Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Friends:
Given a couple of ~.MID files of hymns, and a several scores of others.
I was asked to create files the _tunes_ (not lyrics), compatible with
2k. All were about the same length 10 to 20 measures in length. The
ones I had scores of, I entered, starting with a document without
libraries, adding staves and the notes, and five text blocks each. The
ones where I was supplied ~.MID files, I imported into Finale.
What was surprising was the difference in file size: the ones I started
with a empty document were 20 - 25 K in size, about 1/5th the size of
the ones I imported! Getting rid of all of th expressions and
articulations from the libraries, and extraneous text blocks only
reduced the size of the imported files by a few K.
Amazed me.
It doesn't surprise me -- the ones with the midi data imported contained
much more data than the ones you entered from scratch. All the midi
data from an imported file is stored in the Finale file -- that's why
there are options in the playback options to have Finale ignore recorded
data.
Any midi data which Finale generates for playback is generated each time
and then discarded, so it isn't stored with the file.
Now, I'm sure that the midi files for the hymns were nowhere near the
difference in file size, but I suspect that Finale has to create new
data structures to accomodate the midi data and to link it to specific
measures and entries onscreen, which would entail adding data for the links.
But isn't it curious that we're discussing files of this relatively
small size when it wasn't too many versions ago that Finale files were
HUGE even if there were only a couple of entries and no imported midi
data. Shows how far the program has come, I think.
--
David H. Bailey
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