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  • My focus is on Guitar Tablature view and MIDI processing. Aria Maestosa provides the best ease of use among all guitar tablature editing software. The application is compact and most short cuts are similar to those I use on Pro Tools and assume other DAWs. I tested extensively the handling of MIDI files produced by Pro Tools. It did the best job among all major apps in mapping midi to the most common sense tabs on a guitar. While it had an issue initially printing the Tabs, Mathieu Marcotte-Gagnon jumped on it and provided me with updated download build that fixed the issue. The only feature I would wish for is vertical zoom (or at least few discrete font sizes) for the tabs (only horizontal zoom is supported) as the fret numbers are small for my elderly eyes.
  • Thank you very much for the program released under a free open source license!
  • Very nice layout and everything seems to work correctly. Unfortunately it cannot save as MIDI or export to MIDI. You can import a MIDI file, but after all the editing, you will never get a MIDI file back. I asked the developer about it, and he said that it was simply not intended to export to MIDI. Curiously, however, there is a Mac version of this same program, and the Mac version allows you to export to MIDI. So, why would he design the one to export to MIDI, but not the other? I have used this program for hundreds of hours on the Mac platform, but I find the Windows version relatively worthless, only because it cannot export to MIDI.
  • Very user friendly and powerful.
  • Great compact tool for fast editing of midi files. Typically I edit files that creates a friend of mine. I fix small bugs and render a midi in other app. So the program is very useful as a part of our workflow.
  • An absolutely awesome tool for anyone who composes music! The only thing missing in the Windows version is export to .wav, but that's not a major issue.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Nice interface, but can only handle one MIDI track. Most music is in multiple tracks.
  • Beautiful! Thank you!
  • Aria Maestosa is a surprisingly intuitive, easy-to-use and potent music composition software that surpasses its price tag (but quality "free" software has been going up in number lately, which is a good thing!) The biggest draw for me is the layout: tracks are stacked atop each other. This way, one can clearly see and compare tracks (and if there's a lot of 'em, one has only to scroll!) Changing the size, or order, of tracks is as easy as holding down the mouse button and dragging! There's also a universal Zoom, but it's rather awkward, as it only makes notes appear more elongated/shorter, as opposed to bigger/smaller. Aria also features some neat time-savers, which I think are absent even from some higher-end music software: Shift+up/down arrows move highlighted note(s) by an octave; Shift+right/left arrows move note(s) by a bar; Ctrl+right/left arrows change note duration, etc. Other features are a few clicks away, and most can be applied to individual notes or a group. Additionally, there're welcome bells and whistles: notes appear darker/lighter in color as you change their volume, etc. The program Sourceforge.net page keeps an exhaustive and well-explained list of bugs and missing features, and the conclusion is clear: for *scoring* and/or printing sheet music, you're better off with a dedicated "scorewriter". I mainly use the Piano Roll, and about the only feature I'm missing is *any* Redo + plenty more Undo. When you keep changing the position of a note (or a bunch of 'em!), passing thru every pitch/postion in between (say you're doing it with the keyboard), or changing any other note attributes, and you want to go back, the usefulness of redo/undo may not be overestimated! The current workaround is to make regular saves, then when things go messy, close the project and reopen it! Or open the project file + a *copy* simultaneously (yes, A.M. allows multilple tags), then when one of them has been heavily edited, a user can quickly listen to the difference in the other. While the plethora of native instruments are for the most part of unexpectedly decent quality, they can sometimes sound weird and 'artificial'--no surprise there: e.g. a note just a half-step apart may suddenly sound a very different pitch, even timbre (decreasing the volume of the offending note usually softens the effect). So, it'd be nice if Aria could host third-party VSTs (virtual instruments). Also, the efficacy of controls (pan, reverb...) could be improved. In an email exchange in which the developer of Aria helpfully answered some questions I had, she mentioned not having enough time to update the software. What a pity, because as good as Aria stands, I do think it has more potential. Thankfully, the code is out there. I'm just an aspiring musician, not a coder, but I urge musicians who double as coders (or vice-versa) to support this intuitive, hassle-FREE music composition software.
  • Excelente programa, muy estable, y facil. he probado varios y este me convenciò. seria bueno hubiera otros synths para escojer y aunque fuera un solo canal MIDI OUT, tambien que el volumen de las pistas se pueda ajustar mientras reproduce. soy solo entusiasta, y lo utilizo en la Iglesia para sonar mas completo pues toco solo guitarra. Escriban en español !! Felicidades ARIA !!
  • Very easy to use, but crashes a lot on Windows 7. EDIT: No longer crashes after updating, thanks!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Good and useful software
  • Great work, very well!
  • Everything works perfect! I've waitef for such a usefull aplication!
  • This is the best music composition software I've ever come across! I've never found a MIDI synthesizer where the instruments sounded right, until now! I love it!
  • Great piece of software. Pretty, multi-platform, and straightforward Very useful as MIDI viewer. But Aria permits also an easy and quick MIDI edition.
  • fantastic software!
  • Good project, thanks for showing
  • Cool project, thanks for showing!
  • used it for game development, if you have the melody in head, this program is the fastest way to get it synthesized!
  • I'm using this right now for midi editing and its quite good for me. you should try this.