Help with triplets for export to midi

I'm working on getting better at playing boogie woogie. I downloaded synthesia for my ipad, it gives me feedback when I play wrong notes, which i find helpful...
So this is what I've been doing.. I manually enter the exercises from a boogie woogie workbook into musescore. The author said that triplets were more accurate, though the notation in the book was a dotted eighth note followed by a 16th note. I put triplets into musescore. I then exported the score to a MIDI file, so that I could import into synthesia. I've done this with other pieces (without triplets) with no issues in translation, but I'm finding that my triplets seem to export over as dotted 8's followed by 16's. It's throwing me because I will also practice with musescore, and the scores look 'different' now.

Am I better off writing them as dotted 8/16 instead of triplets? Is that why the books are often published that way instead of with triplet notation? I've only done 2 exercises so far, and would like to sort this out before I go thru the whole book. :)

Thanks for any advice. I know it's not really a musescore issue, but more of a MIDI issue.