Have you heard?..

Have any of you heard anything about being able to transfer the MIDI signal(s) recorded on the MPC to another sequencer/recorder such as Sonar?

I was recently in my local music equipment store. One of the sales associates said that creates a project on the MPC and saves it to his 3.5 floppy (or whichever media is compatible to his MPC).

He said that he then has the ability to take the disk out of his MPC, and insert it into his computer, and can load the file into Sonar, and it will lay the MIDI tracks recorded on the MPC.

He did not do a very good job of explaining how he was able to do this, which is why I'm posting the question here: Are any of you familiar with this, and if so, can you explain how to do it.
When I attempted it, Sonar did not recognize any of my MPC files. If this can be done, it would save a lot of being able to lay multiple MIDI tracks at once compared to 1 track at a time.

Insight,

k.l.

MIDI signals are sent out of the MIDI outs (which can be recorded into another sequencer if you wish). What he was saying is that you can save the MIDI file and open it up in a sequencer program. This only contains note data, so its not helpful when you are only working with samples (unless you have the same sample map set up on that sequencer). Typically they will transfer back and forth well if you are simply using basic notes and midi drums.

On the other hand, there usually isn't a point in doing this if you bought the MPC for sequencing. Might as well stick to whatever you work best with. I sometimes will come up with a midi file on the road and then transfer it over to the MPC later, but again, you have to know what is going to transfer over ahead of time and that your kits are compatible.

Yes ...... the MPC saves individual Sequences, but not whole Songs, as standard midi files (ending .mid .). I can just drag & drop them into Logic on my Mac. I can even get the QuickTime music player to play the files but it sounds pretty terrible as it is just a piano sound playing all the different channels, including drums.

I'm not familiar with Sonar but as long as what you are taking from the MPC is an ordinary midi file I'm sure Sonar can read it.

Gentlemen,

Thank you for taking the time to share that knowledge. Makes more sense now.

k.l.

featherboy wrote:...it is just a piano sound playing all the different channels, including drums.

That would be "standard MIDI"

Most NES games were composed in standard MIDI