Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5 -ACID Product Family

Subject:Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5 Posted by: Skee Date:3/15/2005 10:41:55 AM Does anyone know of a way to open a complete midi song in Acid Pro so that each midi track opens on its own separate track. Currently when I open a midi song the entire song opens on one track. This makes it very hard to edit the individual midi tracks.
Subject:RE: Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5 Reply by: Illogical Date:3/15/2005 11:03:15 AM Hi, I could be wrong, but I don't think Acid can do that, I've tried in the past, and what I resorted to doing is inserting an extra midi track for each extra channel in the midi file, then going into piano roll and copying the note data from channel 2 to my second midi track (on channel 1), third channel to third midi track, etc... Tedious, I know....if there is a more elegant solution, I'm happy to hear it. You might be able to copy data from the list editor (next to the piano roll), not sure, I just thought of that as an option, but I'm not at a computer when I can try it. Either way, as far as I know, Acid doesn't deal well with multi-channel MIDI tracks.
Subject:RE: Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5 Reply by: Skee Date:3/15/2005 11:27:21 AM I was afraid that would be the answer. I was hoping there was a better way that wasn't so time consumming. Thanks!
Subject:RE: Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5 Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:3/15/2005 2:45:01 PM > if there is a more elegant solution, I'm happy to hear it. Yep, use StolenTrack by GenieSys. You still have to insert the new MIDI tracks but StolenTrack makes it very easy to "steal" the MIDI data from the original track into the new ones. It’s a OPT plug-in to ACID. ~jr

Subject:Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5

Posted by: Skee

Date:3/15/2005 10:41:55 AM

Does anyone know of a way to open a complete midi song in Acid Pro so that each midi track opens on its own separate track. Currently when I open a midi song the entire song opens on one track. This makes it very hard to edit the individual midi tracks.

Subject:RE: Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5

Reply by: Illogical

Date:3/15/2005 11:03:15 AM

Hi, I could be wrong, but I don't think Acid can do that, I've tried in the past, and what I resorted to doing is inserting an extra midi track for each extra channel in the midi file, then going into piano roll and copying the note data from channel 2 to my second midi track (on channel 1), third channel to third midi track, etc...

Tedious, I know....if there is a more elegant solution, I'm happy to hear it. You might be able to copy data from the list editor (next to the piano roll), not sure, I just thought of that as an option, but I'm not at a computer when I can try it. Either way, as far as I know, Acid doesn't deal well with multi-channel MIDI tracks.

Subject:RE: Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5

Reply by: Skee

Date:3/15/2005 11:27:21 AM

I was afraid that would be the answer. I was hoping there was a better way that wasn't so time consumming. Thanks!

Subject:RE: Opening Midi Files in Acid Pro 5

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:3/15/2005 2:45:01 PM

> if there is a more elegant solution, I'm happy to hear it.

Yep, use StolenTrack by GenieSys. You still have to insert the new MIDI tracks but StolenTrack makes it very easy to "steal" the MIDI data from the original track into the new ones. It’s a OPT plug-in to ACID.

~jr