Percussion midi files are not being recognized in Aria Player when exported from Musescore to be played in DAW
I know how to export midi and set up VST through Reaper, but for some reason the Garritan Aria Player does not even acknowledge any kind of non pitched percussion files exported from Musescore. All of my pitched instruments are fine and playing, but the percussion is not working. The only work around I can do for this is to export a Piano part playing all of the rhythms of the certain percussion part I want, and just change the VST in reaper. This works, but is massively tedious, I would rather just be able to play the exported percussion midi. Can anyone help me or has anyone run into the same problem?
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MuseScore's MIDI export assumes General MIDI drums which will require a compatible soundfont to play them back.
I suspect that the problem you are having is that Garritan's Percussion is not General MIDI compatible, and so consequently the note-mapping is off.
You should be able to load a GM drum soundfont into Aria to rectify this.
I would, however, contact Garritan support to confirm this.
NB I refer to an SFZ soundfont - not a standard SF2 version.
In reply to MuseScore's MIDI export by ChurchOrganist
Is it correct to refer to an SFZ library with the term "SoundFont" (regardless of capitalization)?
In reply to Is it correct to refer to an by Isaac Weiss
Good question.
Strictly speaking no, but I have seen it used in this context several times, and it saves explanation about what an SFZ library is.
In reply to MuseScore's MIDI export by ChurchOrganist
I'm aware of note mapping, and I've checked that. Even when I edit the note mapping to be right on, Reaper and the Aria player just don't play the note. If I input a note via the midi editor into those specific files, it will play my inputted note but nothing from the original. I can see the midi file in the editor as well, so I have no idea what is going on. It's as if the Aria player just can't see any of the percussion files exported from Musescore. Usually notes will play on the virtual keyboard regardless of note mapping, but there is nothing playing. When compared to the Midi Exports from pitched instruments, notes do play on the virtual keyboard and everything is working fine. Which is why I used the workaround of exporting a pitched instrument and just using the percussion VST on that, as the Aria Player does play that. Thank you for helping me, I'm very much a novice and what I said might have been wrong, but I'm not quite sure it's just the note mapping being off.
In reply to I'm aware of note mapping, by pricetones
Hmm....
I wonder if the GM drum bank select is throwing it off?
GM2 drums sets a track to be percussion by sending a Bank Select message of #128 followed by the drum set program change number.
Have you tried Garritan support? I'm pretty sure they'll be able to help you better than we can as they will know the idiosyncrasies of their own software, whereas we are really working in the dark.
Be assured that MuseScore outputs percussion tracks which conform to the SMF standard, so it is some weirdness at the player end.