other musical instruments trial software / shareware for mac

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later, MIDI keyboard.

Enhancements:
release notes appear to be unavailable at developer site nor in download at the time of this posting

PianistEnvy allows anyone with a Mac and QuickTime to instantly unleash 120 crystal-clear instruments built-into Apples QuickTime software

Each instrument can be extensively manipulated to create the right sound through Octave, Pressure and Duration controls. And if you find the "point and click" approach to piano playing tedious, simply use your Macs keyboard as an alternative.

Audio To MIDI VST (MAC) 1.05 is designed as a useful plugin which makes it possible for you to transcribe arbitrary polyphonic audio tracks into MIDI output. Unlike the original audio record, the MIDI output can be easily edited. You can use this plugin for instant Wave-to-MIDI transcription while playing a musical instrument. The resulting MIDI output can be played back as is or used to control MIDI-driven effects.

Major Features:

1. WIDI Audio To MIDI VST plugin is designed for real-time Audio to MIDI conversion. The plugin receives input from an audio channel and performs real-time music recognition.
2. Resulting MIDI events can be sent to the VST host, System MIDI Out Device or saved as a MIDI file with a simple MIDI recorder.
3. The spectrum window displays streaming spectrogram in real-time with recognized notes above it.
4. Also the plugin recognizes chords and displays chord name at the top of the spectrogram window. It is possible to control the delay of chord indication.
5. Adjustable recognition parameters allow to improve recognition quality. This allows you to enhance transcription accuracy on the fly.
6. With WIDI Audio To MIDI VST you can transcribe musical files from variety of audio formats (WAVE, MP3, AIFF and others) to MIDI commands.
   

Requirements:

• To use this plugin, you need VST-compatible software.
  
• Mac OS X 10.4 and higher
  

Kidmusic is a simple but fun musical keyboard for children. It has different instruments and can be played with keyboard or mouse.
This little game lets your children play with music. They can either click the on-screen keyboard with the mouse or also use the normal keyboard keys to play the notes. Choose one of four instruments for different sounds and open mp3-files to play along. Nice, simple and fun, even for adults.
NOTE: This game is one of the Mac-Yun-Soft XTRA GAMES series. When registering a regular Mac-Yun-Soft game, youll get one XTRA GAMES game of your choice for free. When running this game, you can either enter the registration-code you got for this game OR run the game unregistered, which will make it quit after 5 minutes. Remember: The registration of this XTRA GAMES game is free with any registration of a regular Mac-Yun-Soft game.
Main features:
- Easy to use, keyboard or mouse control
- four different instruments
- play along to mp3-tracks
- educational game for kids.

PhotoScore MIDI 3.0 is regarded as a professional and smart music scanning software - the musical equivalent of a text OCR program. It is easy to use, transposes, and plays back scanned music with astonishing realism. MIDI files can be saved for use in virtually any music editing software.

Requirements: Mac OS 9.x/OS X

NoteAbility Pro is a professional music notation package for the Macintosh OS-X operating system.
Developed by Dr. Keith Hamel at the University of British Columbia, it is easily the most sophisticated music notation software available on any platform. NoteAbility combines both musical intelligence and graphical flexibility in a direct and intuitive graphical user interface.
Notate anything from simple melodies to complex avant garde orchestral music, play the score on your MIDI synthesizer or using Quicktime Musical Instruments and print a publishable copy of your score on any OS-X compatible printer.
If you have been frustrated by the awkwardness and inflexibility of other notation programs, or by the time it takes to learn them, then you definitely should have a look at NoteAbility Pro.
Features:
- Complete set of standard and extended music images (including graphical versions of most images that can be placed anywhere on the page).
- A wide variety of entry methods including mouse, on-screen keyboard, MIDI step time, MIDI real time and QuickScrawl (gesture recognition).
- No limits on score size, image size, number of staves, rhythmic complexity, chord complexity, beaming, tuplet groupings, etc.
- On-screen inspector for modifying the attributes of images and altering the layout of your score.
- Selection options include shift-selection and selection across multiple pages for efficient editing of your score.
- Drag and drop TIFF or PDF graphics from a library of custom images.
- Extensive import and export options.
- Automatic part extraction.
- Playback through MIDI and/or QuickTime.
- Complete on-line help (HTML and PDF).
- Unlimited number of pages per document
- Unlimited page size (width and height)
- User-specified margins
- Up to 40 systems per page
- Up to 40 staves per system
- Up to 16 measures per system (expandable after setup)
- Standard clefs (treble, alto, tenor, bass, soprano, treble-tenor, octave-bass, percussion)
- Variable number of lines in staff (1 - 6)
- Staff type (number of lines) may change at any location
- Staff segments may be hidden at any location
- Standard key signatures
- All time signatures from 1/1 to 32/32 plus complex time signatures (eg. 1/4 + 3/8)
- Standard and custom braces on each system (including nested braces)
- Standard & custom barlines on each system
- Staff labels (right or left justified in any font & font size)
- Automatic addition of pages as needed
- Document display from 25% to 1000%
- Adjustable page size
Version restrictions:
- Registration screen at startup.
Enhancements:
- Feathered Beams are now possible in NAPro. Feathered beams are beams which imply a rhythmic accelerando or ritardando within a beamed group. The interface for feathered beams is a new tab view in the Beam, Ties, Tremolo pane of the Music Images Panel and is named "Beam X". This interface allows you to add a feathered beam to an existing beam group. To create feathered beams, select the note at the beginning of the beam segment you want to alter, then choose the feather type and direction from the 6 radio buttons, then click on the Create Feathered Beams button. If you want to create more complex beaming groups, you may need to specify the beam segments using the Beams pane in the same pane. The example below shows 2 different beam structures and the possible results of adding feathered beams
- It is now possible to add Begin Repeat barlines at the beginning of systems using the menu item "Add / Remove Begin Repeat" which is located in the Modify/Barlines menu and in the miniature menu located at the top-right corner of the Barline/Braces pane of the Music Images panel. The Begin Repeat barlines replicate the barline structure of the system and are located before the first beat of the measure. Normally, this feature is only needed when you want to add a repeat sign at the beginning of a system -- for other situations you can set the barline type of the previous measure to be a Begin Repeat barline type. The example below shows the beginning of a score without and with the Repeat Begin Barlines.
- The Custom Setup panel now allows you to indicate staff labels for the first page of the score and abbreviated staff labels for all subsequent systems. There is also a setting to inset the left margin on the first page (to accommodate the longer staff labels), a check box to indicate whether or not you want to use abbreviated labels, and buttons which enable you to copy between the two lists of staff labels. =
- Templates for scores are now available using a pull-down menu on the Document Setup panel. A large number of templates (in different categories) have been created and are stored in the /Library/Application Support/NoteAbilityTemplates folder. You can save your own templates into this location (using the Save Template button) and organize your own templates into folders.