Hi tempuser. I agree with Ed.

One thing you said makes me curious. You stated that "there are MIDI files which contain [chord] symbols." Chord symbols are not part of the MIDI standard. Do you have an example of such a file?

Sometimes a particular software vendor makes proprietary files that contain chord info with MIDI. PG Music does; you can transfer a BIAB file to Real Band, both PG Music products, and preserve the chord information. But XML is the only way I know to export chord info to any other program by another vendor.


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