Separation of tracks (staves) for a piano piece
Hello everyone,
I've transcribed a short piano piece using MS, with the intention of transferring it on my Yamaha keyboard as a MIDI and playing the tracks (left hand and right hand) separately, in Learning Mode. Since I created the file as two separate staves (using the Piano template), I expected the contents of the G clef stave to be seen by the keyboard as the "right hand" track, and the F clef stave to be seen as the "left hand track". Instead, the notes on both staves are merged into a single track, and so I can't play LH and RH separately.
Of course, the software can't know which note will be played by which hand, but it can safely assume that whatever the user puts on the G clef stave should go to the right hand, and what he puts on the F clef should go to the left hand.
I then transcribed the same piece using a different notation software (Guitar Pro 6), again being careful to put each note where it belonged (either to the LH or to the RH); the MIDI produced had the two staves (tracks) nicely separated when played back on the keyboard - which is what I also expected of the MIDI produced with MS.
Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance!
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By default, MuseScore will create a track per instrument when you save as MIDI.
In the case of the piano, if you want one track per hand, you will need to create two instruments. When you create a score from scratch, add two pianos and delete the F clef for the first one and the G Clef for the second one. See attached template.
In reply to By default, MuseScore will by [DELETED] 5
Thanks very much for your help! I don't really know how I managed to delete the two extra staves (clefs), because there wasn't really a Delete command for staves, only for measures, but I think I made it, because now my tracks are separable on the keyboard!
Strangely, if I open the MIDI that I created with Guitar Pro 6 in MS, it again merges everything onto one stave (although the staves were created separately), and here I don't have the option of adding several instruments (it's just Open + selecting the MIDI file).
In reply to Thanks very much for your by longtalker
there are 2 MIDI formats (0,1) I think. One of them sends the tracks as separate staves, the other merges them. It seems to me that that is what you are describing. It would be in the program that is sending the MIDI file. Anyone else?
In reply to If I remember properly, by xavierjazz
You're right - once I converted the MIDI to type 0, opening it in MS produced two separate staves. Many thanks!