Midi file minor key
I have a piece in G Minor. When I export the MIDI, the file displays either C major or B-flat major. What is the fix?
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I have a piece in G Minor. When I export the MIDI, the file displays either C major or B-flat major. What is the fix?
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Where does the file display this? Are you opening it in MuseScore or some other program? Can you attach the original score file and precise steps to reproduce the problem?
Note that the key signature for Bb *is* the key signature for G minor - same two flats either way. Also keep in mind MIDI is not really meant for conveying that sort of notation-specific information; it's really designed for playback only. If you need to retain notation information, you shouldn't be using MIDI. Can you explain in more detail what you are actually trying to do?
In reply to Where does the file display by Marc Sabatella
I'm mainly opening this in Synthesia, but other DAWs have a distinction between minor and major too. I've seen MIDI files that don't have this problem, so it must be with how I export it.
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Well, MuseScore has no means of distinguishing Bb major from G minor, and indeed, much real music in that key tends to wander back and forth anyhow so there is not always a hard and fast distinction. So since there is no way to tell MuseScore whether your piece is mostly Bb major or mostly G minor, it indeed won't record any mode information to the MIDI file - it just doesn't have the information available in the first place. A key signature to MuseScore is just a number of flats or sharps. It shouldn't make any difference, though - is there an actual problem you are seeing in your DAW software as a result of the mode information not being made explicit?
But if your score has a key signature of two flats, MuseScore should include that information in the MIDI file and does for me. So you should definitely be getting two flats and not zero. If you are finding otherwise, then indeed, there must be something going wrong with your particular score or how you are exporting it. So again, we'd need you to attach the score and give precise steps to reproduce the problem in order to help further.