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Tips on porting songs that are in swing tempo?

Are there any tips or tricks to porting songs that are in swing tempo? Constantly changing lengths of notes just seems annoying to me.
I assume that you are trying to take a MIDI and transcribe it to MML when you say "Constantly changing lengths of notes".

Here's the way I think of note lengths for standard rhythms and swing-based rhythms:

A standard rhythm takes notes shorter than a quarter note, and cuts them in half.
► So, c4 split into two notes would be c8c8.

For swing-based rhythms, the line is cut two-thirds through the note.
► So, c4 split into two notes would be c6c12. (a triplet of sorts)
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