The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55600   Message #864969
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
12-Jan-03 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: Tech: When MIDI is too picky
Subject: Tech: When MIDI is too picky
Today I downloaded a MIDI file of a great piece by Molinaro, circa 1599. But when I looked at it using Noteworthy Composer, I saw that the timing is over-precise. By that I mean that every staccato note is recorded as a dotted note of some sort followed by a funny-looking rest. Some of the notes have three tails, whatever that is. I'm sure Molinaro wrote it using sixteenth notes at the smallest.

When I import a MIDI file, there is a dialog box which asks for note and rest resolution, so I tried telling it to use only sixteenth notes and rests. Useless. I still got the crazy durations.

Does anybody know how to deal with this kind of problem?