Importing time signatures from MIDI.

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Noumenon
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Importing time signatures from MIDI.

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So far I've only managed to import the tempos, but I still have to add the times signatures myself. How do I work around this?
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Post by Mr_Clifford »

Time signatures should come in with the MIDI file. What was the MIDI file created on?
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Guitar Pro 5.
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Make sure it is exported by your guitar Pro and it is not filtered in DP's input filter
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What I'm doing is opening the MIDI file with DP, not importing it or dropping it somewhere. Just File - Open :)
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but can you confirm that that the bar change are exported in youir file. Can you monitor them in another program just to see. You can send one to me I could check for you. I'll PM you my Email
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Post by Noumenon »

The MIDI file is here: Trinity

Hm. Apparently GP5 for Mac doesn't export the time signatures, and GP5 for PC doesn't export tempo changes. lol.
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