MIDI has no concept of rests whatsoever, not just whole measure rests. Rests trigger nothing in the world of MIDI devices, so they simply don't exist. You must infer rests via note end and the next note begin for a track, if you really need them.
On 4/5/2017 8:48 AM, Linwood wrote: > lasconic wrote >> I believe your implementation will output an event for each track, right? >> Do you really need this? > I didn't answer this, sorry. That's a firm "maybe". The problem is full > measure rests do not generate any midi events at all, so as an example, if > only base is played for the first 5 measures, and I output only on the first > track, I miss those five entirely. I could probably create something to > track and see if I've output measure X before and suppress it, however I'd > need to also match it to some kind of tick since in repeats I DO want to > output that measure again. > > But in reality, disk space is cheap, midi output is tiny overall, and even > if this adds 30% to the size of a file it's a non-event for me. I could see > if this were done in orchestra music with a huge number of tracks it might > be different. I've got two (that was another aspect of this -- by working > in Export Midi I fixed it to only output the grand staff when there's a > vocal staff above it, and since it's just for me it's hard coded to "2" -- I > can remove that when 3.0 has the midi channel controls). > > Thanks again for the pointer. By staying in just ExportMidi I paid more > attention to it, and doing the track/channel manipulation was pretty easy as > well. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://dev-list.musescore.org/Possible-new-feature-memory-leak-in-midi-output-question-tp7580206p7580210.html > Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Mscore-developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
