No to be rude, but I really don't care about MusicXML. I'm dealing with
MIDI files. The way most professional sequencers (Digital
Performer/Protools/Logic) can shuttle things back and forth. I don't see
studio's MusicXML to get stuff out of Digital Performer into Sibelius or
Finale.
All Finale needs to do correctly read them, and put them in the program.
I don't care about all the other stuff. If if could correctly put the
Midi file I do in Logic or DP4.6 on the screen, it would be great. It's
never worked right. Midi importing is a sorely lacking in Finale.
Why can Logic and Digital Performer correctly display what I inputted on
the screen, and Finale decides its something else?
Midi totally has the concept of a note. You have where in the measure it
is, and how long it is played. Isn't that enough to figure out stuff?
Logic and DP4.6 can..........as well as other programs.
Michael Good wrote:
If MIDI was good enough for music notation, there would have been no
need to invent MusicXML. We invented MusicXML because there was no
adequate way to transfer music notation between applications.
MIDI's inadequacy for music notation is hardly controversial. You can
buy a whole book called "Beyond MIDI" from MIT Press on pretty much this
one topic. I discussed some of the details in section 3 of my XML 2001
presentation, available online at:
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