Midi import = note overlap
I'm making my pieces in ProTools, then exporting midi files, then importing these into MS.
I'm quantising ALL the notes in PT, and checking there's no overlap (sadly PT doesn't seem to offer a 'legato' setting like Cubase does) - but there is certainly no overlap in the ProTools piano-roll.
Yet when I import, MS is showing overlaps, with loads of annoying ties, and sometimes rests to represent gaps which were not there in ProTools.
And these are REALLY simple parts, just 16 bars, with one instrument and semiquavers as shortest notes.
Why is this happening please?
Thanks
Tom
Comments
Try exporting from ProTools as MusicXML instead of MIDI (see [[nodetitle:Export]] for details).
In reply to Try exporting from ProTools by David Bolton
Hi David,
That looks like a good option, but I'm on PTLE 7, and there IS only one Export option available: MIDI.
I'll be upgrading to 8 soon, do you know if that feature will be available in 8?
Thanks for the reply
Tom
In reply to Hi David, That looks like a by TomBliss
I guess it's better to ask on Pro tools forum about their roadmap or even ask for MusicXML export if they don't provide it. After all you're their customer.
Regarding MuseScore MIDI import, could you attach a simple MIDI file to show the problem? It could be useful to solve this issue.
In reply to I guess it's better to ask on by [DELETED] 5
This one has lots of examples - but most of my scores have at least one tie or one gap.
I've quantised both ends of every note, then manually snapped them all to make doubly sure - but still, lots of ties.
Thanks
Tom
Have asked on DUC by the way - cheers
In reply to This one has lots of examples by TomBliss
It seems as though ProTools was not exporting a clean Midi file.
I have only tested one file so far, but the solution - for anyone else who calls by here with the same problem - seems to be to use the 'Legatogap' function (deep deep hidden away)
Select the midi region, go to MIDI - Real-Time Properties, click Duration and find the 'legatogap' option the middle grey box, then apply it to the MIdi track, and export.
Tom
In reply to It seems as though ProTools by TomBliss
And then it works OK in MuseScore? nice function! You know what it actually does?
In reply to And then it works OK in by [DELETED] 5
Err, no - 'fraid not. But I suspect that the basic midi quantise may have been a bit 'approximate,' and rather than fixing is, Avid may have just bodged in this more refined system, which is hard to find and even harder to fathom.
ProTools was always an audio system first and foremost, and they added midi as an afterthought. Whereas Cubase was the other way round and their early attempts at audio were simply terrible!
Tom