Type of File

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Hi,

The ".not" is the special Notation Software file format that saves all score formatting and free text and such. You can also use File/Export, and export the file as a MIDI Type 1 .mid file. If your keyboard needs a Type 0 format, you can use a small utility such as GN1.0 doing the following (this is from our KnowledgeBase):

You can fairly easy work around this problem by using a free MIDI utility that converts MIDI File Format Type 1 to Type 0, as follows:

1. Download the program named GN1.0 (file name gn1to0.zip)
from http://www.gnmidi.com/gnfreeen.htm

2. Unzip the gn1to0.zip file in a permanent directory
in which you wish to save the program.

3. Run the unzipped program named gn1to0.exe

4. In the GN1to0 program, use the File / Open command to
open the MIDI file that you saved in your MidiNotate or Notation product.

5. Click the '0' button in the toolbar of GN1to0. This will
immediately convert the MIDI file from Format Type 1 to
Format Type 0.

6. Use the File / Save As command to save the newly
converted file.

Enjoy
Sherry

I got to this thread from an error message when trying to open a file I had downloaded. The site offers .pdf files of scores and the one I picked was Claire de Lune (too hard for me at the moment, but that is a different story). The published .pdf looks very much like the printed copy that I have been working from, but when I processed the .midi file through GN1to0 and loaded it into (the trial version of) Notation Composer it is barely recognizable. I accepted the suggestion to split to 2 hands. Here is the source of the .midi and .pdf files; http://www.free-scores.com/download-...ic.php?pdf=608 Is there some other processing step that I need to go through to get a more "normal" looking score ? At least it got the key signature right, though not the meter.