Klarinet Archive - Posting 000288.txt from 2005/02

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Help with MIDI?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:59:48 -0500

I and a friend are exchanging music (music that we wrote ourselves, not
recordings). Since we use different music programs which don't
understand each other, we tried saving our scores as MIDI files and then
attaching the MIDI files to emails.

Neither of us has received anything that even _remotely_ resembles what
the other person sent.

While I'm simplifying the details a bit, because neither of us is
writing a solo, nevertheless I had assumed that MIDI is basically a
universal language. That is, while a clarinet might sound a bit
different on my MIDI player program than it does on some other MIDI
player program, at least it would be recognizable as a clarinet on both
players. But no, the MIDI of a clarinet sounds like piano played
staccato on one MIDI player program, and it sounds like an oboe played
legato on another MIDI player program.

Can someone give me a clue about what's going on?

Thank you

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