I wrote a ton of completed tracks and unreleased albums in high school/college with this Tablature MIDI software that exported to .mid: http://www.tabit.net

It's like Guitar Pro but infinitely better as it runs next to nothing on your system and allows for viewing all tracks at once with ease.

The standard midi file format had a bad version that smashes all data into one track and a bearable version that leaves them separated. You want to export to the latter version.

The ideal format is the native format of your sequencer, but in your case it can't be helped. I don't know enough about Reason to give the exact answer you want, but I'm guessing the export is trying to make an ancient file.

One midi sequencer that is rarely mentioned is The Jazz Midi Sequencer. It uses a piano roll interface, and is pretty powerful for a free tool. While I tend to use Anvil Studio for basic composing if possible (and sometimes break into the Event editor to use the effects that they make you pay extra for), Jazz makes it much easier to use effects like pitch bend, vibrato, LFO effects and what-not. I think it actually has all the standard midi features available to you.

I haven't used any midi trackers, though, so I couldn't really compare them. I still have the old installer zip file for Jazz 4.0.0 and 4.0.3 from before they went open-source compile-it-yourself. Jazz 4.0.0 works great in WINE, if anybody cares. Just have to have Timidity or what-not, of course.

Interface takes some getting used to, but once you do, you'll be flying if you don't mind piano roll.

Haha man, this is somewhat off topic, but MIDI Tracker is how I first started writing music...when I was a teenager I just wanted to make electronic music and I knew the Midi format from downloading video game music, so I just looked for a way to make Midi files, and found that piece of shit. So buggy. And I knew nothing at all so I thought the tracker interface was just how all people made music with computers. When I actively started writing real chip music it made it an easy transition though

openmpt has actually been really awesome so far. it does almost everything i want it to. i'm still figuring out how to program midi cc's and i can't figure out how to send program change info at all.

but yeah, openmpt is awesome.

Hmm looks like chip scene needs new MIDI tracker for MAC,WIN and LINUX with build in LSDJ/NANOLOOP, MDMidi support... hahaha.
Any coder??? I can code only "Hello World!" .

Uh what about renoise?

ztracker and openmpt are the best midi trackers

but they are not that great

OK OK you are right RF1 sux pretty lot... I got toons of error messages too, when I was trying it today.

MIDI XG TRACKER
http://blogs.wefrag.com/divide/midixgtracker/
http://www.findthatfile.com/search-3396 … 21.zip.htm

SEQUENCERS:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ariamae … =directory
http://www.anvilstudio.com/
http://breno.sarmen.to/midi/
very nice -> http://www.experimentalscene.com/softwa … ve-studio/
http://openmidiproject.sourceforge.jp/Sekaiju_en.html
http://filter24.org/seq24/shots.html

TRACKERS
imports IT and can export to MID http://ztracker.sourceforge.net/
import MIDI and export MIDI too http://openmpt.org/

Hmm hmm I need midi tracker too. So when you will find normal MIDI tracker let me know...

Midi is confusing. fok dat shet

I was trolling but anything that sequences should be able to export song data somehow.

Getting a bit off the topic here, but Reason's best used as a ReWire client inside a "proper" DAW imo. It'll take anything you throw at it MIDI-wise, at least.

People pay $200 for Massive, and it's just a softsynth. So, I guess that's something to think about!

No need to get indignant about it. I just personally find it easier than a tracker interface. Horses for courses!

yeah, i was able to do that. but how do you change or enter numbers on the pattern editor? typing numbers doesn't work. i tried "add pattern" or "delete pattern" and it didn't seem to do anything? if i tried to do that with an existing song, it would just add random numbers everywhere.

microchip EXCEL

it really looks like a spreadsheet software xD