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Importing MIDI files with Triplets. . . .

Doesn't seem to work well at all. Is there a fix for this?
Otherwise, I end up with a whole bunch o' quavers.

Noteworthy also can't seem to determine a time signature if
none is provided, and compound rhythm is a problem. How do
I take a midifile, and specify a Key Signature if none is
already there, without resorting to using something like
mf2t to switch the .mid to .txt and change it manually. . .

Also, this still doesn't fix the triplet problem.

Since you can't just 'insert' a single triplet into a score
(in NWC it seems you have to highlight 3 'beats' and make
it a triplet group....) perhaps it won't try to read in
triplets, in case it only finds one instead of 3. . .

Any thoughts?

-Steve.

p.s. I scanned through all 700+ threads, and haven't found
anything, but then again, it IS 4:30 in the morning, so who
knows???

Re: Importing MIDI files with Triplets. . . .

Reply #1 –
See https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=237, https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=297, https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=606.
Bottom line is NWC currently doesn't convert notes back to triplets (as MIDI doesn't store them as triplets, but just as notes that go on now and go off then). However, NWC can import triplets in a predictable way such that a recorder macro (recorder.exe came and went with Windows 3.1) can fix them very easily. See my homepage http://www.pcug.org.au/~apurdam/harmonograph/harmonograph.html for more info.

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Re: Importing MIDI files with Triplets. . . .

Reply #4 –
Version 2.0 allows a workaround.  Anything copied to the clipboard is in text so an editor with macro capabilities should be able to turn dotted16th, dotted16, 16th into triplet 8ths.