NWC info and comments exported?

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NWC info and comments exported?

1999-05-13 04:00 am

Eric,

I'll start a new thread for this question. In "Musical Truncation" I started msuing about what extra "text" information gets exported to and imported from MIDI files.
eg Author, Copyright clauses, comments. Could you please clarify what goes where? Is there a generic text block for midi files?

On a slightly related note. There are one or two midi formats that contain words for "follow the bouncing ball" midi players (Macs have one, I just can't remember the name right now). I think I know the answer to this, but are there any plans to be able to import them at some time? (At least into Player?)

Andrew

Re: NWC info and comments exported?

Reply #1 – 1999-05-13 04:00 am

Song title, author, and copyright are all exported per the MIDI File Options block in Tools | Options | File. The help on these options explains what they do. The fields are exported as follows:

Title: If the header is placed in the Conductor track, then this field is export as a Sequence Name, otherwise is is exported as a generic text item.

Author: Always exported as a generic text item, but the word "By " is inserted in front of the author text.

Copyright: These are exported using the Copyright tag. Each copyright line is exported as a separate Copyright meta event.

During import, the same fields are recreated if they appear to conform to NWC conventions, as described above.

No other text, such as lyrics or text expressions, are currently exported or imported in NWC or the Player.

Re: NWC info and comments exported?

Reply #2 – 1999-05-13 04:00 am

One other text item: Staff names are exported as Sequence Name events in a type 1 file.

Re: NWC info and comments exported?

Reply #3 – 1999-05-14 04:00 am

Ta!

Re: NWC info and comments exported?

Reply #4 – 1999-05-14 04:00 am

Here's an example:

MFile 1 4 192
MTrk
0:0:0 Meta SeqName "Chawin' my Tobackey"
0:0:0 Meta Text "By Jethro Podunk"
0:0:0 Meta Copyright "Copyright \xa9 1969 by Jethro Podunk"
0:0:0 Meta Copyright "All Rights Reserved, y'all don't steal this!"
0:0:0 Meta Text "Generated by NoteWorthy Composer"
0:0:0 TimeSig 4/4 24 8
0:0:0 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd
MTrk
0:0:0 Meta 0x21 00
0:0:0 Meta TrkName "Jaw Harp"
0:0:0 ProgCh ch=1 prog=104
0:0:0 Param ch=1 con=7 val=127
0:0:0 Param ch=1 con=10 val=64
0:0:0 On ch=1 note=c6 vol=75
0:0:160 On ch=1 note=c6 vol=0
[...]
0:3:160 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd
MTrk
0:0:0 Meta 0x21 00
0:0:0 Meta TrkName "Banjo"
0:0:0 ProgCh ch=2 prog=105
0:0:0 Param ch=2 con=7 val=127
0:0:0 Param ch=2 con=10 val=64
0:0:0 On ch=2 note=c5 vol=75
0:0:160 On ch=2 note=c5 vol=0
[...]0:3:160 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd
MTrk
0:0:0 Meta 0x21 00
0:0:0 Meta TrkName "Washtub Bass"
0:0:0 ProgCh ch=3 prog=32
0:0:0 Param ch=3 con=7 val=127
0:0:0 Param ch=3 con=10 val=64
0:0:0 On ch=3 note=c4 vol=75
0:1:144 On ch=3 note=c4 vol=0
0:2:0 On ch=3 note=g3 vol=75
0:3:144 On ch=3 note=g3 vol=0
0:3:144 Meta TrkEnd
TrkEnd

Re: NWC info and comments exported?

Reply #5 – 1999-05-17 04:00 am

And what about lyrics from .kar files ? Could they be imported/exported in a future version ? (to import them, one can currently use an old dos editor...)

Thx for this clarification about info fields :-)

Marsu