I’m participating in a composition contest for wind band music, and one of the things I have to send in is a plain MIDI file.
The piece is already finished, so out of interest I just hit “Export > MIDI” and the result was… Awful. I mean, I did not expect it to be great in any shape or form, but most of the sounds are just piano, some instruments sound like some sort of hammond organ. The real instrumentation is flute, clarinet, saxophones, trumpet - just the regular stuff. As I use NotePerformer as playback template I already expected some work coming up on me here, so I’m not surprised by any means.
What do I have to do in order to get from a project that uses Noteperformer to a project that exports as best as possible using General MIDI instruments?
Have you tried “Save As…” and then apply a different Playback Template? I remember that one of the stock templates sets the correct program change so MIDI renderers behave accordingly.
The problem is that General MIDI uses Program Changes to set the instrument, which Dorico doesn’t really use. (Though it can set them in Ex maps.)
That, and of course that the MIDI file will contain all the CCs and key switches that NP’s Expression Map is sending.
I would try exporting from the Silent template (if that even works), or maybe the HALion Sonic Selection basic library, and then you might have to adjust the instruments in a DAW.
At least in the past, that yielded nothing. I believe Dorico needs to generate the MIDI for a VST or external port in order to export it. If it’s silence, no MIDI will be generated.
I mean, I did not expect it to be great in any shape or form, but most of the sounds are just piano, some instruments sound like some sort of hammond organ. The real instrumentation is flute, clarinet, saxophones, trumpet - just the regular stuff. As I use NotePerformer as playback template I already expected some work coming up on me here, so I’m not surprised by any means.
