Old Motifator threads are available in the Archive.
garymf
Total Posts: 71
Joined 04-16-2006 status: Experienced |
I got some MID files from someone in my band but when i Load them in my Motif or in my cmputer, most of the instruments revert to acoustic piano. Aren’t the GM loactions supposed to translate somehow?? He save them as SMF files so not sure what to do. |
sciuriware
Total Posts: 9999
Joined 08-18-2003 status: Guru |
According to your profile you got NO Motif.
I can only advice you to EDIT the Song and find if an unwanted
;JOOP! |
motif8mine
Total Posts: 1743
Joined 10-22-2004 status: Guru |
Saving as an smf Is Not the same as a Standard MIDI File. Simply put, there are a lot ‘rules’ that govern a Standard MIDI File, which include among other things, the presence of the SYSEX messages that put the instrument into ‘GM’ mode and the corresponding Program Messages and how long of a pause should be between the messages, etc… It can be quite a bit of work and it sounds like none of this was done… |
garymf
Total Posts: 71
Joined 04-16-2006 status: Experienced |
Hmmm. So how do you save something so that is has the instrument locations? The crazy thing is now I load the MID file onto my motif, i cahnge the instrumetns by hand, then i save it to a memory card, but when i reload it. it’s all back to acoustic piano!! |
garymf
Total Posts: 71
Joined 04-16-2006 status: Experienced |
Sorry not sure how my profile got erased. I have Motif Classic 6. Not sure how i would find a control message. I never used it for mIDI only played live on it until now. |
John M.
Total Posts: 46
Joined 12-07-2008 status: Regular |
Maybe the following thread is a solution for your problem, although its refers to a Motif XS. http://www.motifator.com/index.php/forum/viewthread/442302/ John |
motif8mine
Total Posts: 1743
Joined 10-22-2004 status: Guru |
FROM MOTIF ARCHIVE: “Changing MIDI Files.”
In the same way that you delete the data, you can also insert it for each voice / track and save it into the MIDI file… Hope this helps… |
garymf
Total Posts: 71
Joined 04-16-2006 status: Experienced |
Thank you. I tried doing what you said above but either I don’t know enough about what I’m doing or ....actually I don’t know what the other reason could be! I go into Edit but I can’t seem to find the event to delete. It just won’t save any of my patch changes. Here is an example file. maybe that would help explain if someone would be kind of enough to look at! :) Thank you! It would be great to be able to use these files to practice with. EDIT: I KEEP TRYING TO ATACH THE *.MID FILE BUT IT WONT’ TAKE NO MATTER WHAT I DO! |