On 7/29/2015 11:03 AM, Barbara Touburg wrote: > Hello all, > > A composer has sent me a MIDI file he wishes me to notate. > Instead of separate notes, Finale creates chords in some places. > I'm not so familiar with the MIDI format. Would someone like to take a > look at the file and tell me what I'm doing wrong? > Thanks!
There are two possibilities: 1) Finale will place all the notes which are on the same channel into a single staff when it imports MIDI files, to the best of my knowledge. So even though the original file may have had each of those chord-tones on different staves, Finale will put those notes on a single staff as a chord; 2) the quantization settings in Finale are moving those notes forward and backwards to fit its timing grid -- try changing the quantization settings in Finale by telling it that the shortest note in the MIDI file is a 32nd note or even a 64th note. WARNING -- while this may fix your chord problem, it can also result in a lot of extra weird rests and note values. What you could try is importing the file as you have done, then selecting a measure with a chord and then have Finale quantize the underlying midi data with shorter note values to see if that will fix just that measure. Then do the same with the next measure which has a chord. This way your whole file won't have a lot of weird rests and note values. If you want to send me the midi file off-list I'll be happy to see what I can come up with to help you out, although I may not have a chance to play around with it until this evening. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
