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garymf
Total Posts: 71
Joined 04-16-2006 status: Experienced |
A guy I know made me a sequence on his Roland Juno. I only have yamaha stuff (motif 6 etc.) and from what I read online, only Rolands can read that format (SVQ). I don’t know if he’ll be able to convert it for me. Anyone know 1) if there is a way I could convert this file to MIDI or 2) anyone with a roland willing to do it for me? (Please?) My goal is to read the file and see the parts he created so i can recreate them live. It’s a song by the Time (Prince). And maybe a dumb question but assuming I get it as midi, what program would I use to “see” the parts (e.g. as notation)? I’m sorry if I sound naive but I focus on live playing and don’t use my computer to sequence (i’ve only done it a bit on the board itself). Thank you! |
meatballfulton
Total Posts: 3022
Joined 01-25-2005 status: Guru |
Contact the guy and ask him to save it again as a SMF Format 1. The Juno-G can do this. |
garymf
Total Posts: 71
Joined 04-16-2006 status: Experienced |
Just thought I’d share with y’all that I found a solution. 1. I used this program (free trial to start) to convert the SVQ to MIDI. http://www.fmjsoft.com/awavestudio.html
2. Then I used this to view the notation:
It took a little jiggering...... (hint: say “not” to convert to LH and RH otherwise it mixes tracks). It also interpreted all the tracks as Piano. I had to go in and figure out what was drums, and other instruments etc but I kinda knew the parts already so that helped. The only weird thing is that the tempo seems off and I can’t change it in the free trial of the notation software, but I just wanted to see the parts not actually use the MIDI sequence. QUESTION: Is it normal for the instrumetns to get converted all to acoustic piano? I remember doing this years ago with a ringtone and it lost the instruments. I only used the SVQ file; there might have been another file too (SVA?). Anyway I’m happy with my results! |