Which Audio Editor Do I Use? Audacity (Windows, Mac, Linux) This is the godfather of free audio editing software. You can multi track to an extent (have more than just one stereo track e.g. A full band recording). Each editor supports midi (*.mid) and karaoke (*.kar) files with a SMF0 and SMF1 format. Series of MidiWorks is a powerful tools dedicated to the particular musical instrument. The software has a maps of voice of instruments, data for layers of sounds and as defined System Exclusive messages.
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- As said, Audacity supports midi, including the import, edit, and export of midi files. As for midi, it is a perfect notes-based file format used in playing keyboard instruments, where commands of music's speed, volume, and notes are stored. Only few people completely get the most out of using Audacity Midi keyboard as it takes much intelligence and tricks to control.
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- Sweet MIDI Player is a program for not only auditioning all types of MIDI files, but for modifying the MIDI files themselves. Use its mixer-like interface to easily edit the control messages, transpose the music, change the tempo, mute desired MIDI channels, and save the end results to disk.
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I'm looking for a Mac OS X program for editing midi files.
Specifically, I'm using the program Synthesia to learn how to play songs on the piano, but a lot of the midi files I have don't have the notes split into a right hand and left hand track. I'm looking for a program where I can load one of these midi files, add a new track, and then manually move notes from the existing track onto the new track.
Are there any good programs I can do this with?
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I'll admit I'm biased because I've been working with it for years now, but Apple's Logic has one of the best MIDI editing interfaces going. If the Pro version is a little too much for you to stomach there's an 'Express' version that's pared down when it comes to plugins and samples, but has the same excellent MIDI editor.
On the cheap-but-effective side you've got Reaper which will run on OS X and includes MIDI editing facilities. You can try it out for free and it's $40 (at the time of writing) to buy it if you like it. Hard to beat that deal.
And then in between these two running the gamut of price and features you've got a whole slew of other options: Cubase, Sonar, Abelton, etc. Each of them offering slightly (or not so slightly) different interfaces and feature sets.
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Coming from someone who has been involved with MIDI from the day it all started back around the mid 80's the two oldest programs that still have the best feature set and simplistic approach to MIDI and MIDI editing are Cubase and Cakewalk (which is now called Sonar). Cubase was developed by Steinberg in Germany, and Cakewalk was developed by 12 Tone Systems in the US.
These programs were all developed using actual musicians for musicians to produce songs using MIDI equipment. Over the years many other companies have entered the market and developed some tools that allow a non musician to have a hand in creating music that the computer could generate using processes that automatically create a musical phrase. These phrases can then be compiled into a song that a person can utilise as a complete composition. Most of these products create a song that is highly recognised as Elevator or Weather Channel music. It is very repetitive and always uses sounds that are very sterile and lifeless.
This method has allowed the developers to get a larger market share in the way of sales but has not contributed much to the musician because the tools needed to create a song are mostly in the hands of a skilled musician and not a novice hobbyist.
There have been a few new developers that have entered the marketplace but on a more serious level such as Pro-Tools and Nuendo but at a much higher cost due to them using proprietary hardware. This software has married MIDI & AUDIO in one common objective and that is to utilise all the methods of creating & recording sound into one solution.
Most of the computer related music has been generated using an IBM PC when MIDI was first released and Apple started a bit later but with only one program which started on the PC platform but later moved to Apple which is called Logic. Around 1993 Pro-Tools was a company that was originally designed to record audio on an Apple platform added MIDI to it's software for expanded capabilities of the new samplers that were also entering the production marketplace. MIDI was staring to find it's way into big film production by artists such as Hans Zimmer whereby the entire film was synchronised using MIDI to trigger all the sound effects and music simultaneously.
A more recent player has come on to the Apple side called Garage Band which has also employed MIDI to access the various Virtual Instruments that come standard with Garage Band.
As you can see there are a lot of programs that utilise MIDI to create music but each person must sort through where their priorities are and buy accordingly. It is also important to stay with your purchase so you can become proficient with your software. If you keep trying different software expecting it to be easier to use then you will never learn to be proficient with any of the packages out there.
Lastly, it matters not what platform you are on as the end results are all the same be it a PC or an Apple computer.
Have Fun!
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Note (hah) that Garageband comes with a pianoroll midi editor, for free, already installed. You could duplicate your track and delete the unwanted hand from each.
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I had this same problem, and I've just discovered that you can actually do it in Synthesia. Just do this....
- Select the song
- Click on 'Hands Colours and Instruments' button
- Click where it currently says Left Hand, Right Hand or Background and choose the 'custom' option
- Click on 'Split from here' at the top
- Click where you want to split left/right and then click on continue. It will split all of the future notes left/right from where you click. So you can then progress through the song and click higher or lower on the keyboard as needed.
- To fine tune any notes that you want to change click on each notes with the left or right mouse button to assign it to the left or right hand
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