MIDI files

PrintMusic both imports and exports standard MIDI files. A MIDI file has a format that can be understood by music programs from different companies, including most sequencer programs. If you prefer to compose by improvising in your favorite sequencer, you could save your piece as a standard MIDI file and let PrintMusic notate it for you.

When you save a MIDI file, PrintMusic saves the instrument name (from the Score Manager) as the track name. When you open a MIDI file, PrintMusic uses the track name as the staff name (which appears in the Staff Attributes dialog box).

To import a MIDI file

To create the MIDI file, follow your sequencer’s instructions.

1. Choose MIDI > Quantization Settings. The Quantization Settings dialog box appears.
2. Click the icon representing your smallest note value. This is the smallest note value PrintMusic will round to while importing the file.
3. Select Tuplets if your MIDI file contains any triplets, quintuplets, etc.
4. Select Tie Syncopations if your MIDI file contains rhythms that extend over primary beats.
5. Click OK.
6. Choose File > Open. The Open dialog box appears.
7. From the File Types popup menu at the bottom of the window, choose MIDI File. The names of any available MIDI files appear in the list box.
8. Double-click the desired document name. PrintMusic transcribes the MIDI file into standard notation. If you discover that your settings weren’t quite right, you can close the new PrintMusic document and try again—the original MIDI file is unaffected by PrintMusic’s transcription efforts.

To export a MIDI file of the entire document

1. Make sure that you have assigned instruments correctly (one for each resultant sequencer track).

   When PrintMusic creates a MIDI sequencer file, it places the music you’ve assigned to each instrument in the Score Manager in a separate sequencer track. Therefore, make sure the instrument configuration is set up the same way that you want the resultant tracks to be set up.

2. Choose File > Export > MIDI File. The Save As dialog box appears.
3. Enter a title in the text box.
4. Click Save (or press RETURN).

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