This screen controls the export of the currently loaded Musical Discovery tune, onto an external MIDI file, for use with other MIDI software, such as a music-printing program. There is a Playbar at the foot of the screen, with which you can control the playing of the currently loaded tune.
If you open this screen without having previously loaded a Musical Discovery tune into memory, a message to this effect will appear. You may load a tune by clicking the Load New button at the right end of the Playbar at the foot of the screen, or by hitting the F4 function key, or from the MENU File -> Load Musical Discovery File.
To export this tune, click the blue button Export to MIDI file. A standard Windows file and directory dialogue box will appear. Change the directory if required, type in a file name for your output MIDI file if you wish this to be different from the File name stored already inside Musical Discovery. Then hit the Save button. The export process will commence. You will see the MIDI data displayed on the screen as it is processed. This may take a fair amount of time for long tunes, or on slower computers.
When finished, a large green button will appear at the top of the screen Play the new MIDI file You can test if the MIDI file has been successfully created by clicking this button. Its colour will change to red Stop playing this MIDI file so you can stop the tune with this same button.
There is a check box labelled Suppress detailed display at the top of the screen. If you tick this, the MIDI data will not be displayed on the screen as the tune is being exported, thereby speeding up the export process.