Midi Maestro MM4 Review

MIDI Maestro MM4 is music software designed for use by amateur and professional music directors, conductors, and musicians in live musical theater and similar musical accompaniment situations (worship bands, techno bands, karaoke, and solo-guitar backup). Dynamic, intuitive performance control is combined with powerful sequencing and editing capabilities. MM4 supports MIDI to WAV conversion, ASIO, VSTi synths, guitar chord insertion, harp pedal emulation, and a lead-sheet staff view.

Key Features
Cue to cue performance with support for vamps, caesuras, fermatas, skips and cola voce sections (where the conductor follows a soloist)
Work with sets or individual songs; arrange your cues and markers in a tree layout
High-performance timing and quick response for real-time action
Adjust tempos on the fly in multiple ways
Skip or repeat measures as needed during performance
Immediately jump to any song or marker in a set
Large format beat readout, with color emphasis on beat 1
Click track for live percussionists
Support for external control of software features via MIDI keyboard, pedals, etc.
Tempo and clip maps provide what you need to see during a performance
Other views include lead-sheet, event list, piano-roll, staff, velocity, controllers (pitch wheel, effects, etc), faders, time, and karaoke (bouncing-ball or power-point style)
Apply your own numbering (and lettering) to measures
Full set of MIDI editing tools including quantization and transposition
Select, insert, delete, copy, cut, paste sections of "time" for simple splicing
Record and playback multiple waveform audio tracks; ASIO drivers supported
The WaveMaker converts MIDI directly to WAV or WMA format (Windows Media) format for producing CDs or website audio
Split/Mix/Resample/Filter audio tracks. Full support for DirectShow (Sonic Foundry and CFX, for example) filters.
Support for VSTi synthesizers such as GPO, EastWest, Receptor, SampleTank, etc.