Purdon]

What I want is software that will produce notation from a sound file. You know the thing. You hear something good going on in a record and you're struggling to figure out who's playing what. Is there anything that'll do that?

Iain

[donna plasky]

What I want is software that will produce notation from a sound file. You know the thing. You hear something good going on in a record and you're struggling to figure out who's playing what. Is there anything that'll do that?

Iain

Dear Iain: I "quoted" your question to keep it going, because I don't want to overwrite your question. I would be very interested in the answer.

I just wanted to post a sample of what this Notation Software gave me, based on a midi file I found on the internet. I forget if this one was from Goran or not. The handwritten lyrics are my scribbling. This is a couple of measures of "Lucky Lips." For a professional musician such as yourself, this kind of notation may be worthless, I honestly don't know. But as an amateur, I was happy just to learn what strings and frets to play to get the intro....Dah dah dah dah, oh woe woe woe. How pitiful is that, huh?

LuckyLips_sample.pdf

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Kind regards,
Donna

[Iain Purdon]

Without hearing the MIDI file I wouldn't know how accurate that is but it's certainly proper sheet music. Thanks very much Donna.

I'm not a pro muso by the way. Demi-semi-pro at best

Thanks for posting - Iain

[donna plasky]

Dear Iain: Out of curiosity, I imported a free MIDI file of "Move It" into that Notation Player, and here is the notation it produced. The software is only as good as the MIDI file that was used...and I'm sure this is not a good rendition of Move It, that's why it was free...but here it is for you and/or Luigi. The Hank and Bruce parts of Move It in this file sound half-way decent when played back, but the bass part cannot even compare to Jet, which is what Luigi was talking about.

Kind regards,
Donna

Move It from MIDI file.pdf

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[Iain Purdon]

That bass line is based (sorry) pretty much on what Frank Clarke played on the single. It's a MIDI, so it's the bass part the creator of the file decided to have, and of course it comes to a natural end which the record doesn't. Nevertheless, not bad at all.

Not at all what Jet played at The Event - if indeed he did play it

Thanks - Iain