Re: MusicXML and MIDI

On 4/6/2016 4:44 AM, Jamie Gabriel wrote:
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> When Sibelius/Musescore generate MusicXML, I believe those applications
> round a bar of 4/4 to an integer of 1024. This means that any quarter
> note in the bar will be 256, and that three quaver triplets will be 85,
> 85, and 86. And so if you are doing any kind of data analysis on the
> musicXML you tend to run into problems because the rounding.

I note that common numbers in MIDI are 96 and 192... evenly divisible by 
2, 3, 4, and 8.

Seems like a good idea, that Sibelius and Musescore must have missed.

Maybe an extra factor of 3 would be nice, though.

Received on Wednesday, 6 April 2016 17:57:38 UTC