Empty midi files

I have the latest pro version of quicktime but just recently when I download .midi files quicktime sees then as movie files and wont open them. Further investigation into "get info" shows the files as being empty. Even my attempts to open them in garage band or cubase have a negative effect..can anyone help?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) G5 2Gb Ram 2Gb

I "hid" my version 6 Player from the version 7 installer on my mini.
Version 6 Pro now runs "on top" of version 7 frameworks but keeps its old menus and features. It even inherits H.264 Video codec.
You really shouldn't attempt a version 6 install on your Tiger OS. Version 7 is required in it and nearly every app uses it.
Buy a cheap external and install 10.3.9 on it (one of my other methods). When I must have the "regular" 6 Pro I boot from that drive.
The only two features I like in version 7 is H.264 and the revamped Movie Properties window. Most of the rest is eye candy.

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I've been given a .mid file from someone I know but I'm not having any success trying to access the file in Logic.
The file should just contain a piano piece he had written.
When I first downloaded the file it automatically opened with QuickTime Player. I closed this then tried various ways of getting it into Logic. Firstly I went to File > Open, and chose the .mid file. This was the result:
"Damaged project or not a Logic Pro project!
"Search for fragments?
"Damaged projects might create problems and crashes!"
'Search' or 'Cancel'
When I click 'Search' I'm told:
"Read error!
"This is not a Logic Pro project!
"No tracks found"
'Continue'
So, is the file empty (no tracks found)?
Or, because it was not created in Logic, it can't be opened in Logic. (I think he is using a PC, not confirmed yet - I also don't know what DAW he's using, yet)
That's ridiculous though, I thought MIDI was a universal language?
I also tried dragging the file straight into a Logic project, which tells me:
"No tracks found"
Can someone please give me a little hand!? Thank you
Message was edited by: JofishSamuel

JofishSamuel wrote:
Okay? Sorry, I have no experience with .mid files as I've never exported or imported them or moved them before... or even highlighted one before!
Two ideas, have your friend check and make sure the mid file plays on his/her system.
and/or
If the mid file checks out good on his/her system have them compress (ZIP) the file and resend as it could have become corrupted during transfer. It can happen.
Your description of the file (zero length) sounds like it missed the last few bytes.
pancenter-

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I was reading the new features of 8 and one that caught my eye was that when you open a a Standard Midi File (smf) it now works like garageband and assigns software instruments to the midi file instead of assigning external midi channels. anyway, Here is what it says in the manual page 633:
Note: As a default behavior, Logic Pro will automatically create software instrument
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So I thought I would give this a try and see how it works. first thing I did was open Logic and started with a new blank project and assigned one audio track to it I used the open file command to open the smf, because if you import it only imports the midi info and not the global info. Logic asked if I wanted to close the current project and I did. The it asked if I wanted to copy the current environment or make a new one, and I chose a new one. The file is a smf type 1 and has 7 instruments all with general midi patch change commands assigned . I also tried this with smf type 0 and got the same results
1st result: Logic created 17 channels in the arrange, 12 instruments and 5 external midi. 4 of the tracks with midi data on them, were assigned to software instruments which corresponded correctly to the programs assigned. 3 of the tracks with midi data were assigned to an external midi device. I did this a few times always with the same results
Next I thought I would try opening a template that I have made with 8 audio, 8 instrument and 16 external midi tracks and using the environment setting in it when I opened the file. I kept the template open also and used the environment setting from it. when the midi file opened, I got a warning that I was out of memory, I clicked OK then it open and arrange window Identical to my template but with no regions in the tracks. I hit play anyway and the song started playing even though there were no regions and there was no spl. it was plying my external synth all channels worked fine. I thought I would check some of the editors and the notes are there in the Piano roll and event windows. It seams my main arrange window is locked though because I cannot select another track in it but if I open the mixer I can.
OK now what happens when you press option when you try to open a midi file?
Well that worked as expected and gave me all external midi devices, but it also gave me 17 midi tracks 7 that were for my smf and 10 that were empty
Anyway I was wondering if anyone one else can try this and let me know what happens

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Drag and Drop Midi file problem

