Separating the two staves of an instrument into two instruments
I have a MIDI that has the two piano staves as part of a single instrument, see screenshot 1piano.jpg
I would like to separate the two staves such that each stave is its own instrument, so that I end up with the MIDI's instruments looking like in screenshot 2pianos.jpg (screenshot comes from a different MIDI, which already has separate instruments)
Can anyone please tell me how I can do this separation using MS 1.3? I need to do this so that my keyboard can see the two staves as separate tracks, which I can rehearse separately as LH (left hand) and RH (right hand).
Many thanks in advance!
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Create a Score with two Grand Paino staves, then delete the 2nd line from the 1st and the 1st line from the 2nd
In reply to Create a Score with two Grand by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for your reply! I think your suggestion refers to starting a dual-isntrument MIDI from scratch, whereas what I want to do is to convert an existing single-isntrument MIDI into a dual-instrument MIDI
In reply to Thanks for your reply! I by longtalker
So add another grand piano staff, end delet its 1stline. copy/paste the 2nd line from the other staff into the remaining line, than delete that other staff line
Hi longtalker -
I think what you could do is to create two new instruments, one for piano left-hand and one for piano right-hand. You can do that in the Create Instruments window by adding two new piano instruments, then clicking the the hand you don't want and removing it for each one.
Then select the measures for the "full piano" part in the hand you want, copy them and paste them into the new hand part (for each of left and right hands).
When you're done, you can delete the full piano part and you are left with the two hands separately.
Hope that's clear.
I'd recommend that you save the original score under a different name before you do this.
Fifist
In reply to Create two new instruments and cut and paste? by Fifist
Thanks, I'll try that & report back!
In reply to Thanks, I'll try that & by longtalker
That worked perfectly fine! I wish other software had such amazing support as MuseScore! :)
Incidentally, two problems:
1) I wanted to delete the first 146 measures, but after selecting the portion of the top stave between the beginning of the piece and until measure 146 (Shift+click), MS always and "reliably" crashes upon pressing Ctrl+Delete (MIDI file attached) to delete those measures.
2) I pressed F11 to bring up the play panel, and changed the tempo to a certain bpm value, however after saving the MIDI file and moving it to the keyboard, it's still played at its default 120 bpm value. Is this parameter not saved with the MIDI?
In reply to That worked perfectly fine! I by longtalker
The speed from play panel is never saved with the score, you need a tempo text for that
In reply to The speed from play panel is by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks! Any idea with regard to the first problem (crash upon trying to delete a selection of measures)?
In reply to The speed from play panel is by Jojo-Schmitz
Btw I created a tempo text in my MIDI, and set it to 40 bpm, but when transferring it onto the keyboard, the tempo is still the default one (120 bpm)..
In reply to Btw I created a tempo text in by longtalker
Do you mean you created the tempo text in MuseScore, then saved it as MIDI? When you say you set it to 40, do you mean you just entered 40 as the text, or did you actual set it to 40 in the tempo properties? What happens if you play the MIDI file on your computer using some other program - perhaps it is just that your keyboard ignores MIDI tempo info?
If none of this helps, could you post the score and the MIDI you generated from it?
How do we do the reverse of this; make separately staffed instrument parts into two staffs (Left and right hand)?
https://musescore.com/user/2694441/scores/1171266
In reply to How do we do the reverse of by uiriamu98
See https://musescore.org/en/node/12345