Midi Import panel ignored?
Hi, I'm working on a midi import of a complex score, many voices. Using the midi import panel, I set maximum quantization to 16th notes, the maximum used in this piece, except for trills. The import seems to have ignored this. I see some 1/32 and 1/64 notes. Can someone please explain?
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Instead on explaining by some uncertain assumptions, it would be really more useful first of all to attach this midi import score for checking what happens in context. Thanks.
EDIT: and I presume this midi file is related to your other thread? https://musescore.org/en/node/124346
In reply to Instead on explaining by some by cadiz1
Okay, thanks, I'm attaching the midi file in question.
Yes, this is related to my other recent message, but only slightly. I'm more interested in a reply to the other question, which is of more general interest. I rarely import midi files, but I'm often wondering about soundfonts, adjusting volume, playback sound quality, exporting Mp3 and so on.
I understand that the primary intended purpose of MuseScore is to display a score, not to play it. I'm not a composer, I sing in a choir, so my needs revolve around playing more than displaying. Probably not uncommon...
Cheers,
Timborino
I think I answered my own question, though I'm only guessing. I'm guessing that the maximum quantization setting affects inferences about note values. However, if shorter note values are actually present in the midi score, then MuseScore will still reflect them in the notation. For example, in my case, I set maximum quantization at 1/16 notes.Those are the shortest notes actually scored. However, midi makes no provision for drum rolls or trills, so trumpet trills and timpani rolls on the midi track will look like actual 1/32 notes or 1/64 notes. MuseScore interprets them accordingly.
How's my guesser working?
In reply to I think I answered my own by Timborino
Sounds plausible, although I'd word it differently: MuseScore will try to round the start and end of notes off to the nearest 16th where possible, but if you've crammed eight notes into a single beat, there is no getting around notating that as 32nds.
In reply to I think I answered my own by Timborino
Quantization here works in a different manner than usually it does in similar software. In Musescore it's adaptive: its value is automatically chosen to be not larger than the individual note length, so for each note the quantization value is different. But there is an upper limit for the quantization value, and that value can be set by the user as "max. quantization".
For example, if some note is long, say, half note, and the max. quantization is set to 8th, then the note will be quantized with the 8th-note grid, not the half- or quarter-note grid as it supposed to be by the algorithm.
Such quantization scheme allows to quantize all notes in the score (with different lengths!) adequately.
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I copied this also to the MIDI import manual: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/midi-import