What's new in Version 4.0
The latest version 4.0 of Midi Notate introduces more new features than any other previous version of MidiNotate has introduced. And even though customers have been consistently telling us that MidiNotate is quite intuitive to use, we have made MidiNotate 4.0 even more naturally easy to use!

Practice Loops
Use MidiNotate to practice singing or playing your instrument for a section of a song. Set up a section of the song to repeat a specified number of times, with an optionally increasing tempo, and with pauses between each repeat.

Play Along With Your MIDI Keyboard or Controller
While MidiNotate is playing a song, practice or jam along with your MIDI keyboard, MIDI guitar, or other MIDI controller. You can specify the instrument sound for your performance.

Option to Compress or Stretch Spacing
A new Font Size and Spacing option lets you compress or stretch the layout of objects in the score. By compressing the spacing you can fit more measures on a page, without causing any overlaps of notes.

Create Fake Book Lead Sheet from MIDI File
Quickly prepare a fake book lead sheet from a MIDI file with one command that automatically analyzes the MIDI file to find the lyrics and melody, and determine the chords. The result is a single part with melody, lyrics and chord names. If you are a pianist or guitarist who plays from fake book lead sheets, you'll love this option.

Replace Written-Out Repeats in MIDI Files with Repeat Signs
MIDI files cannot include repeat marks, so repeats must be written-out in MIDI files. This is fine for playback, but is potentially inconvenient for printing scores produced from MIDI files. MidiNotate 4.0 now offers a set of options that let you: delete the repeated section of a song; add repeats marks; add endings ("1", "2", etc.); and insert barlines in the middle of a measure if the repeat starts or ends in the middle of a measure. Using these options, you can print the score and parts with fewer pages, because the repeats are no longer written out. Yet, you will still hear MidiNotate play back the repeats and endings as notated!

Add and Edit Lyrics With Ease
If your MIDI file is missing lyrics, or if your MIDI file editing program lacks a good lyric editing feature, MidiNotate 4.0 makes it easier than ever to add and edit lyrics in MIDI files, including multiple line verses.

Add and Edit Rehearsal Marks
Your band or choir members will appreciate that you can now add rehearsal marks to a score and include them in the printed instrument parts. But if you do not have a band or a choir, you'll still find it convenient to add rehearsal marks to the score and use them to specify sections of the song that you practice using the above described Practice Loops feature.

Edit Barline Styles
Change the style of any barline to single, double, dotted, end-of-song, start-repeat, or end-repeat.

Print Selected Range of Measures
Previous versions of MidiNotate let you print selected pages and instrument parts; but now MidiNotate also lets you view and print a selected range of measures of the score.

More than 150 Links to MIDI File Web Sites
Use MidiNotate's built-in Internet Browser to find and automatically download, unzip, and convert to sheet music any number of MIDI and Karaoke files from the Internet. To help you find these files, we have in effect built into MidiNotate an extensive list of web sites providing free, high-quality, non-copyrighted MIDI files. You have immediate, convenient access to 10,000's of MIDI files. We provide a well-written review of each MIDI file site; and we constantly add to the list, and keep current entries up-to-date. MidiNotate makes it as easy as possible to find MIDI files and convert them to sheet music!

Improved Support for MIDI Soundcards and Devices
The MIDI Device Configuration window has been completely redesigned and simplified. This new design makes it particularly easy to configure MidiNotate for external MIDI devices, such as MIDI keyboards and sound modules.

Improved Arrangement of Menus and Palettes
Last, but not least, MidiNotate 4.0 offers an even more intuitive arrangement of menus and palettes that will immediately feel comfortable to you. The menus and palettes unobtrusively help you to learn keyboard shortcuts, which enable you to even more quickly navigate through the score and edit the notation.

Bug Fixes in MidiNotate Versions 4.0.4 through 4.0.9

You will need to upgrade to MidiNotate version 4.0.9 from any version 4.0.3 through 4.0.8 only if at least one of the problems described below affects you.

Bug Fixes in Version 4.0.9
Underneath chord names, large letter G's are displayed instead of noteheads.
The MidiNotate Backup Utility failed to run, reporting that it expected to find Disk1, Disk2 and Disk3 subdirectories.

Bug Fixes in Version 4.0.8
On Windows 98 or Windows 95, MidiNotate would gradually slow down, and so would the overall system, each time you did any of the following:
display chord names that have sharps or flats
switch from Window View to Page View
use the Page Setup command

Bug Fix in Version 4.0.7
Sometimes chord names and lyrics are displayed in a large font at an incorrect position.

Bug Fixes in Version 4.0.6
After runningMidiNotate for a fairly long time, it starts to respond more slowly, or it suddenly starts displaying unusual symbols in the place where noteheads and music symbols are expected in the score.
After running MidiNotate for a fairly long time, it aborts with the following error message:
Program error: c00000094 address: 1007e434
The notes displayed immediately below chord names are displayed incorrectly.

Bug Fix in Version 4.0.5
MidiNotate failed to edit the music notation in a measure if there was a note tried from the previous measure into that measure, and if the previous tied note was, in turn, also tied from a previous note.
Adding and removing ties in a chord sometimes resulted in unexpected changes in the duration or ties of other notes in the chord.

Minor Enhancement in Version 4.0.5
Support Forum option
The Technical Support command in the Help command now includes an additional option that takes you to the web support forum for MidiNotate. This is a bulletin board where questions and answers and tips are shared among MidiNotate customers and the developer of MidiNotate.

Bug Fixes in Version 4.0.4
On some systems, the MIDI input port was not recognized so that input from, for example, a MIDI keyboard was not recognized.
While editing lyrics, the tab key did not continue to advance to the next note or chord if no lyric was entered for the current position.
The command to shift a note from one staff to another did not work if the destination staff was muted.