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MIDI Maestro is music software designed for use by amateur and professional music directors, conductors, and soloists in live musical theater and similar musical accompaniment situations. Dynamic, intuitive performance control and powerful sequencing and editing capabilities combine to make MIDI Maestro the only music software you will need for your production.
DETAILS Key Features
Cue to cue performance with support for vamps, caesuras, fermatas, skips and cola voce sections (where the conductor follows a soloist)
Work with sets or individual songs; arrange your cues and markers in a tree layout
High-performance timing and quick response for real-time action
Adjust tempos on the fly in multiple ways
Skip or repeat measures as needed during performance
Immediately jump to any song or marker in a set
Large format beat readout, with color emphasis on beat 1
Click track for live percussionists
Support for external control of software features via MIDI keyboard, pedals, etc.
Tempo and clip maps provide what you need to see during a performance
Other views include lead-sheet, event list, piano-roll, staff, velocity, controllers (pitch wheel, effects, etc), faders, time, and karaoke (bouncing-ball or power-point style)
Apply your own numbering (and lettering) to measures
Full set of MIDI editing tools including quantization and transposition
Select, insert, delete, copy, cut, paste sections of "time" for simple splicing
Record and playback multiple waveform audio tracks; ASIO drivers supported
The WaveMaker converts MIDI directly to WAV or WMA format (Windows Media) format for producing CDs or website audio
Split/Mix/Resample/Filter audio tracks. Full support for DirectShow (Sonic Foundry and CFX, for example) filters.
Support for VSTi synthesizers such as GPO, EastWest, Receptor, SampleTank, etc.
Easy to use drag and drop "object" style interface
Easily change common track properties: patch, volume, balance, key, velocity offset, and timing offsets
Uses standard MIDI file formats for easy data exchange with other software (format 0 or 1); Import RSD (Roland Sound) files
Continuous improvement and revision--with frequent free update releases
A reasonable price with a 15-day free trial
PERFORMANCE
An Interface Designed for Performance
These are the views and the layout used most often during a live performance.
It's always easy to see what's coming up: songs, cues, tempos, instrument changes
The current position indicator remains in the center of the display.
Tracks may be color-coded.
Most views may be zoomed both horizontally and vertically.
You may choose to open and work with individual files, or "sets" of songs as used for a performance.
Metronome Display
The current beat number is always prominently displayed. The current measure number is also emphasized.
A "bouncing ball" metronome may be used to assist you with conducting in slow or tempo-dynamic passages.
A "tempo ratio" control allows you to make real-time adjustments to the tempo during performance; use your keyboard's pitch wheel to control it.
Quick-transpose buttons
All commands critical during a performance may be mapped to your MIDI keyboard and/or PC keyboard
Cues
Cues are color-coded for quick recognition.
This example shows a Vamp (repeat until cued), a "Cola Voce" section (the conductor follows the singer beat-by-beat), and a Caesura (stop until cued).
The fermata cue pauses all sounding notes until cued.
The skip cue allows you to skip music without permanently deleting it.
Jump to cues anywhere in the song without missing a beat.
Cues provide for non-linear sequencing, which makes for a more dynamic and musical performance.
Karaoke
MIDI Maestro may also be used as a virtual "Karaoke machine" complete with bouncing ball or highlighted text.
Support for external-monitor, full-screen mode with background graphics and pagination for professional "PowerPoint-like" presentations, perfect for worship services or educational use.
The Lead-Sheet view combines staff notation with karaoke to emulate a "fake book"
EDITING
Recording and Arrangement
MIDI Maestro is also a powerful MIDI creation and editing tool.
Uses a standard click, drag & drop interface
The staff view organizes music into standard notation.
Printing to all standard staff sizes is supported.
There're also piano roll, event list, velocity, time and controller views.
Harp pedal emulation to easily create perfect glissandos
Extensive, expandable synthesizer patch name library to organize your patches
Extensive guitar chord tab library
Digital Audio
The WaveMaker is used to convert MIDI to Audio (WAVE or WMA); a great tool for making rehearsal CDs.
Waveform audio clips may be combined with your MIDI tracks; great for sound effects and to add color to your performance.
Import MP3, AIFF, WMA, WAV and other audio formats.
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