How do I import midi into a project?
Hi there,
I am trying to import midi tracks into my Musescore project because I need to make a score for a song that I have written in Logic Pro software. I try to drag and drop the midi file into musescore but when I do it then imports the midi into a completely new project and not my actual project that I dropped the midi file into. How can I stop Musescore from doing this? And the first midi file that I tried to import is just a very simple piano melody, but in musescore it looks absolutely crazy for some reason, it plays pretty much the same but it looks completely messed up. Have a look at my screenshot, cheers guys.
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Copy and paste the measures from the imported song into your score. Then you will need to arrange...
In reply to Ciao swampert948 by Shoichi
Ahh thank you I never thought of just copying and pasting the track back into my original project, but is it always supposed to do that? Meaning if you import midi will it always open into a new project? But I still don't understand why the melody is so hectic, maybe it's a problem with my midi file?
In reply to Ahh thank you by swampert948
There is indeed no way to import a MIDI file into the current score - it always creates a new score. So yes, if for some reason you must import a MIDI file into an existing file, copy and paste is the way to go.
But no, I doubt your file is any worse than any other MIDI file. MIDI is just not meant to convey the sort of information necessary to render a score well. There is way, way too much missing information to be able to expect good results in general.
In reply to There is indeed no way to by Marc Sabatella
So would you recommend just doing this manually instead of causing my self more problems by trying to simply import my MIDI tracks?
In reply to So would you recommend just by swampert948
Depends. Certainly, qantizing the tracks as well as you can first would help. But if you weren't being very careful to play only notatable rhythms, if you parts contians multiple independent rhythms (voices) int e same track, if you've combined both hands into the same track a lot, etc - then indeed, you might be better off just entering the nites manually.
See this, perhaps: http://musescore.org/en/faq/general#23631
Yeah that's the thing a lot of notes aren't completely on the beat, I could make them so they were but this would take a very long time. If I knew that this would completely work I probably would do it, but since there is a chance that obviously importing the MIDI wont work perfectly then it wont be worth my while.
I do also have the different registers for the instruments broken up into different tracks and again i can put them together but that's where I find again it just causes me problems when I import them.
Thank for your help and the same to everyone else <3
In reply to Yeah that's the thing a lot by swampert948
You probably don't need to do it manually. There should be a feature in logic called "Quantize" that will do the alignment work. It could be worth trying it. http://en.wikiaudio.org/Logic:_Quantizing_MIDI_data