Music

Revision as of 22:59, 4 November 2012

Electronic data formats designed to store musical notes or chords in some notation, or to control musical instruments.

• ELECTONE - For Yamaha Electone Range Electronic Organs
• Guitar tabulatures
• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
• BOO - Part of the ELECTONE format.
• EVT - Part of the ELECTONE format.
• A bunch of 'demo' formats such as MOD - see the Open Cubic Player homepage for a longer list http://www.cubic.org/player/features.html (some of these are audio formats rather than music formats)
• MDZ - strictly not itself a music format, but a metadata file for other music files used by Open Cubic Player. See http://www.cubic.org/player/doc/node72.htm
• ALL - A STEINBERG CUBASE VST file for saving songs (pre 2002).
• ARR - A STEINBERG CUBASE VST file for saving arrangements (pre 2002).
• CPR - A STEINBERG CUBASE SX file for saving projects (2002 - ).
• NPR - A STEINBERG NUENDO file for saving arrangements (2002 - ).
• REX - ReCycle Loop File
• RFL - Reason ReFill Sound Bank
• RNS - Reason Song File
• RSN - Reason Project File
• RX2 - REX2 Audio File
• SX2 - Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File

See also Piano Rolls (which is under the Physical File Formats), and Audio for file formats capturing sound recordings.