MIDI

Your MIDI interface is too slow? MIDI.org has released a MIDI Over IEEE-1394 Specification in PDF. IEEE-1394 is also known as FireWire (Apple) and i-Link (Sony). It makes sense to replace the MIDI cable by IEEE-1394 and not by USB since FireWire is already used for media streams. FireWire is about 10000 times faster than a MIDI cable.

Almost every scorewriter supports the MIDI file format: The official alt.music.midi FAQ: general info and frequenty asked questions , MIDI Farm , You should not attempt to use it to exchange data between score printing programs (and archives) if you have additional ways.

Nevertheless, MIDI is the first data format a score printing program has to support. a good book on this topic is Musik-Programmierung .

Beyond MIDI describes four extensions to MIDI but I found no applications of them on the internet

NoTaMIDI in Beyond MIDI chapter 3
Expressive in Beyond MIDI chapter 4
MIDIPlus in Beyond MIDI chapter 5
Augmented MIDI in Beyond MIDI chapter 6

There is an IETF effort to standardize MIDI over RTP , for both interactive and streaming, see: An RTP Payload Format for MIDI by John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek.

FAQ: How do I convert a MIDI file to some sort of text representation , maintained by Rainer Typke.

Programs exporting MIDI:

Capella	Windows
capella Media Producer	Windows
capella-scan	Windows
Harmony Assistant - music composition and notation editing.	Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, Windows
Melody Assistant	Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows
PDFtoMusic Pro music scanner	Windows, Mac OS X
PDFtoMusic music scanner	Windows, Mac OS X
SmartScore Professional Edition - Precision music scanning & world-class scoring.	Windows, Mac OS X
SmartScore Songbook Edition - Limit: 3 staves	Windows, Mac OS X 10.4
SmartScore Piano Edition - Limits: 2 staves / no text or lyrics / no TAB or percussion.	Windows, Mac OS X 10.4
SmartScore Guitar Edition - Limits: 1 staff / No text or lyrics / no TAB or percussion.	Windows, Mac OS X 10.4
SmartScore MIDI Edition - Limits: 4 staves / No text or lyrics / No printing / MIDI output only / no TAB or percussion.	Windows, Mac OS X 10.4
PhotoScore Ultimate	Windows, MacOS X
PhotoScore MIDI Lite	Windows, MacOS X
AudioScore - music to score and music notation	Windows
Score Perfect Education	Windows
Score Perfect Professional	Windows
Score Perfect Standard	Windows
PriMus	Windows
Sibelius G7 Kontakt Edition - The ultimate tool for creative guitarists	Windows, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
WIDI Recognition System (Professional audio to MIDI converter)	Windows, Mac OS X
WIDI Recognition System (Standard audio to MIDI converter)	Windows, Mac OS X
WIDI Audio To MIDI VST Plugin (Windows Version)	Windows
WIDI Audio To MIDI VST Plugin (MAC OS X Version)	Mac OS X
WIDI Audio To MIDI Audio Unit (MAC OS X Version)	Mac OS X
Celemony Melodyne cre8 audio editor	Windows, Mac OS X
Celemony Melodyne studio audio editor	Windows, Mac OS X
visiv SharpEye Music Reader	Windows, RISC OS
Lime Music Notation Software	Windows, Mac OS 7 through 9.x, Mac OS X
Rosegarden - audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor	Linux
MusicKit - music programming library	Objective C, Python, NeXT, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux/UNIX, OpenStep
NoteWorthy Composer	Windows
Muscript - language for typesetting music	Perl
KGuitar	Posix, QT, KDE, TSE, Linux 2.2, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD 4.4 / STABLE, Solaris (gcc)
DixShtix - Java Music Library	Java
Django tablature editor and composer	Windows
Personal Composer - music notation, MIDI, sequencing	Windows
Xenoage MusicXML Player	Java JRE 1.4.2, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Mozart - music notation software	Windows
MuseScore	Linux, C++
pyScore	Python, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Guitar Pro - tablature editor	Windows, Mac OS X
ABC Plus (abcm2ps) - music notation software	Mac OS X, Windows, x86 RPM based Linux, source code
mTooth	Mac OS X
MagicScore Maestro - Music Notation Software for Musicians	Windows
MagicScore Classic - Music Notation Software for Musicians	Windows
MusiCAD score-editor	Windows
Overture 4 - music notation software	Mac OS X, Windows
ScoreWriter - music notation software (slimmed down from Overture)	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Sequel - Music Creation and Performance	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Cubase 4 - Advanced Music Production System	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 - Music Production System	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 - Personal Music Production System	Mac OS X, Windows
Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powered	Mac OS X, Windows
GVOX Encore - music notation software	Windows, Mac OS X
GVOX Music Time Deluxe - music notation software	Windows, Mac OS X
t-rox Studio	Windows
MIDI-Connections SCAN - optical music recognition	Windows
Impro-Visor - music notation software	Java 1.5, NetBeans IDE 5.x, Polya Java Library, jMusic Java Library
middle C software toolkit - optical music recognition	Windows, Java, C/C++, Visual Basic

