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Converting audio, CD and mp3 files to sheet music - Find out how to get sheet music for songs you have on CD, LP, cassette, or as mp3 or other music files.

Children's music - Here is a list of some of the best resources for bringing more music into your home, and finding music instructional material for your children, via the Internet.

Song writing resources - Hints, tips, and other resources for aspiring songwriters.

Chord Charts - Use the special Part Wizard to create free chord charts quickly from MIDI files.

Learn to Read Music Notation with Notation Musician - Find out how Notation Musician can help you quickly and easily learn to read sheet music notation.

Customize Your MIDI Files: Music Minus Your Part - Use any MIDI file (and there are hundreds of thousands of free ones on the internet) and silence your instrument or vocal part, so that you can practice with accompaniment.

Developing Your Musical Improvisational Skills - Use Notation to give you the edge in working on your improvisational chops.

Converting Guitar MIDI Files to Sheet Music - Find out how Notation Musician can help you create great guitar sheet music from MIDI files.

Piano sheet music - Learn how to customize piano music to fit your playing skills and musical taste.

Sheet Music Scanning Applications (Music OCR) - Notation can take the MIDI output of a music scanning application (music OCR software) and turn it into beautiful sheet music that sounds great. Use this technique to quickly enter and transpose or rearrange music for which you have sheet music.

Soundfont Resources - An extensive listing of free soundfont sources, commercial soundfont sources, tutorials, and soundfont utilities.

Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) Library - This is a 35-page tutorial on using the Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) sound library with Notation Composer. This tutorial is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format: NotationGPOTutorial.pdf
Also, visit the following section of the Notation Users Community Forum: Notation Users Community | Using Notation with Third Party Products | Sound Libraries and Software Synthesizers | Garritan Personal Orchestra.

Getting Chord Names from MIDI files - Find out how you can use Notation Musicianto get the chord names from your favorite MIDI file songs to use in automatic accompaniment software such as PG Music's Band in a Box (tm).

Printing Sheet Music from MIDI Files - This page gives an overview of how you can use Notation Musician or Notation Composer for printing sheet music from MIDI files for a variety of styles and instruments.

How to obtain a Cakewalk Instrument Definition File (.ins) for your MIDI device - Instructions for retrieving Cakewalk Instrument Definition Files (.ins) for using in Notation Musician or Notation Composer.