Midi Tracks Sometimes Out of Order

• Jul 12, 2012 - 00:46

Need to get all the midi tracks from this piece:

http://musescore.com/user/13522/scores/55853

For some reason when I save as mid or download the mid, the tracks are out of order.

What's going on here and how do I fix it?

I know I could order the tracks by hand... but that would take me more time than all the stuff I plan on doing to them, so I'd really rather not (and it'd be extremely irritating).


Comments

You have noticed that this piece is released under an All Rights Reserved copyright?

You would be breaking the law by using or modifying this material in your own work, never mind the ethical implications of doing so.

The most probable reason is that MIDI only has 16 channels. In order to play this piece on MIDI equipment you would need several multi-timbral synths spread across a number of MIDI ports.

When MuseScore converts a score to MIDI it starts again at 1 when it has run out of MIDI channels, and consequently the tracks get out of order. To get them into the same order as in the score you would have to load the MIDI file into a sequencer and manipulate the tracks in that.

In reply to by ChurchOrganist

When trying to edit the piece to cut it down to into 10 part segments, removing a large number of instruments crashed the program.

My job is to make the piece listenable, no laws being broken, don't worry.

I will now be using Sibelius to work with the piece, having exported it as Mxml.

However, out of curiousity, how would one handle this using MuseScore, and I think this should certainly be considered a bug. The tracks don't start at 1 again, they appear to be labeled properly from 0 to 30.

The Mxml export also seems to have dropped some of the instruments (such as the Piccolo) down an octave. Is this a new problem?

Hi Calem

I'm curious about the crash - could you provide exact steps to reproduce it?

What MuseScore version and operating system are you using?

1.2 doesn't support drums when importing or exporting MusicXML, but 2.0 does - that will be released perhaps later this year, so perhaps you could wait until then to do whatever. I wouldn't recommend it, but if you require it now and are careful, you can try a nightly build .

In reply to by chen lung

Sibelius fixed it for now (I try to use MuseScore on principle). I'll check out working with the nightly build later.

For the crash, I booted MScore and tried removing all the instruments after the bass trombone through the instruments menu. When I tried to apply this change, it froze and crashed.

boot > i > remove instruments one by one (I thought a double click would be able to remove an instrument but you have to select it and then hit remove? perhaps we should be able to double click to remove instruments) > apply > crash

Win 7 Pro
i7, 8g RAM
MScore 1.2

Also, is the UI still unlocked on the nightly build?

In reply to by chen lung

Sibelius fixed it for now (I try to use MuseScore on principle). I'll check out working with the nightly build later.

For the crash, I booted MScore and tried removing all the instruments after the bass trombone through the instruments menu. When I tried to apply this change, it froze and crashed.

boot > i > remove instruments one by one (I thought a double click would be able to remove an instrument but you have to select it and then hit remove? perhaps we should be able to double click to remove instruments) > apply > crash

Win 7 Pro
i7, 8g RAM
MScore 1.2

Also, is the UI still unlocked on the nightly build?

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