MIDI interpretation errors

• Mar 29, 2024 - 02:25

When opened, the attached MIDI file looks good until measure 24 or 25, where the time signature changes to 6/4. After that it is a hot mess. You should be seeing lots of eighth notes, dotted eighth-sixteenth and quarter notes. Instead there are a few notes, lots of rests and multiple voices. When the time signature changes back to cut time the rendering again looks good.

This file looks good when viewed in a MIDI sequencer (Sonar), so it appears MuseScore is being very confused by the 6/4 time. Is there something that can be done to get MS to interpret it correctly?

Attachment	Size
LaChremasca.mid	10.06 KB

Comments

bobjp

• Mar 29, 2024 - 03:38

Where did this come from? Do you have to have a Midi?
FWIW Sibelius can open it correctly.

tpgettys

• Mar 29, 2024 - 05:15

That is what I have, so yes. Thanks for verifying it with Sibelius. Since that is what I saw with Sonar also, it confirms that it can be correctly interpreted. I would seem there is a significant bug in the MS MIDI processing.

tpgettys

• Mar 29, 2024 - 18:20

I tried exporting this file as XML and when opened in MS the 6/4 section looks good. However, the pages are formatted with no right border and other dimensions look rather off. Is there some way to reformat the file to look more typical?

Attachment	Size
LaChremasca.xml	391.14 KB

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 29, 2024 - 18:25

Well, with these settings:

 <defaults>
  <scaling>
   <millimeters>55</millimeters>
   <tenths>400</tenths>
  </scaling>
  <page-layout>
   <page-height>2032</page-height>
   <page-width>1466</page-width>
  </page-layout>
 </defaults>

this seems to be expected?

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 29, 2024 - 18:29

And resetting all style and page settings to defaults works fine

Attachment	Size
LaChremasca.mscz	27.96 KB

tpgettys

• Mar 30, 2024 - 06:17

Yes, that does seem to work quite fine; Thank you!