Midi import title get garbled

Hi,

When importing a midi-file (in my case the Lorne Balfe - HDM Main Titles.mid, which is used in the youtube tutorial by DiscoverDorico here: DAW to Score | Discover Dorico - YouTube )
The Titles get all garbled up, and show this: ???A???o???A??????L
Kinda hard to read, and in the youtube video, those texts are displayed just fine.

Also I found the imported result very different then in the youtube video, with extremely weird notes/noteheads…

Is there a setting somewhere that is set incorrectly ?
I’m using Dorico 4 Pro on Windows 11 64bit.

Can anyone shed a light on this ?
Thanks,
Paul.

Text encoding in MIDI files is a bit dodgy because the MIDI standard long predates Unicode. There’s also no way of defining in a MIDI file what codepage should be used to interpret the text, so you’re at the mercy of assumptions we make about how to interpret those characters.

As for the notation, perhaps you need to specify in the MIDI Import Options dialogs what the minimum quantisation value should be, and you may also want to split tracks with multiple notes out onto separate instruments.

It’s apparent that this is not a Dorico problem !
When I analysed the .midi file with a vbscript that I created to understand how midi files are constructed, the garbled text is there too… in plain ASCII:

**************************************** 1 ****************************************
14	4D	M
15	54	T
16	72	r
17	6B	k
mtrk  MTrk
18	00	
19	00	
20	00	
21	31	1
tlen  00000031
delta  0
23	FF	
status FF
24	03	
meta_soort 03
Meta event encountered: FF 03
25	1A	
text length 26
26	3F	?
27	3F	?
28	3F	?
29	41	A
30	3F	?
31	18	
32	3F	?
33	18	
34	3F	?
35	6F	o
36	3F	?
37	3F	?
38	3F	?
39	41	A
40	3F	?
41	18	
42	3F	?
43	18	
44	3F	?
45	18	
46	3F	?
47	18	
48	3F	?
49	18	
50	3F	?
51	4C	L
52 text: ???A???o???A??????L
delta  0
53	FF	
status FF
54	51	Q
meta_soort 51
Meta event encountered: FF 51
55	03	
fixed 03
56	0A	
tempo 0A
57 Set Tempo: 10 microseconds per quarter note

So, blame the composer in this case :sweat_smile: