Advantages of MIDI

Although MusicXML has obvious advantages in the representation of musical scores, there are also restrictions in sound. This is due to the fact that MusicXML as a music notation format has a graphical background and is designed for exchanging representation, not sound.

When playing back MusicXML files in Cubase, the following parameters, among others, are not considered:

• On and Off velocities

• Dynamics

• Controller data

• SysEx

• Standard MIDI file meta events

• Audio

• All Cubase-specific data like automation, MIDI effects, Input Transformer, etc.