I had written before --and have seen much said about--Finales horrible
handling of importing midi files.
The specific subject I wrote about was repeated notes/chords that
Finale generates, while also truncating durations, due to its limit of
only two voices per staff/track allowed, and that only with having
"include voice two" checked.
Through much trial and error, Im now able to get piano midi files into
Finale WITHOUT splitting notes, (a great timesaver) and without any
repeated notes/chords,(so far!) to be removed.
I include the settings which so far have given the best results below,
if anyone might need them, as I couldn't find anything about this
anywhere--
(YMMV, etc etc--but they really seem to be working for me--suggestions,
observations.results kindly appreciated)
Import Midi file Options: (all listed below are either checked , or
ohosen)
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Tracks Become Staves
Include:
Tempo Changes
Continuous Data
Convert Markers
Create Instruments From Initial Patches
Use Generic MIDI Patch Names
Key Signature:
Use The File's
Time Signature
Use The File's
Create Percussion Staves
Channel 10
Percussion Map 1
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Quantization Settings
Smallest Note Value=32nd
128 EDU's
Mix Rhythms
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More Quantization Settings
Remove notes smaller than 20 EDU'S
Convert To Real Notes
Include Voice Two
Sensitivity Level 32nd note 128 EDU'S
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now that's the GOOD news..
The bad news is that while GETTING the midi files into Finale--Finale
ALWAYS requantizes them..no matter HOW perfect they already are, and it
introduces quantization errors..notating notes later than they should
be, or as blatantly wrong tuplets.
This notation of the notes later than they should be leads to notes
being notated (pushed) off the staff in the right margin and then it
reports "too many (too few) beats".
it also results in Fnale notating things in places OTHER than what is
shown in its own midi file.
So whats needed is a way to get the files OWN quantization in, without
FInale messing it up, by requantizing it--
Any Suggestions?
You can't turn Finale's quant off, it seems--and even if you match
FInales import quant with yours it can and does introduce errors, which
results in the above mentioned notes off the staff.
So barring being able to AVOID having FInale quantize it, my thoughts
are to somehow get the quant settings in whlle Finale IMPORTS from
other programs..Score, Encore, Smartscan,Rhapsody, etc..which it
doesn't requantize.
and so far my looking into XML has shown it NOT to be all its cracked
up to be..
Any other ideas?
Thanks so much--any please, and all help is greatly appreciated.
Peace, Bob Mrabito
PS-Of course teh BEST way to do this would be for MakeMusic to FINALLY
fix the midi import problem..
Also when trying this I would suggest NOT requantizing the file, and
using MASS edit, with Retranscibe--Ive lately seen some funny things
with that--better to reopen the file anew.
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