MIDIView

MIDIView is a utility to aid in previewing and printing MIDI files in musical notation.

MIDIView is a lightweight and easy-to-use utility for previewing and printing MIDI files
in musical notation. This helps to improve your musical hearing. It's hard to understand
some songs when there's no notation on hand. MIDIView solves this problem, so you can
practice using professional notation, printed or displayed. Thousands of MIDI files can
be downloaded directly from the Web at no charge. The steps are clear: download a MIDI
file, open it in MIDIView and start learning...no matter what instrument you play.
MIDIView represents a MIDI file as a list of separate tracks for each instrument which
greatly simplifies the comprehension of the musical composition.

MIDIView also shows you the running notes during playback. Every sounding note is
synchronized on the screen. Due to this feature, musical practice for novices can be
simplified as much as possible. MIDIView notation is professionally designed and can be
easily used in practice. Now there is no need for expensive song books - simply download
your favorite tunes and print them using MIDIView.

MIDIView synchronizes both the aural and the visual perceptions to create a complete
musical effect. This low-priced software includes a user-friendly and easily adjustable
interface, with a professional look.

MusicWonk

MusicWonk is a MIDI program that produces MIDI music based on algorithmic rules that you interactively create by connecting modules (graphical objects that represent functions and processes) in real time, adjusting the parameters as you go, in an interactive drag and drop environment especially designed to be fast to learn, fast to use. But MusicWonk did not achieve its ease of use by dumbing it down. Quite the contrary. With a starting palette of over 200 built in modules and functions, MusicWonk is one of the most powerful algorithmic composing programs available.

MusicWonk will drive MIDI synthesizers, soft synths and sound cards directly, effectively "playing" them in real time; it will also record directly to a standard MIDI file.

MusicWonk is essentially the same program as ArtWonk, but without the animation graphics components. It is the successor to a long line of graphical, modular, and interactive algorithmic composing programs created by John Dunn that were inspired by the big analog modular synthesizers, going back to one of the first if its kind ever produced for MIDI, MusicBox, released to the public domain in 1986.
While you can easily create analog synthesizer style step sequencers with MusicWonk, it goes far beyond its sequencer roots, to give you algorithmic composing tools of all kinds. MusicWonk is essentially a program language specialized for creating music, intended to be used by musicians. It is not a text based language like Java, C, or Lisp; instead it is a visual direct manipulation language that does not require you to take weeks to months to learn. You simply select graphical modules from a pop up menu, drag and drop their connections and interactions, listening to the results in real time as you build and modify your piece.