Programs importing MIDI:

Capella	Windows
capella Media Producer	Windows
Capella playAlong	Windows
Harmony Assistant - music composition and notation editing.	Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, Windows
Melody Assistant	Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows
Score Perfect Education	Windows
Score Perfect Professional	Windows
Score Perfect Standard	Windows
PriMus	Windows
Sibelius G7 Kontakt Edition - The ultimate tool for creative guitarists	Windows, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
Notation Composer - music notation software	Windows
Notation Musician - music notation software	Windows
NCH Switch audio file format converter for Windows & Mac	Windows, Mac OS X
Celemony Melodyne cre8 audio editor	Windows, Mac OS X
Celemony Melodyne studio audio editor	Windows, Mac OS X
Progression - Music Software for Guitar	Windows, Mac OS X
Notion - Music Notation Software	Mac OS X, Windows, Windows, Mac OS X
Beatnik mobileBAE audio engine	Symbian, Nucleus RTOS , Windows Mobile, J2ME
Lime Music Notation Software	Windows, Mac OS 7 through 9.x, Mac OS X
Rosegarden - audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor	Linux
MusicKit - music programming library	Objective C, Python, NeXT, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux/UNIX, OpenStep
NoteWorthy Composer	Windows
NoteWorthy Player	Windows
NoteEdit - free music score editor for Linux	C++, Linux
KGuitar	Posix, QT, KDE, TSE, Linux 2.2, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD 4.4 / STABLE, Solaris (gcc)
DixShtix - Java Music Library	Java
Personal Composer - music notation, MIDI, sequencing	Windows
Mozart - music notation software	Windows
MuseScore	Linux, C++
Guitar Pro - tablature editor	Windows, Mac OS X
KlavarScript - klavar notation software	Windows
musicRAIN - music sheet viewer software	Macromedia Flash 8
mTooth	Mac OS X
MagicScore Maestro - Music Notation Software for Musicians	Windows
MagicScore Classic - Music Notation Software for Musicians	Windows
MusiCAD score-editor	Windows
Apple GarageBand - Sequencer	Mac OS X
QuickScore Elite - Music Composition and Notation Software	Windows
Overture 4 - music notation software	Mac OS X, Windows
ScoreWriter - music notation software (slimmed down from Overture)	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Sequel - Music Creation and Performance	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Cubase 4 - Advanced Music Production System	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 - Music Production System	Mac OS X, Windows
Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 - Personal Music Production System	Mac OS X, Windows
Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powered	Mac OS X, Windows
GVOX Encore - music notation software	Windows, Mac OS X
GVOX Music Time Deluxe - music notation software	Windows, Mac OS X
t-rox Studio	Windows
Toccata Braille Music Transcription Program	Windows

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