Are there shareware/freeware MIDI players and sequencers?
Several are available. MidiGraphy ($20 shareware), is the best know and fairly full-featured, once you figure out the interface. For MidiGraphy and other freeware or shareware sequencing software available for the Macintosh check out the Macintosh Midi User’s Internet Guide (if you know of any more, please let me know). You will also find demos of commercial products at this link, and on archive sites such as info-mac. These demos, are usually ‘crippled’ in that they cannot save, your work, and sometimes have a limited time for use. Otherwise, they are generally the full commercial product, so it’s a good chance to ‘try before you buy’. If you simply looking for a program to play standard MIDI files, you’re in luck. A number of good freeware and shareware MIDI players exist. One well-recommended one is Arnold’s Midi Player, a $10 shareware program which works with both MIDI instruments and QuickTime. Click on the name for information about this program, or to download the latest versio