Hi,
I have a simple mid file downloaded from internet that quicktime plays perfectly well, however, when I try to drag and drop it into an empty logic 8 project, all I get is a simple track with virtually no midi info (and no sound whatsoever).
Is there anything I have to do to import a midi file? I know I have to assign instruments and stuff, but this doesn't seem to be correctly added. I have almost never worked with midi files, but I remember Logic (and GarageBand) used to create all the tracks and such.
Any ideas what could I be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Martin.

steve shadforth1 wrote:
Be aware that:
Midi files from the interweb nearly always have volume and pan info at the start before any notes, which will often drive your faders to plus 6, so consider deleting that info before you start.
Yes, I've seen those (tho it took me some time to realize why my faders were at 6 when I pressed play… :S
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Thanks for the Tip!!

Having problem importing midi files.

Hello everyone,
I am having trouble importing midi files in GB. Every time I do all I get is a single insrument, and not the whole midi file as it was when I downloaded it. I tried Dent du midi and cant even get that to work. It looks like it is working, but never seperates the tracks. I would really like to be able to pick apart midi files. Anyone have any ideas. This is my first Apple, but I have been a PC Tech for 8 years now. (I Hate PCs, I love the Mac)

Welcome to the forum. Yes, sometimes these issues occur. Since I am the biggest importer of MIDI files to GB3, I will see what I can do for you.
First, when you wish to import a MIDI, drag the file onto an empty area (ie no tracks) of the GarageBand window. Hold until you see a + sign. Drop, and you should see the tracks appear.
How did you obtain the MIDI file? From the Net? How did you save it? What were the steps?
Do you have Quicktime Pro? Sometimes the way you save a MIDI file will make a difference. You have a choice between "save as movie" or "save as source", and I believe the latter works best.
Has it worked for other MIDI files? Or is one or two giving you issues? Perhaps if you can post a link to the MIDI file, I can have a look at it.

Opening a MIDI file in Logic - a problem

Is there a way to open a MIDI file in Logic without Logic automatically assigning instruments to each track?

Donald:
First of all many thanks to you and other contributors to this thread.
Here's a summary of what I've learned so far:
When you open a MIDI file, all the data concerning meter and tempo are retained.
When you import a MIDI file data concerning meter and tempo are lost.
In the unlikely event that you don't care about retaining meter and tempo data, the simplest thing is to drag the MIDI file into the Arrange page of your template. If this method gave you the option of retaining meter and tempo data, it would accomplish just what we'd all like - - a simple way of moving a MIDI file into a Logic template... I suggest writing to Apple with this suggestion. You can do this by going to the feedback page of the Apple website:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html
If you want to retain meter and tempo data then you can open the MIDI file while holding the option key down. (Thanks Donald!!)
This eliminates the loading of the EXS instruments Logic has decided are appropriate for your MIDI file.
However, when you go to the mixer page, you discover that you cannot create "software instrument" Channel Strips because they are grayed-out on the channel strip menu.
To fix this, you need to import the Mixer layer of the Logic template you've created for whatever virtual instrument plugins you intend to use. (In my case the multi channel Vienna Ensemble (VE) plugin and Kontakt. You do this by looking under the "import Environment" selection in the Options menu of the current environment.
You then import the Mixer level of the Environment of your Logic template. (This template should have a multichannel channel MIDI instruments wired to Audio Instruments.)
This will give you two mixer levels in the environment - - and the imported one will lack some important elements such as Output 1-2, Master, Click and PreListen.
To move these to new Mixer page select them all, hold down the option key and switch to new Mixer page. They will move to the new mixer page. Return to the now empty original Mixer page and use the "delete layer" command available under the flip menu on the upper left corner of the window.
Then you can reassign the tracks in the arrange page to the appropriate channels. (e.g VE 1 1, VE 1-2, etc.) However, the assignment menu does look a litle funky, since, in my experience, there are two VE 1-1s, VE1-2s etc.
The advantage of using multi-channel virtual instrument which works as both plugin and standalone is that you can create a pre-existing template with all your instruments loaded in it and save it. Thus if you were working with a VE Standalone as the playback device for Finale or Sibelius and you save it, you can, after instantiating VE as a software instrument in Logic, open it and it will have all your settings.
There are other alternatives - - you can open the Logic template you've made for working with multi-channel virtual instrument plugins and then - - without closing the template - - open the MIDI file. This will result in a dialog box asking if you want a new Environment or to copy the Environment of the file that is already open. If you do this you will get a result similar to what I've described above, but it will be a little weird in wholly different ways - - which you can clean up to a greater or lesser extent.
If only things were more simple: Ars Longa, Vita Brevis, I guess.
Again I suggest writing to Apple about this on their online feedback page. If enough people do this, things might be improved in this regard.

