MidiPdfView is a MIDI-controlled PDF sheet music reader for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Connect any MIDI footswitch and perform your whole set without touching your device.
One-time purchase · Windows, MacOS & Linux · No subscription.
Assign any MIDI CC or Note message to next page, previous page, next score, and more. Your hands never leave your instrument.
Open every score for your set as tabs and save them as a named playlist. Drag to reorder, tap to switch — your whole night's music loads exactly where you left it.
Rotate your tablet and two pages appear side by side automatically. Portrait snaps back to single page. No settings to fiddle with.
Mark breath marks, dynamics, and cues with the freehand pen. Add text notes, erase, and save annotations permanently into the PDF.
Automatically fills the screen with just the music — ignoring blank margins. Publishers leave a lot of whitespace around notation; Smart Zoom finds where the notes actually are and expands those to the edges of your display, making every score as readable as possible.
Works with any class-compliant USB MIDI device. MIDI Learn assigns your pedal's controls in seconds — no manual CC numbers needed.
Most PDF viewers fit the whole page to your screen — margins and all. Smart Zoom is different: it detects exactly where the music notation lives on the page and expands that region to fill your display. The result is notation that can be dramatically larger on scores with wide margins.
Cut the cord entirely. MidiPdfView's built-in Bluetooth bridge connects to any BLE MIDI footswitch and keeps the link alive through sleep, song switches, and stage transitions.
Drag your sheet music files onto the window or click Open. Each score gets its own tab in whatever order you set.
Connect any USB or Bluetooth MIDI footswitch. Open Settings, click Learn on any action, press the pedal. Mapped in under ten seconds.
Your eyes stay on the music. Your hands stay on your instrument. Your foot does the rest.
Any class-compliant USB MIDI device works out of the box — no drivers to install. Not sure which pedal to get? We carry the M-VAVE Chocolate Plus — a compact, affordable USB MIDI pedal tested and verified to work perfectly with MidiPdfView.
Everything you need to perform hands-free — software license + pedal, shipped to your door.
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Any USB class-compliant MIDI device that sends CC or Note On/Off messages works — including cheap single-pedal controllers. Use the built-in MIDI Learn to map your pedal in seconds. No manual CC numbers, no drivers to install.
Yes — that's exactly what it was built for. The interface is optimized for touch: tap tabs to switch, drag them to reorder, and the toolbar buttons are sized for fingers. It supports portrait and landscape orientations with an automatic dual-page layout when you rotate.
Yes. Draw freehand markings, add text notes, and erase with your finger or stylus. When you're done, "Save PDF" writes your annotations permanently into the PDF file so they survive a reopen and are visible in any PDF reader.
Most PDF sheet music apps fit the entire page to your screen, which means a lot of the display is wasted on blank margins that publishers add around the notation. Smart Zoom scans the page to find where the actual music content is — where the first note starts to where the last barline ends — and zooms so those bounds fill your screen edge-to-edge. On scores with generous margins this can make the notation noticeably larger without any pinching or manual adjustment. Each PDF remembers its own zoom setting so every score opens exactly the way you left it.
Yes — v1.1 adds full Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) MIDI support on Windows and Linux. Any BLE MIDI footswitch will work, including popular options like the AirTurn BT-106, CME WIDI Bud, or Yamaha MD-BT01. Open Settings, pick your pedal from the Bluetooth Device list, and MidiPdfView pairs and reconnects automatically from that point on.
No. MidiPdfView includes a built-in BLE bridge — no extra apps, no Bluetooth drivers to install. On Windows, it optionally mirrors incoming MIDI to a loopMIDI virtual port so a DAW or notation app can receive the same pedal input simultaneously.
Not yet — MidiPdfView currently runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Mobile versions are actively in development. Drop us your email if you'd like to be notified when they launch.