How to create double (LH & RH) Staves from MIDI File
Hello all.
Noob here. Had a quick look at MS and it looks good.
The main reason I'm trying it is to be able to produce a half-decent score from music created in Sonar, which as anyone who has used it will know, is pretty much useless for notation.
I can save my music as a MIDI file, but that's about it. If I import this into MS, It produces a single staff for the piano and other keyboards. Is there any way to set MS to produce two staves?
Thanks for your time.
Steveo
Comments
...for imported midi files will be a new feature in the 2.0 version of MuseScore, currently under development.
You can download a nightly build:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/comparison-stable-prerelease-and-night…
http://prereleases.musescore.org/windows/nightly/
and test the new MIDI import panel which (among other operations) can assign notes to the left or right hand.
In the referenced links, be sure to heed the caveats about using nightlies.
Regards.
I suggest that you "solve the puzzle" in Sonar, not in MuseScore.
I mean, you can clone your MIDI track in Sonar, so that you have two identical copies of the very same music. Then you open the MIDI editor and remove from the "upper" track all the notes that are intended to be played with one's left hand. Again, you open the MIDI editor again and remove from the "lower" track all the notes that are intended to be played with one's right hand.
At the end of this task, you have two MIDI tracks, the "upper" one containing only the notes for the right hand, and the "lower" one containing only the notes for the left hand. Assign two different MIDI channels to the two tracks and export them as a single file, then import the file in MuseScore and make the proper adjustments to the resulting score.
This should do the trick with minimum effort.