free MIDI to notation for Mac?

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free MIDI to notation for Mac?

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I've gotten comfortable writing chord charts and would love to be able write melodic ideas on a staff for them. Technically, I know the the notes of the staff and rhythm values, but have very little practice so it takes me a long time to work it out on staff paper, and then I have no way to verify if I did it right. So I'm basically looking for some software I can play my melody into and get feedback of what it should look like so I can get more comfortable writing it out. The ultimate goal is to be able to sketch out song skeletons when I don't have access to a recording device.

Any ideas what might be a good, ideally free software for a Mac user?
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I think musescore can do midi input? https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note- ... i-keyboard I use it for all my transcriptions and arrangements for the brass band, but only with the on-screen keyboard or discrete note entry. Can't tell if the midi input mode is worth much. But since its free, you can just try it.
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Yeah musescore allows midi keyboard input, with a couple of modes, one by one input or live recording.
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This looks perfect! Thanks guys, I’ll download it now :D
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