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Chapter 9: Saving and Loading From Disk

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To load a MIDI file, the disk must be a Windows 720K disk. The file must

have a standard DOS eight character file name and a three-character file

name extension of either “.MID”, “.MFF” or “.SMF”.

From the “Convert To/From MIDI File” screen, select the MIDI file to be

converted and press <Load>. The following screen will appear:

============ Load MIDI File ============

Make drum tracks from MIDI channel:10

Arrange tracks:AS IN FILE (NORMAL)

========================================

<Do it>

To load the MIDI file into memory, set the fields as necessary and press

<Do it>. The two fields are:

The MAKE DRUM TRACKS FROM MIDI CHANNEL field:

Tracks in MIDI files do not have a TYPE assignment (DRUM or MIDI).

So when loading a MIDI file, the MPC60 doesn’t know whether to assign

any of the newly created tracks to DRUM in the Main Screen’s TYPE

field. If you know which MIDI channel is used in the MIDI file for drum

notes, enter that number in this field. When loaded, any tracks created

from events assigned to this channel number will be given a Type

assignment of DRUM. Normally, MIDI files use channel 10 for drum

notes, so it is usually best to enter 10 here

. If you don’t want any tracks

to be assigned to DRUM, enter NONE here.

The ARRANGE TRACKS field:

This field only appears if a type 1 MIDI file has been selected for loading.

It has two options:

AS IN FILE (NORMAL)

If this option is selected, the newly created sequence will have

the same track numbering arrangement as in the file. Track 1 will

map to track 1, track 2 to track 2, 3 to 3, etc. This is the normal

setting.

ONE PER MIDI OUTPUT

If this option is selected, one track is created for each

channel/port assignment in use within the MIDI file, and all

events are mapped to tracks with the same channel/port

assignment, regardless of their original track numbers. For

example, if a MIDI file to be loaded contains events assigned to

channel/port 1A, 6D, 7B and 2C, then the resulting sequence

would contain four tracks assigned to these channel/ports, each

containing the events that had the same channel/port

assignments in the MIDI file. This option will cause different

tracks containing the same channel/port assignments to be

merged together, but allows MIDI files with more than 99 tracks

to be loaded.

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