Re: [Denemo-devel] Midi Import not working

[Jeremiah Benham]

I think rosegarden does the best job at importing midi. You might want to open it up in rosegarden and then export it into musicXml or something. Then you can import it into denemo.

Jeremiah

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:22 +0100, address@hidden Bicycling Adventure wrote:
> Hi Richard, Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> The file is attached. Same track but totally different origins.

I've tried this on Denemo and on midi2ly (the LilyPond importer) and
both generate an unreadable score. I think the track is "real" music.
For example, I suspect that what are intended to be chords are actually
a succession of MIDI Note On events very close together. The second of
the two tracks you sent does contain some musical information (time
signature, for example, and names of instruments), but both have real
durations for notes that need some intelligence (artificial or
otherwise) to transform into a score. The other approach (probably only
doable on GNU/Linux machines) is to import it as audio into Denemo and
transcribe it from that (see the vimeo demo for this).

 I wonder do you (or anyone else here on the list) know if there are
programs that succeed in rendering this sort of MIDI into something it
would be reasonable to edit into a plausible score?
Have you tried MuseScore? If there is a program with free source code
that does something useful with this sort of input it could be a
starting point for a better MIDI import in Denemo.

Richard



>
> thanks
>
> Stephen

>
> On 13/04/2016 14:48, Richard Shann wrote:
> > You are probably not doing anything wrong, it is just that importing
> > MIDI (which is a specification of a heap of notes) into music notation
> > is a problematic activity. Hence the "Guided Import" which lets you
> > import one track at a time one note at a time.
> > This topic is of current interest in Denemo - would you like to send the
> > example MIDI file that you are trying to import? It makes a big
> > difference if it originated as the output of a music program or as the
> > output of a live performance on a MIDI instrument.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 14:36 +0100, address@hidden Bicycling Adventure wrote:
> >> Hi.   I have just started playing with Denemo.  I imported  a couple
> >> of Midi files from different sources.   I can play them fine with
> >> Windows media player, but when I play them in Denemo the notes all get
> >> jumbled up.   It reminded me of that famous Eric Morecambe quip to
> >> Andre Previn "I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in
> >> the right order".   Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen
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