If you have special musical interests and would like to share tips with other Notation Musician and Composer users, please share them in this section of the Community Forum.

We borrow users' tips in the forum to share in this Special Music Interests section of the web site. Also, if you have an idea for a new topic, please contact us.

 
Audio Topics
 

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.

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

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.

 
Instrument Topics
 

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.

 
Composing and Writing Music
 

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

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.

 
Learning Music
 

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.

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.

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

 
Technical Topics
 

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

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.

Getting Chord Names from MIDI files
Find out how you can use Notation Musician to 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.