How to Import a 2 channel midi file as solo piano piece - I need two staves but with one instrument
Hi everyone
Right now when I import my midi file, I have split left hand and right hand into separate channels 1 and 2, which I need to keep intact for my score (I don't want to spend time moving notes from top to bottom or vice versa as I would if I had a piano midi with no separate channels).
However, after importing, it is making it two separate piano instruments, one with a treble clef stave and one with a bass clef stave. It looks mostly fine, but this means when I do pedal lines, I have to do the pedal markings on both staves in order to get the musescore player to properly 'ring out' and do the sustain, since if I do it just on the bottom like normal, it only applies to the bottom stave. Since there are actually two pianos here. How can I get this to be just one piano, with channel 1 on the top and channel 2 on the bottom?
You can see in the image I uploaded, what the issue is. I have also included an image of what I see when I press the 'I' key. Please help, this has got to be a common thing to want to do right??
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Comments
Hi, enter a new instrument after your 2 single piano : choose simply PIANO and you get a new "2 staves" piano. After copy your single staves and , after, delete it
In reply to Hi, enter a new instrument… by Raymond Wicquart
thanks. What is the best way to copy one entire stave into another? I tried using 'Select to end of score' and then pasting but it says 'Tuplet cannot cross barlines'
In reply to thanks. What is the best way… by moonlapsepiano
That shouldn't happen if you are copying to the same time position. You must have pasted to a different beat.
If you continue to have trouble, please attach your score and precise steps to reproduce the problem so we can understand and assist better.
In reply to That shouldn't happen if you… by Marc Sabatella
You are correct, I was just pasting to the wrong spot. Thanks for your help Marc!
Looking at your pictures, the easiest way forward is to keep the existing treble clef staff and add a bass clef staff to it:
![piano.png]( "piano.png")
Then copy the existing bass clef notes to the (new) empty bass clef staff by...
1. Select the first measure
2. Shift click the last measure and cut/paste onto the first measure of the empty staff.
Use Edit > Instruments... and remove the now extraneous piano instrument from the score.
In reply to Looking at your pictures,… by Jm6stringer
Thank you, this worked and is easy. I appreciate your assistsance!