Track setupo in exported Standard MIDI File
I was a bit startled to find that when MuseScore exports a Standard MIDI file it puts the notes from the first part on the score in Track 0, along with the usual "score-wide" stuff usually found in Track 0.
It is "customary" to limit Track 0 to score-wide data, and put the note data from the first part in Track 1, and so forth.
I believe that MuseScore's approach is "legitimate", but some potential receiving programs, perhaps not as "well read" as might be, do not deal with it properly. Overture (you remember Overture) is among those.
It would probably be better for MuseScore to follow the "custom" and not put part note information in MIDI Track 0.
Just sayin'
Stay safe.
Doug
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I find that Cakewalk Home Studio and Cakewalk by BandLab, orthodox MIDI-wallopers, are slightly baffled by the MuseScore format, at the least failing to label the track created from MIDI Track 0 with the encoded track name but rather always labeling it "Track 1" (these programs at the human interface always label the reconstructed tracks from 1 up).
Doug
In reply to I find that Cakewalk Home… by Doug Kerr
Well, closer to home, It doesn't seem that MuseScore takes in a multi-track MIDI file generated by MuseScore very well either.
I need to do some more testing here to be certain exactly what is happening.
Doug
In reply to Well, closer to home, It… by Doug Kerr
It seems that I was in error in reporting that MuseScore did not well take in a Standard MIDI File it generated with multiple parts.
(I had my test file names screwed up!)
It does so credibly.
Doug
This has been requested before, I think at this point everyone agrees it makes sense, it just hasn't happened yet. I would guess it right as part of the major audio redesign happening for MuseScore 4.
In reply to This has been requested… by Marc Sabatella
Hi, Marc,
Gotcha.
Thanks.
Doug
Cross-linking to the relevant issue: #207346: MIDI export: the first track should not contain note events
In reply to Cross-linking to the… by jeetee
jeetee,
Thanks.
Doug