Re: [Qtractor-devel] MIDI file import: Off-by-one for default track?

[Ralf M. <ral...@al...>]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 00:29 +0200, Frank Neumann wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> today I have played a little with the cooperation of Qtractor and the
> (by now pretty impressive) MuseScore notation software from Werner Schweer
> (see http://www.musescore.org).
> 
> In MuseScore, I created a small score with 4 voices, filled some staffs with
> notes, exported my "work" to a standard MIDI file and imported that into
> Qtractor with Clip->Import.
> 
> What I noticed was that the default track that gets imported automatically
> is not track #0, but #1 - which sounds like a little off-by-one error.
> Nothing dramatic, since Qtractor offers a dialog to see all tracks and
> import (drag&drop) them into Qtractor tracks individually, but unless this
> behaviour is intended for some uber-procrastinator reasons ;-), it should
> perhaps be fixed. Like, does track#0 have a "reserved" meaning in, say,
> "commercial" MIDI files?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank

A stupid question, pardon: Did you ensure, that it's a bug by Qtractor,
but MuseScore version 0.x?

I didn't test it here, with latest version of Qtractor, but a long time
ago I did import and export MIDI files without getting issues.

Cheers!

Ralf