At 6:00 PM -0500 11/8/02, Crystal Premo wrote:
I just got a call from a film maker who wants me to make her midi files into Finale files, clean them up and print them out in parts. Sounds easy enough, but what would be the process?You'd better tell her "I'd have to see an example first".
First of all you would have to tell her to save her MIDI files (unless that's already what they are) as "standard MIDI files" and give you those... not files in Performer or Cakewalk or some sequencer program.
Finale will open the MIDI files, and if she did it right, each instrument will appear on a different staff (heaven help you if the piano parts were all on the same midi file so that left and right hand are smushed into one staff). And you can go from there. A lot of things will come across as garbage, Grace notes, triplets, etc... They work SOMETIMES, and sometimes....
Also has this music been step recorded or quantized into some kind of order, or just played in with a keyboard any old way. If the latter, I'd run for the hills. You're better off getting a recording and notating it by ear.
Acutally, you know what? I'd set a fee so high that either she says "forget it" or you are well compensated for the world of pain you are undoubtedly in for.
This is nightmare stuff. Did you ever try to undo a mess of yarn that has become hopeless tangled, separating out the various colors and picking out the knots? Or tried to straighten out six or seven strands of Christmas lights that were just thrown together willy-nilly into a box last December?
That's what this kind of task is like.
Good luck,
Linda
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