Help! Some of the triplets in my MIDI file aren't being rendered properly.
Hi,
I wrote some music in Cakewalk Express that has a lot of triplets. When I save the score as MIDI type 0 or 1 and then open the MIDI file in MuseScore 4.4.2.242570931, some of the triplets seem to come through but others do not. I think this is a bug. I admittedly have no idea what I'm doing, which is why I use Cakewalk Express to compose in the first place. Help!
Thank you,
Aaron
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Also, where the import process didn't assign each note the correct length, when I select the three notes that I want to be part of each triplet and then click the triplet button in the toolbar, instead of them being combined into a triplet, each note becomes the start of its own separate triplet. Maybe that's the intended functionality but it's very confusing.
In reply to Also, where the import… by thinkcomp
That is indeed intended. The idea is that if you want 16th note triplets, you would first insert an eighth note (or eighth note rest), select it, and then the triplet command divides that duration into three. If you already have the three notes there, there isn't really a good way to change the duration of all of them to be part of one triplet. The quickest way (taking the example where you have G, F♯, and G, as 32nd, 16th, and 32nd notes) would be to select the first note, and press 4, Ctrl+3, G, +, F, G.
The 4 changes the first note in to an eighth note (the total duration of the desired triplet) which unfortunately deletes the other notes, and then Ctrl+3 makes the triplet and also selects the first note, so you can enter the notes immediately without having to re-select anything. The triplets in bar 20 were probably precisely the right length in the MIDI, so they converted correctly, whereas the ones in bar 19 must have been slightly off, resulting in the 32nd-16th-32nd patterns, and that septuplet that has dotted 32nds in it.
In reply to That is indeed intended. The… by jscaranomusic
Thanks for the quick reply. This makes sense, although I think the UI would definitely better if when you select three notes and press the triplet button, it understands that those should be turned into a triplet. I have a lot of trouble using MuseScore because of UI oddities like this, and especially since the composition mode (pencil icon) seems to be independent of a mode to edit notes that are already there. I often pencil in the wrong note and then want to change it, but I can't without switching modes first.
I do think the problem is the first place is a bug. When you look at the MIDI data, each note has a duration of 20, which means they should all be treated as triplets. Something is causing that to be thrown off and whatever that is seems to be unique to MuseScore. See attached screenshot.