Good MIDI arranger?

[NoWaves]

Hi, I've written few songs I was looking to put in a wad of mine, and I can't find an MIDI arranger to put them on. I've at LEAST done the obvious google searches and such and I found one that only does piano sounds and won't even save a .MID file. Any pointing in the right direction would be appreciated.

[Gez]

I've put some potentially useful links here.

[Ribbiks]

Sibelius, Finale, are both great

GuitarPro is an ok choice if you're background happens to be guitar

Any DAW worth it's salt will let you export midi, Logic, etc..

[gggmork]

A quick youtube search for each of those names reveals they ALL use horizontal left/right piano roll editors which seem awkward after using modplug so long. I think I'll try to program my own "tracker" type midi editor some day, where time goes downward as a column or rows, rather than right a row of columns and you don't have to know any music notation (just d-5 or d#5 etc like modplug tracker) and monophonic melodies fit on a single column.

[Dr. Durr]

Anvil Studio

[sirjuddington]

gggmork said:

A quick youtube search for each of those names reveals they ALL use horizontal left/right piano roll editors which seem awkward after using modplug so long. I think I'll try to program my own "tracker" type midi editor some day, where time goes downward as a column or rows, rather than right a row of columns and you don't have to know any music notation (just d-5 or d#5 etc like modplug tracker) and monophonic melodies fit on a single column.

There was a MIDI editing program I tried a while ago called MIDI Tracker, which was pretty much like this, except it kinda sucked :P Still prefer just writing in modplug tracker and converting to MIDI, personally.

[Nomad]

I've been using TuxGuitar and it works pretty fine, but I'm sure there are more robust ones out there.