Hi there,
I am trying to bring in a miditrack into my projekt. It is a format 1 miditrack, that contains different midi tracks from another daw.
I can double tab on the file in the media browser, nothing happens. I can drag and drop ist to a midi track (which in the end makes no sense), when I release the file it does not move into the track.
What am I doing wrong here?
Cheers Felix
Hi @Phaeliks,
Thanks for your message and a warm welcome to the forum.
It would be great if you could share the MIDI file with me to allow us further evaluating the problem.
To do so, please have a look at the private message I’ve sent you, to exchange via eMail.
Thanks
Lars
Hi I have exactly the same problem with midi files and cubasis as phaeliks.
The midi file I tried to import works on all other music apps I have, bandlab, Midi Voyager etc. but won’t work on cubasis.
I can only assume there is something in the file not compatible with cubasis.
Kind regards
Ray
Have you tried dragging and dropping it in and letting it create its own track? Most imports are that easy. Cubasis is smart that way.
Hi Johne1, many thanks for your reply.
I’ve tried every way to get cubasis to accept this midi file, including drag and drop.
I did eventually get it into cubasis with a long winded route.
I have 2 other apps that import and export midi files, FL studio and MIDI Voyager. FL studio would not accept the file but more helpfully than cubasis came up with a message that the file could not be opened.
MIDI Voyager, however did load it.
So I exported again from voyager and although cubasis still wouldn’t load it FL studio would.
I then exported from FL studio and this time got it into cubasis. It wasn’t a total success though because cubasis imported all 5 tracks as Grand Piano not their MIDI instruments.
I can only conclude that there was something in the original file not compatible with cubasis.
Hi @garmonce,
Please share the MIDI file with me, and we give it a try to import it with Cubasis.
Best,
Lars
Hi
Many thanks for your reply.
I’ve attached the midi file to this email that I had problems with in cubasis.
It might help if you know that it was created with iReal Pro an app for musicians to practice playing along with a backing track. My reason for wanting to import it to cubasis was to use it’s much better virtual instruments and effects.
Regards Ray
America.mid (36.8 KB)
Interesting problem. I downloaded your file and saved it in Cubasis in the My Midi folder. As you said, drag and drop into Cubasis rendered nothing. I did notice that my other MIDI files in the folder were all about 10 times larger than your America.mid file. Here’s where it got interesting. I imported it into AudioShare app, where it imported just fine first time and it played without any fuss. It sounded like you used a Mellow EP, like.a Fender Rhodes or even mellower. Is that correct or did AudioShare just pick that instrument for its own playback?
This problem has me very interested but… I’m putting it on hold due to Game 2 of the World Series about to start. My next steps are:
I imagine the people Lars turned your file over to are probably doing something very similar to my plan.
John
Many thanks for your reply.
I am using cubasis on the android platform and don’t have audio share.
So all midi files are imported according to general midi and instruments assigned in that way.
This is not the first time I’ve encountered this problem with midi files from other daws not being accepted by Steinberg programs, cubase, dorico as well as cubasis. I will be interested to find out the cause.
Kind regards and enjoy the game.
This is how “America.mid” opened in GarageBand.
Is the multitrack image below somewhat accurate?
Your exact Midi instruments may differ.
If so, export each track to its own MIDI file and those should drag and drop correctly into Cubasis.
Many thanks for this.
The multitrack image is nearly right.
The track labelled as harmony was a percussive organ on the original but I guess garageband found the nearest it could.
I have garageband at home but I’m away at the moment so will try your method when I get back.
I recommend you export the individual tracks from whatever app you created them in. Cubasis is apparently expecting a single MIDI track, not a multi-track MIDI file.
As you see in my screenshot, the guitar track came in as a Piano track. I copied your Clean Guitar (Piano) track, created a new Clean Guitar track, selected the new track and GB would not even offer the Paste command. Apparently, there’s some connection between MIDI channels and MIDI instruments, although I don’t understand what difference it makes. Dan Baker on YT says that Drums must be on channel 10 To Export as Drums. Who knows if Clean Guitar, or any guitar, require a certain MIDI channel to export correctly? I don’t understand why it should make any difference, but I’m passing on the info, in case it’s important.
I forgot to mention how I got your file into GarageBand on my iPad.
Hope that helps you replicate what I did.
Many thanks, I’ll give it a try
Hi @Johne1,
Our engineering gave the MIDI file check and were able to fix the import issue.
The fix will be included in the next Cubasis update.
Best,
Lars
I joined Midi.org to get the MIDI spec from the people who created it. There’s not a single spec, but multiple documents outlining various ways of implementing MIDI, including: MIDI File formats, MIDI transports, even Lyrics and much more. And that’s just MIDI 1. MIDI 2 has added a lot more to the Spec, while maintaining MIDI 1 backward compatibility.
Seeing that, it’s easy to understand why different companies could have such varied tools to parse a MIDI file. I now have a much greater appreciation for the work that goes into the code that writes and reads MIDI files.
As end-users, we expect MIDI files to work in all MIDI devices, DAWs, MIDI apps, etc. It’s clearly not that simple.
@garmonce Good news! I have the process down and have successfully saved each of your MIDI tracks to a separate .mid file to drag and drop into Cubasis. Heck, I’ll do that too and send you the Cubasis project loaded with your tracks and the individual MIDI tracks as .mid files.
What BPM were those MIDI tracks originally recorded at? They imported at 125 BPM. Is that correct? I need to extract all your MIDI tracks again so that the new tracks are created at the correct BPM. Then, you’ll be all set!
Give me that info and I’ll have your files back to you tomorrow (or maybe tonight). It’s election day, so we have to take time to vote in the next few hours.
John
@Johne1, once again thank you for all your efforts. 125 BPM is correct.
Kind regards,
Ray.
Well, Ray, I ran your 1st track through Cubasis. The default MIDI piano didn’t do it justice. Then I set the MIDI instrument to Micrologue->Factory Presets=>Brite Mystic Strings, and WOW! Did that ever sound good. Brite Octave Strings was good, too. I tried a bunch of MIDI instruments in Cubasis and kept coming back to the Brite Mystic Strings. The track has some rhythm issues that completely disappear when it’s played through Brite Mystic Strings, it just sounds awesome.
Now I’ve got the correct BPM from you, I’ll get back to extracting all the tracks minus the click track. If I don’t fall asleep you’ll have it by morning.
John
