converting midi - not coming out same as it plays on midi players

2010-06-04 10:27 pm

I am a singer. I use NW primarily to manually transcribe choral parts so I can play back and practice my part. I leave my staff volume high; I set the other parts to low volume; I practice. Works great. Used it for years.

Occasionally I find a midi file with what I want and I put it up. NW has always worked fine. Today it's failed on two files. The files are working with the same piano accompaniment which is written in triplets in a 4/4 environment. Each quarter note has 3 eighth notes (or two and a rest) comprising the triplet.

If I play the midi file with Windows Media Player (which I do before attempting the convert ... just to make certain it's what I want) all the triplets (and the 1/8 rests) are proper. When I do the convert into NW it's all wrong. The settings I'm using for the convert from midi are:
. automatic beam . note resolution ThirtySecond Note . Rest resolution Sixteenth Rest
What comes out is weird in the extreme. The actual music in the piano right hand staff is all 1/8 rests and 1/8 notes (staff down) ... it's in triplets, see. The rest of the notes in that staff are in standard quarter and half notes (staff up) as is the left hand staff. All the other staffs are also in non-triplet notation.

As I said above, playing it on Windows Media Player it sounds find. But when Noteworthy Composer converts it the notes in each "triplet" are not equal in length; they're dotted and 32nds and 16ths and what have you.

Any ideas? I'm not desperate about this ... I know the piece pretty well (Fauré's "Cantique de Jean Racine") as I've done it numerous times. But I'd like to resolve the problem for futures if that's possible.

Thank you,

Tony in Rindge, NH tonyinrindge@gmail.com

Re: converting midi - not coming out same as it plays on midi players

Reply #1 – 2010-06-04 10:46 pm

Quite often, midi pieces with triplets will not convert cleanly. There are user tools that you can use for NoteWorthy version 2 that will clean up the triplets but for a work like the Cantique, there would be a much to check to see if the tool has worked as you would expect.

I would suggest that you download the Cantique already in NoteWorthy form from the Scriptorium - There are three different versions there for you to choose.

1. http://nwc-scriptorium.org/db/classical/f/faucanjr.html

2. http://nwc-scriptorium.org/db/classical/f/fau_cjr.html

3. http://nwc-scriptorium.org/db/classical/f/faurcant.html

One of them should suit your needs.