Patent ID: 8273976

Claim:
A process comprising the steps of activating a MIDI file comprising a series of music tracks, each music track representing an instrumental score for a specified musical instrument, selecting some of the music tracks in the series of music tracks to establish a synthesized-performance package, selecting others of the music tracks in the series of music tracks to establish a sheet-music printing package, converting each of the music tracks in the sheet-music printing package to a musical score, printing the musical scores associated with each of the music tracks in the sheet-music printing package to provide printed musical scores for use by human musicians playing instruments in a live musical performance, converting the music tracks in the synthesized-performance package into a computer performance file comprising sounds of various instruments performing music associated with the music tracks in the synthesized-performance package, and activating the computer performance file to create sounds of the various instruments performing music associated with the music tracks in the synthesized-performance package during the live musical performance while human musicians are using the printed musical scores to create sounds associated with the music tracks in the sheet-music printing package.