Composer 3 discrepancy with MuseScore 3 & Yamaha MOX

[sospiri]

Hi Sherry,
Thanks for your explanation. Whether this shortcoming is fixed in MIDI 2.0 or not is largely academic as is it unlikely to see the light of day in the current batch of instruments. And then we have Yamaha's oddball implementation of MIDI..... LOL! :-)

[Reinhold H.]

The MIDI-1.0 protocol contains the meta event "Key signature" (see page 10 of the MIDI-1.0 spec).

In our software we use the logic

• if the Meta Event "key signature" exits in the MIDI file then the software takes this event to become the key signature
• in case there is no "key signature" MIDI event present, the software does a best guess

The attached MIDI file "come fly pt.mid" contains the MIDI meta event key signature to be F#. This key is used when imported.

I have checked the 6 other major notation programs which we use for interface testing. MuseScore is the only one which goes with B sharp but everyone else chooses F# just like Composer.

Reinhold

[Sherry C]

Hi guys,


Well I sit corrected



Perhaps I was remembering the "recording into Composer" scenario.
Anyway, I appreciate Reinhold setting me (and the record) straight!


ttfn,
Sherry

[sospiri]

Reinhold,


I don't doubt what you say at all and perhaps we shall never get to the bottom of this. My friend in the UK found this on the internet and again it is incomplete:- https://www.ejazzlines.com/mc_files/2/jlp9551.pdf


Sospiri