Exporting files for web-based SmartMusic®

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Using Finale files in web-based SmartMusic

SmartMusic is a web-based music instruction platform that connects teachers and students. Teachers take access to an unrivaled library of music from which to create individualized assignments for every student. Students receive immediate feedback equally they do each assignment. Their best performances are sent back to the teacher for grading and boosted guidance. Plus, built-in notation tools allow teachers to import, edit, and create music, producing custom content for their students.

You can create your ain SmartMusic assessment files past saving any Finale Note file, or files from various third-political party annotation programs, as a MIDI, MXL, XML, or MusicXML file. If you have existing classic SmartMusic files (SMPX files), y'all tin learn how to catechumen these to files for use with web-based SmartMusic (SMZ files) with Finale in the adjacent lesson.

In this lesson y'all'll larn how to:

  1. Export MIDI files
  2. Adjust preferences to export MXL, XML, or MusicXML files

Exporting MIDI files

MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface, is the calculator language that computers and MIDI instruments use to speak to each other. MIDI files can also be used to import your Finale files to spider web-based SmartMusic.

  1. Ready your Finale Note file. To consign a specific region, in the Playback Controls, select Observe Playback Region when saving to MIDI or audio file and specify the region you lot would similar to consign and other of import playback options.
  2. Make certain that you take assigned instruments correctly (one for each resultant sequencer track).

    When Finale creates a MIDI sequencer file, it places the music assigned to each instrument in the ScoreManager in a carve up sequencer track. Therefore, make sure the instrument configuration is set up upwardly the same way you lot want the resultant tracks set. See MIDI channels for further instructions.

  3. Choose File > Export > MIDI File. The Relieve MIDI File dialog box appears.
  4. Enter a championship in the text box.
  5. Click Salvage (or press Render).
  6. Select a MIDI file format by clicking the appropriate button.
    • Select Format 1 for multiple tracks. This is by far the almost common format.
    • Select Format 0 for a single multichannel rails.
    • Select Tempo map to export a separate tempo map file which certain avant-garde sequencer programs can import to read the ritardandi, accelerandi, and other tempo fluctuations in your certificate.

    Besides, choose whether you want to salve any ClosedbookmarksA particular position on the Page (Page View), or a measure (Scroll View) that can be saved and recalled. yous created in Finale every bit sequencer marks in your MIDI file.

  7. Click OK. You can at present open SmartMusic and import the MIDI file y'all've just saved.

Adjusting preferences to consign MXL, XML, or MusicXML files

A MusicXML file is a standard open up format for exchanging digital canvass music. MusicXML provides a solution for tasks such as publishing interactive musical scores on the Internet and collaborating with other musicians who use dissimilar music applications. An MXL file is a compressed MusicXML file, and an XML file is an older, uncompressed MusicXML file. Many third party notation software programs take the ability to consign MXL, XML, and MusicXML files. See Finale file extensions and icons.

  1. Open your Finale file.
  2. Cull File > Export > MusicXML Preference. The MusicXML Preference dialog box appears.
  3. Under the Interpret Folder to MusicXML section, select either Export compressed (.mxl) or Export uncompressed (.musicxml).
  4. Click OK to go out the dialog box.
  5. Choose File > Consign > Linked Parts to MusicXML, MusicXML, or Translate Folder to MusicXML.
    • Select Linked Parts to MusicXML if you would like each linked role in your document to be exported every bit an individual MXL, XML, or MusicXML certificate. An Open up dialog box appears. Select a location or create a new folder for the exported linked parts and click Open.
    • Select MusicXML to create a single MXL, XML, or MusicXML file of the currently opened score or part. A Save dialog box appears. Select a MusicXML Format and click Save.
    • Select Translate Folder to MusicXML to select a folder of Finale Notation files and batch convert them to MusicXML files. An Open dialog box appears. Select a folder of existing Finale files and click Open.
  6. The MusicXML files announced in your selected destination. You tin now open up SmartMusic and import the MusicXML files you've just saved.

If you have used archetype SmartMusic in the past and would like to upload your previously made SMP and SMPX files to spider web-based SmartMusic, click Next.

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