I have created a score with Garritan instruments including violin, choir ahs and steinway piano and exported as a MIDI. I have saved it on a Yamaha CVP-307 Clavinova. When playing back on the Clavinova I have lost all violin and choir and the piano part is pretty bland. How do I tell what I'm sending to the Clavinova so that I may interpret it appropriately?
Alex, Thanks for posting.
Yes. I reopen the midi file in Protools and I edit the notes. But that takes a lot of time. The decisions that Finale makes with regards to repeated notes does not make sense. Is there no way to change it so that moving notes would have longer values and repeated notes shorter? I am not sure why that the programers chose to do it the way they did.
A MIDI file is like a piano roll: it contains no sounds at all. So if your MIDI file sounds bad on your Clavinova, it is likely that your Clavinova sounds are responsible for what you hear, or else you have mismatched the MIDI channels in the file you imported and the channels the Clavinola uses to address those sounds.
Is there no way to change it so that moving notes would have longer values and repeated notes shorter?
It's not worth doing this in Finale. You can technically use the advanced MIDI tools, but it's awfully cumbersome. You will be much happier doing this in a DAW as you have complete control. In Logic, there are many functions that speed this process up, such as "Quantize Note Length" in the MIDI Transform window and "Force Legato". I don't use Pro Tools for MIDI, but it probably has similar shortcuts and tricks.
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