DanDK

Thank you very much for this video! Thanks to your detailed explanations about tempos I am able to troubleshoot conversions to the MS2 format much more easily. Though I still think it'd be nice if you'd extract the core points directly to your guide in text format so people don't have to look through the entire video to find the important points. For example, the whole example code you go through meticulously in the video, just provide a quick TL;DR by pasting the before/after code snippet and people already familiar with MML syntax will get the idea. For example, knowing to tie together notes with "&" was all I needed in order to understand how to deal with notes instead of rests. Everything else can be summed up as "remember to correct the tempos in every track". Loved your Snippet Tool trick to keep track of what needed to be done though. When editing a sample track following your example, I encountered two further difficulties you might want to also discuss: First off, due to the default length setting "l" (lowercase "L") a note doesn't always default to length one, so if the default length has been changed, be wary when you "split" note length numbers. Secondly, I discovered that there is a shortcut prefix "n" that enters a predefined note but without the option to customize its length, which means that if you need to "split" this note, you'll have to convert it to the correct note in context (without messing up the context). Either that, or there is some way to combine "n" with note length which I didn't discover. Finally, it would be very nice if you went through a bit more of the Import Menu options, as they seem to not be documented anywhere at all (I haven't been able to find any information and have had to guess every time). For example, you enable all the left menu options by default without explaining what they do (except Velocity, so thanks for that one), and I know that the stuff that adds Extension/Hold to notes gets deleted when you Optimize Tracks, which you did in the end, without explaining any of it (I don't have any clue how exactly it works either, but I assume it reads metadata from the .midi file somehow, but no idea where it stores it afterwards. I would also like to know more about how the Extension module even works related to MS2, and what that channel setting means, for instance. In the end, I bypassed the use of the Extension module by ticking the Reduce Rest box that you told never to tick, except that the written description matched exactly what I wanted to do for the import I needed and it fixed the issue with the melody cutting off. So also be wary what you tell users, usually all options are there for a reason. But you did manage to teach me a lot more and help me with some of my import issues so thanks for that and keep up the good work.