A GIANT STEP FOR MIDI TO STYLE

[♔Chello]

A GIANT STEP FOR MIDI TO STYLE

I have now worked with creating styles from midi for 7 years, and have learned everything without help from others.
Apart from the problem of transposing midi files, which almost never have the right key, as the vast majority are programmed to F, and must be transposed 5 half-steps either up or down.

According to gurus, a midi that is to be used to create a style must be programmed to C for the harmonization to be correct.

This has involved a good deal of work with programs such as Anvil Studio, which incidentally often cause serious errors with the harmonization, so that everything becomes disharmonious.

7 years ago we had a member in the forum who was fully trained and certified in midi.
This person had worked with midi all his life, and was the one who explained to me that all midi files must first be transposed to C in order to be processed in eg Style Works.
In all the years I have done this as he recommended, and have encountered many problems with poor sound, which turns out to be due to high transposition.

I have carried out extensive tests over the past few days and can state the following:
Some instruments tolerate high transposition worse than others - pianos and guitars very often get an unbearably bad sound if transposed from F to C.

A few days ago I experienced something strange when I failed to transpose the midi file - I only transposed intros and endings - in Style Works; I didn't use Anvil Studio.
This style worked as it should on the Pa5X, and I thought it was the Pa5X's AI that made this possible.
That's not how it is.

It is beyond doubt via extensive testing that it is not necessary (or correct) to transpose midi files to C.
The sound is also normalized if transposition is omitted.

The solution is like this with Style Works:
Set variations/mains/fills as neutral, and transpose intros and endings as playback +/- necessary half-steps so that these get the same key as they have as neutral.
As simple as that.

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