loading existing .mid files?

travisbrown · Post by **travisbrown** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:47 pm

Umm.. how come I can't seem to load a .mid file in DP5? Can't drag and drop, can't load from any menus... doesn't matter if it is an existing session or not.

What's the trick?

Grigri · Post by **Grigri** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:17 pm

Hello.
Try to drag the .mid file in the chunk window, that should work.

Grigri

travisbrown · Post by **travisbrown** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:36 pm

Tried that. Nothing. File just springs back into the finder window. This is crazy. Tried it with a few different .mid files.

waxman · Post by **waxman** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:56 pm

select info on file... to do that select file and hit "apple I"

In the dialog open with change to...
open iwith DP...

double click on icon and it will open in a DP file...

then save the file before you start to work on it...

agillesp · Post by **agillesp** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:24 pm

I just had the same thing earlier today. What worked for me was making sure there were enough adjacent MIDI tracks in the tracks window... once there were, I was able to drag the .mid directly into the tracks window.

Hope that helps,

Art

toodamnhip · Post by **toodamnhip** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:28 pm

agillesp wrote:I just had the same thing earlier today. What worked for me was making sure there were enough adjacent MIDI tracks in the tracks window... once there were, I was able to drag the .mid directly into the tracks window.

Hope that helps,

Art

what is a .mid file?

travisbrown · Post by **travisbrown** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:46 pm

Toodamnhip: .mid is a MIDI data file. Could be a song or other tune of MIDI sequence.

travisbrown · Post by **travisbrown** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:49 pm

Waxman, that doesn't work. DP starts up, but doesn't load the file. Doesn't err out, just starts DP. I'd already tried this by ctrl clicking and opening with DP. Neither method works.

I know the .mid is okay; I can open with every other MIDI app. Tried other .mid files too.

travisbrown · Post by **travisbrown** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:51 pm

By all rights I should be able to just drag the file to the tracks window and create a new track.

waxman · Post by **waxman** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:50 pm

I don't know why that is not working on your set up. I just did it and it works fine...

dragging works if you have enough MIDI tracks

travisbrown · Post by **travisbrown** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:18 am

I dunno. I can't get any MIDI file loaded any way. Same in DP 4.6. It's a single part MIDI file. I think all I'd need is one track; but I even tried it with a new 32 track session.

I can load it in Sibelius fine.

Grigri · Post by **Grigri** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:27 am

Travisbrown.
I've send you my email addresse (PM) , check your message.
Can you send me one of this MIDI files so I can try on my system?
Grigri

Matcher · Post by **Matcher** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:00 am

You might try renaming it to .MIDI

doodles · Post by **doodles** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:05 am

have you tried loading it into a chunk, rather than dragging it - this might show if there's something wrong with the file??

buzzsmith · Post by **buzzsmith** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:02 am

Travis:

With DP running, no project open, have you tried the "Open" command to see if you can just open the MIDI file as opposed to importing it?

If successful, you'll be presented a window, where you have to reassign the different channels to match your set-up.

Just a quick thought!

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