Problem with MIDI export/import of lyrics
I'm trying to export a vocal part (a score with lyrics) from MuseScore 4.5.1 as a MIDI file to import into a vocal synthesizer (Dreamtonics' Synthesizer V Pro ver. 2). SynthV is interpreting the name of the part ("Baritone") as the first word of the lyrics, so the actual words are all displaced by one note. What I can't tell is whether the problem is in the MIDI file that MuseScore produces or in the way SynthV parses the MIDI file. FWIW I exported as MusicXML, and the only place "Baritone" appears is in the part-list section, though how (if at all) this relates to the MIDI file I don't know...
Is there a tool (for MacOS, preferably open-source, or on-line) to translate MIDI into readable text (i.e. commands and their data) that can be used to inspect the MIDI file? Or could someone out there take a look at my MIDI file and see if there's something funny with it?
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| To_You_Tonight_3.1.3-Baritone.mid | 7.02 KB |
Comments
Importing that .mid into MuseScore (any version) shows the lyrics to be missing the hyphens and melima underscores.
But no issue with"Baritone"
Maybe check what midis2jam2 makes out of the lyrics?
In reply to Maybe ckeck what midis2jam2… by Jojo-Schmitz
Resolved! MuseScore is fine, the other app is messing up but I've got a workaround.
After much head-scratching - and, ultimately, decoding the MIDI file by hand (given my background this was easier than installing midis2jam2) - I've determined that MuseScore appears to be doing everything correctly; the application I'm importing the MIDI file into is the one that's misinterpreting the values of some MIDI text-type meta events (Track Name and Marker, in this case) as lyrics.