Disklavier

Just thought I'd share a recent discovery.  I've always been looking 
for sequencing software that is useful for piano solo (correcting my 
terrible Disklavier playing, mostly).  I used to use Voyetra SP2 and 
then MasterTracks Pro around 15 years ago (which is still happily 
working on Windows XP, amazingly).  But I've just spent some time 
downloading a load of demos and shareware software looking for 
something different, and have found MIDI Maestro, which stands head 
and shoulders above the rest for this kind of work.

Most of the others concentrate on WAV files, "jamming", and weird 
effects.  And loops, which don't exactly relate to Beethoven as a 
rule.  

Midi Maestro's ace in the pack is the very impressive live notation 
display, showing several tracks at a time (if you've recorded in 
parts), and allowing live editing of the score by dragging notes 
around.  All the usual stuff is there (and so is a piano roll for 
the times when that's better), and it's pretty easy to access.  
Keyboard shortcuts for everything speed up editing no end.

Minus points, it's $50 shareware (but it's pretty nag-free and fully 
function for 15 days), it gets confused by trills, accidentals, and 
anything smaller than a 64th note (although obviously the piano roll 
view is fine for this).

But otherwise I found it good enough to hand over the credit card 
for, which is more than I can say for around twenty other programs 
I've just tried out.

Hope this helps someone....

Regards


Charles