Is it currently possible for me to have Dorico render a printable MIDI version of my traditionally notated musical examples? ChatGPT says I can, and gives me instructions for how!!! (Unless I’m thick, they are hallucinatory. Or maybe I’m just plain thick?)
In a time when some musicians read traditional notation and others only work with MIDI, this would be extremely useful. It might help MIDI readers to get more comfortable with traditional notation, and vice versa. Also, it’s incredibly hard/awkward to show chords and lyrics using MIDI notation. Finally, because Dorico already offers both options, “perhaps it’s not that hard” (sorry, Daniel!) to find a way to do this?
I offer this as a question rather than a request in case someone has figured out an easy way to accomplish something similar to the example below–something I created a few years ago but decided it would be far too much for the many hundred musical examples I’m working with.
In case it would help to see one example of my ongoing project to get a better sense of why this might help draw in a wider audience, follow this link for an example. All of the musical examples were created with Dorico.
Hi @davidfuentes, an interesting idea what you propose.
Sorry, I have no solution; just a consideration (but maybe there are other acceptable methods to obtain what you want?):
since “piano rolls” have generally no notion of note spacing, nor spacing gaps, you would need to set the Layout Options and Engraving Options as indicated in the example below, to make notes and bars in the score coincide with the key editor events and bars (after carefully dragging the key editor ruler to match the Galley viewed score position).
And the score would certainly look awful:
(I can imagine variations of this method, for example using open meter, and adding fake barlines later in a graphic editor app, but nothing easy and fast):
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Thanks, Christian! You’re absolutely right about alignment. That’s what took me so long when I tried to use a drawing program to meld the two notations together. For people who read MIDI notation, proportion is an important aspect in understanding rhythm.
I am curious, though how you got the MIDI and traditional notation to show in the same score? I can’t figure that part out. Or did you combine the two notations in a graphic editor?
All best,
David
Do people actually read piano roll? As in … hum it?
I’ve seen hundreds of YouTube videos where the instructor uses MIDI notation to teach musical skills/concepts. MIDI has made it possible for more people to avoid learning traditional notation and still get a visual sense for what happens when. That sort of visual reference point is incredibly helpful when talking about a specific passage of music.
Right. I meant finding a way to show it as part of the score. But as I think that through, I see that it’s not possible. Thanks!
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