Can I use external MIDI file in Music Maker?

kramp wrote on 8/4/2019, 10:45 AM

Hi, I recently tried to get an MIDI file with "Soundpool" from outside and use it through Music Maker. But the external "Soundpool" works normally, but the MIDI file doesn't show that I did anything wrong. So I wondered if I could use external MIDI files in Music Maker. If you can use it, how can you operate it normally? I need your help.

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johnebaker wrote on 8/4/2019, 12:25 PM

@kramp

Assuming you mean you want to add a MIDI file from another source to the timeline you can drag and drop it onto the timeline from with the Music Maker File Manager or from Windows File Explorer.

Note: an external MIDI file may contain more than 1 channel of data/instruments (max 16) - if there is more than one channel used then they will all appear on the one track. If you want to separate the individual channels/instruments for editing or assigning different instruments then using the MIDI Editor you need to determine which channels actually have notes and then separate them out.

The easiest way is to add the MIDI file to multiple tracks, you need to do this for the number of channels used, and on each one use the MIDI Editor, Options - MIDI Channel filter and Hide filtered data to hide all unwanted channels.

You will then have something like this and you can assign instruments to each track.

HTH

John EB