Midi File Import Help

• Oct 15, 2021 - 04:01

Hi There,

I have a piano score from another software (Notion 6 from Presonus) that was exported as a MIDI file (.mid) and I'm trying to open it in musescore 3, but it opens all messed up in musescore. The bass and treble clefs are sometimes swapped, sometimes two bass clefs, it's a mess. I'm not sure if this is a setting I need to change? Photos below of what the score looks like in the original software and what the .mid file is opening in musescore. All help appreciated!

Jake

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• Oct 15, 2021 - 09:10

This is what the MuseScore Handbook says about MIDI import for piano (my emphasis in bold):

Split staff
This option is suited mainly for piano tracks - to assign notes to the left or right hand of the performer. It uses constant pitch separation (the user may choose the pitch via sub-options) or floating pitch separation (depending on the hand width - sort of a guess from the program point of view).

@jacobsamuel24
Such an option to choose the split point would be ideal, because your piece has nothing in Piano RH below C4 (middle C) and Piano LH has nothing above B-flat 3. But I can't find where the user can choose the split point manually. It seems that the "sub-option" wasn't implemented?

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• Oct 15, 2021 - 10:28

It is there is you split staff using the split staff command after importing to a single staff.

So (1) uncheck "split staff" during import to avoid the fancy guessing algorithm.
Then (2) right-click into the staff and choose "Split staff" command which will offer you to set the split point.

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