Music

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Music

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

• AMOS Music Bank
• CUBASE (Steinberg)
  • 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 - ).
• ELECTONE - For Yamaha Electone Range Electronic Organs
  • BOO - Part of the ELECTONE format.
  • EVT - Part of the ELECTONE format.
• Guitar tablatures
• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
• 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
• Propellerhead Reason
  • REX - Propellerhead Reason ReCycle Loop File
  • RFL - Propellerhead Reason ReFill Sound Bank
  • RNS - Propellerhead Reason Reason Song File
  • RSN - Propellerhead Reason Reason Project File
  • RX2 - Propellerhead Reason REX2 Audio File
  • SX2 - Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File
• Reality AdLib Tracker
• XM
• 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)

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