ionian wroteNo matter what I name the track, it insists on making it one staff and not a grand piano staff. I can't seem to make a single staff into a grand piano staff without having it split the notes between the staves - it insists on making one staff with all the music and the bass staff empty.
If you have the current versions of Studio One 3 Professional and NOTION 6, then It's easy to do on the Mac in a few simple steps . . . THOUGHTSI don't have the Accordion instrument in NOTION 6, but Studio One 3 Professional has a set of Accordion instruments (
as you know) . . .
For reference, my primary Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) application is Digital Performer (MOTU); but I use Studio One 3 Professional for editing MIDI that I use for Realivox Blue (Realitone), since (a) Studio One 3 Professional has an excellent MIDI Editor and (b) I can transfer from NOTION 6 to Studio One 3 Professional and vice-versa very easily without needing to disable ReWire . . .
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NOTE: I do everything on the Mac; and this is the way it works on the Mac. I have no way to verify how it works in the Windows universe; so if you are doing this on a Windows machine, then you might need to disable ReWire in NOTION 6. Regardless, you need to enable the "Allow Network Discovery" option in NOTION 6 Preferences. As noted, I also keep ReWire enabled in NOTION 6 Preferences. The key to doing the transfers back-and-forth is to start NOTION 6 first. Then start Studio One 3 Professional. This makes NOTION 6 the ReWire host controller; and it prevents Studio One 3 Professional from participating in the ReWire session, because Studio One 3 Professional does not support running as a ReWire slave . . . ]
It took me about 45 minutes to discover how to do what you want to do, where about 30 minutes was focused on how to get MIDI data into Studio One 3 Professional via a ".MID" file; since this is not something I do very often and basically I zoned-out and forgot how to do it . . .
I was pondering the idea of reading the Studio One 3 Professional User Guide; but (a) that's a lot of work and (b) I'm lazy . . .
So, I found a ".MID" file on the Mac Pro here in the sound isolation and did some experiments . . .
(1) In a new Studio One 3 Professional project, I created an Accordion 8+8 instrument via the "Type" view in the Instrument Browser, noting that at the moment I have no idea what "8+8" indicates in the Accordion world, but so what . . .
(2) I dragged and dropped the ".MID" file onto the newly created Accordion 8+8 instrument lane; and the MIDI notes appeared; but they were all treble clef, since the notes ranged from C3 to C4, more or less . . .
(3) Then I selected all the notes in the Studio One 3 Professional MIDI Editor and pasted them into the same MIDI lane, followed by dragging the newly pasted notes downward by two octaves. This created bass notes; and the "copy-paste-drag" technique is what I use to create harmony parts for a Realivox Blue melody. It works the same way in Melodyne (Celemony), but with DNA blobs. Very nice!
(4) Now I had a bunch of MIDI notes for the Accordion 8+8 instrument in Studio One 3 Professional; and there were bass-clef range notes and treble-clef range notes . . .
(5) I tried to send the notes to NOTION 6 from Studio One 3 Professional--probably doing exactly what you have been doing--and I got the same results. It did not appear to be working with respect to splitting the notes correctly to a Grand Staff, no matter what I tried . . .
(6) Then I had an epiphany, which is the way it works here in the sound isolation studio . . .
(7) The epiphany is that in NOTION 6 I was looking at sequencer staves rather than music notation . . .
(8) So i did a few more experiments and quickly found the solution . . .
SOLUTION[
IMPORTANT: Start NOTION 6 first. Then start Studio One 3 Professional . . . ]
(1) Send the Accordion 8+8 MIDI to NOTION 6, where it will appear on a correctly named staff in sequencer (or "piano roll") form . . .
(2) Do
not do anything at this point except switch NOTION 6 to Score Setup mode . . .
(3) In NOTION 6 Score Setup mode, change the Accordion 8+8 staff to a Grand Staff . . .
(4) Exit NOTION 6 Score Setup mode . . .
(5) The Accordion 8+8 staff now will be a Grand Staff and all the notes will be shown in sequencer (or "piano roll") form . . .
(6) Click on the "Convert to Notation" menu item on the "Tools" menu, and the sequencer (or "piano roll") format notes will convert to music notation and will be split correct on the Grand Staff . . .
VISUAL STEPS[
NOTE: I used a different Studio One 3 Professional Accordion, since it looked more complex and I wanted to try it on several of the Accordions . . . ]
MIDI Data in Studio Onn 3 ProfessionalOption for Send To NOTION StepAFTER Send from Studio One 3 Professional to NOTION 6AFTER Change Staff to Grand Staff in NOTION 6 Score SetupAFTER Convert to Notation in NOTION 6SUMMARYStudio One 3 Professional and NOTION 6 do a
lot more than is documented in the User Guides . . .
If everything were documented in extraordinary detail, then it would fill a large library and take a group of scribes at least a decade to document, by which time it would be wrong, since it would apply to a version from 10 years ago . . .
This forum is an excellent source for information on how to do stuff that appears to be difficult or impossible to do . . .
If it actually is impossible to do, then someone probably will devise a workaround . . .
Lots of FUN! P. S. I did this in Studio One 3.5.2 Professional and NOTION 6.3.454 on the MacPro running Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) here in the sound isolation studio . . .
Once I discovered how to do it, I did it starting with blank projects several times . . .
It works, and once you do it a few times, it takes just a few minutes and some easy steps, which is fabulous . . .
Fabulous!