Trouble importing midi files

please excuse this intrusion.
you are probably all more experienced with this topic than the GB users
I cannot get midi files that were created and exported from Cubase SL 1.04 3-5 years ago and initially worked in Garageband 2 to import.
They will work with dent du midi but will not drag successfully into the GB interfase. These did come in weeks ago. I believe it might have something to do with QT 7.02
I dont know. could it? I have checked everything. The files do not import. New files off the internet do import. i thought a midi file was a midi file was a midi file
thanks

Welcome to the forum. Yes, sometimes these issues occur. Since I am the biggest importer of MIDI files to GB3, I will see what I can do for you.
First, when you wish to import a MIDI, drag the file onto an empty area (ie no tracks) of the GarageBand window. Hold until you see a + sign. Drop, and you should see the tracks appear.
How did you obtain the MIDI file? From the Net? How did you save it? What were the steps?
Do you have Quicktime Pro? Sometimes the way you save a MIDI file will make a difference. You have a choice between "save as movie" or "save as source", and I believe the latter works best.
Has it worked for other MIDI files? Or is one or two giving you issues? Perhaps if you can post a link to the MIDI file, I can have a look at it.

MIDI files - opening vs importing and using templates

I think I'm out of luck on this one, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway. I spent all morning building a new template with 50+ buses for internal recording of audio (Thank You APPLE!).
I would like to be able to open MIDI files using that template. If I import, only the regions are imported not the tempo map, markers etc. If I open, then I can't have it use my template because it opens in an empty file.
I've gone into the global preferences and assigned my template as the default template and still no love. Any thoughts?

I can import the environment but all of the routing is gone. I've got like 50 buses or something and all of my tracks in the arrange are gone as well. No way to import those I imagine. It'll take me only like 10-15 mins to load them all up again, but still thats 1-150 mins each time. Thats why I built a template to begin with, to avoid routing stuff and inserting tracks over and over.
We need an update on this one stat

Importing midi file from Sibelius

Hello
I've been trying to import a score I composed in Sibelius 6 into Logic Pro X. What happens is I have no control over the panning or volume; everything reverts back to it's original position after setting the pan and volume. I had everything panned to center and volume equal on all tracks before I exported the midi file from Sibelius. When I first tried this, the dynamic markings in the score moved the faders up and down. I removed them, but still have the same problem. Any ideas?
Thank you
Michael

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Transform can be used to simply have a complex selection criteria, without actually modifying the data.
With your region selected, in the transform window specify your selection criteria, for example "All NOTES with a velocity of 45 or less", and hit the "Select Only". This will select all notes in that region that make your criteria. Then use the cut/paste functions to move them to a new region.
If you are unsure how the transform window works and need some more help, post back.

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Hi
Since reloading XP and QT 7.5 Pro, I have a problem I did not have before. In Explorer, my .mid midi files are associated with my preferred Karaoke player.
However, when I click on a .mid link on a web page in IE6, it uses the QT plugin to play it, rather than my preferred player. I have check my QT preferences file types, and midi files are definately NOT associated.
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Message was edited by: alan_dr

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I used this method to store the song but it does not seem to be working.
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onnector.open("http://www.ziyaaf.com/XML/girl.mid
connection = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(
" http://www.ziyaaf.com/XML/girl.mid");
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And never ever use fixed size byte arrays!
And why load the midi file in memory when you can play it directly from stream (specially if you read from file)?

Empty Log File - log settings will not save

Description of Problem or Question:
Cannot get logging to work in folder D:\Program Files\Business Objects\Dashboard and Analytics 12.0\server\log
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Product\Version\Service Pack\Fixpack (if applicable):
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Database Oracle 10g
Client : Vista
Sporadic or Consistent (if applicable):
Consistent
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Open ->Dashboard and Analytics Setp -> Parameters -> Trace
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Feedback
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Feedback via Apple Developer
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Quit the application.
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