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Bad MIDI files

No, they usually don't sound bad, but they always come out as music with really weird tie combinations like a doted sixtyfourth tied to a thirtysecond. In the MIDI of greatest love of all, it seems that the more you decrease the not and rest values the MIDI file only becomes worse instead of better. Is there any hope for these MIDI files?

Re: Bad MIDI files

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This was probably done by the MIDI author to prevent a sort of 'reverse engineering' to the song. I use the technique for all of my compositions on the rare chance that someone might want to take my material ;) You can create MIDI's like this by adding a doubly-dotted 32nd note rest (or other strange combination) to every staff in the beginning of the piece.

The answer to your question is that it's very hard to import MIDI files with this technique and not have to do heavy editing. Either that or you have a song that uses triplets - NWC does not support direct importing of triplets.
-j