MIDI Maestro is music software designed for use by amateur and professional music directors, conductors, and musicians in live musical theater and similar musical accompaniment situations (such as worship bands, techno bands, karaoke, and solo-guitar backup). Dynamic, intuitive performance control is combined with powerful sequencing and editing capabilities.
Key features:
Cue to cue performance with support for vamps, caesuras, fermatas, skips and cola voce sections
Quick response for real-time action
Adjust tempos on the fly
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
Tempo and clip maps provide what you need to see during a performance
Other views include lead-sheet, event list, piano-roll, staff, 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
Record and playback multiple waveform audio tracks
Record 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 "soft-synths"
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
Synthesizer database contains synthesizer properties, patch names, and percussion note schemas
MTC and MIDI Clock synchronization
Continuous improvement and revision--with frequent free update releases
A reasonable price with a 15-day free trial