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John Smith (johnsmi)
Senior Forum User
Username: johnsmi

Post Number: 61
Registered: 7-2006
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 7:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi All,
I've just been experimenting importing some (type 0) midi files
into NC and it does a great job. Sensible note distribution and assignment to correct clef and so on.

However I would just like to ask if NC does some kind of intelligent "tempo matching" - of notes to measures? The reason I ask is that I know for a fact the original files were recorded in real-time and will certainly have many timing errors (late/early/overlong/too short) notes etc. Yet looking the the resulting NC score it really very "clean". Is there more than "simple" quantizing going on here?

I could play short piece of music in 'accelerando' and see what happens I suppose... but even so would be interested in what the official position about this is.

NC, as usual, comes up with such excellent results.

Thanks,
Regards
-Johnsmi
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Mark Walsen (markwa)
Notation Software Developer
Username: markwa

Post Number: 3300
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:31 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hello John,

Do a search in the forum on the coined word "metronomeless". You'll find lots of talk about this.

Cheers
-- Mark

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