musescore / musescore/MuseScore

MIDI Export: Multiple notes of same pitch at same tick cause on/off messages to overlap

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feature request MIDI
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Description

Your idea

When I export to MIDI, and open the MIDI file in my DAW (Logic Pro), there's always very short notes where there invisible notes exist in the MuseScore score.

File>Export>MIDI>Omit invisible would solve this.

See the discussion, relevant score, and image at .org

Problem to be solved

This would produce a cleaner MIDI export that I can immediately use after import to my DAW.

Prior art

I have not encountered this issue in other notation apps.

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Research direction

Start with File > Export > MIDI and review the linked MuseScore.org discussion and example score. Trace how invisible notes and multiple same-pitch notes are represented during export; done means the exported MIDI no longer contains the unwanted short notes and supports the requested omit-invisible behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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