repeats with midi export
Whenever I want to export some sheet music in the midi format all my repeats disappear. Well, they actually get converted into how you really play the notes. So in other words, if there are two measure with the repeat signs, the signs disappear and instead I get 4 measures. This is not really dramatical but that's not what I want.
If I use the MuseScore file type .mscz for the same sheet music the measures are stored untouched.
Is this a bug or a feature? Is there something I can do to preserve the repeat signs when exporting as midi-file?
Comments
See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tools#unroll-repeats
HTH
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/preferences#export, where you can configure whether to export repeats to midi or not
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you .... that was a quick one. I didn't even think of looking at the settings ...
In reply to Thank you .... that was a… by manfreak
Well, too quick .... it doesn't work, the software behaves as before, event though I took the checkmark off. It still doesn't save the repeat signs.
Any other suggestions?
In reply to Well, too quick .... it… by manfreak
Repeat signs is nothing that setting is about and nothing that midi can do. It can just unroll repeats or not
In reply to Repeat signs is nothing that… by Jojo-Schmitz
So when I write a piece of music and export it, I can just decide whether the repeats shall be unrolled or not.
If I import the Midi-file again it will never contain any repeats, right.
Then the default setting "expand" makes sense again, Thanks.
Does MXL do a better job there? Can it also store text which Midi doesn't support I guess?
I chose Midi in the first place since it is very versatile and wide spread unlike the mscz-format.
In reply to So when I write a piece of… by manfreak
Yes. MIDI is not designed to carry anything more than pitch, channel (instrument/sound) and duration, totally useless to exchange scores, use xml, musicxml, mxl for that
In reply to So when I write a piece of… by manfreak
MSCZ is the only format that will record everything you do in MuseScore. But it's true other programs won't understand it. What other programs are you expecting to use? MusicXML is certainly far better than MIDI, and it tries to be like a universal language that you can translate anything into, but as with all translations, it's not perfect. Try using Google Translate to translate a paragraph of text from English to French and back, and see how closely it resembles the original. Probably at least recognizable, but with lots of subtle changes and errors along the way.
So by all means, feel free to export to MusicXML and other programs will be able to get the gist of your music, but don't think of these as a substitute for MSCZ - they aren't. They are just a way to facilitate communication between programs whose native languages are different. But each program will work best with files in its native language.