Finale printmusic tie full#
Finale printmusic tie software#

He observes that at that time (and still unresolved) there were legal issues about programs facilitating copyright abuse. But it would be nice if they were the 'right' notes. Rick says Import was never meant to be more that a starting point to get some notes into the program. Thus, it's quite infuriating that it won't allow a File to be played from anywhere except the beginning! It's also rather irritating that it doesn't let you select any part of the score and then Ctrl-C and Crtl-V copy it into an open Composer window. Mind you, I appreciate that this is not the whole story, for if I import back into Composer one of my Composer Files output in Midi format it still gets note lengths 'wrong' - in particular, bits that were legato come back as 'marcato' (though at least that is easily dealt with by suitably inserting a Legato Performance Style.Īnd the present incarnation of Player has its own oddities, which I suspect are deliberate. and it might not actually fit whatever Composer itself would use for one of its defined notelengths, and so the import process starts with the nearest larger note and simply adds smaller and smaller tied notes until the result's the right length.

Finale printmusic tie full#

So, if a note appears to be shorter than its full length then it might be 'marcato', or it might be staccato, or it might be somewhere in between.

Finale printmusic tie software#

For example, since - so far as I am aware - the Midi File doesn't store barline data (though it does store the time signature), how can the import software determine whether the piece starts with a whole bar/measure or only part of a bar/measure (and if it gets it wrong then everything thereafter is screwed up)? For another example, strictly speaking Composer apparently only knows about the Performance Styles legato/tenuto (which sound much the same) and staccato, although if a staff has no set Style then its notes are played rather as if they were marcato - that is, each actually separated/spaced from the next rather than flowing on into it (like 'note note note.

And I suppose that one of the problems Midi import faces is in many cases it is simply impossible to decide for certain how a Midi File should be notated. However, I suspect that when Player plays the File it's playing the original Midi File, not what you'd get if you saved the visible notation in Midi format. It is particularly odd considering Noteworthy Player seems to do a rather better job - both in actually playing Midi Files and in converting them into suitable notation - and all without asking any questions about instrument and velocity changes, note/rest sizes, and so on. Alan's observations on the strangely poor ability of Composer 1.75 (and earlier) to import Midi Files and convert them into proper notation has annoyed me on several occasions.