Midi tracks

Hi everyone,

I have been struggling to import my midi tracks for a few days now.

I bought my MPC live 2 mainly to perform my pre-existing songs. I want to import the songs on a track by track basis meaning that I want to import the midi from let’s say for example my drums and sample a kit accordingly. The sampling part is no problem but importing midi has been tiresome. I merge my midi parts per track in Logic Pro X but still it appears as multiple tracks on the MPC Live 2 holding random parts of my midi data.

This way of working seems counterproductive. I also tried to record the midi data on a track from Logic to the MPC but this didn’t seem to work. If I can’t find a proper workflow for this I might need to end up selling the unit which is a same cause I like the pads, U/I and I/O a lot

0 = single track file format
1 = multiple track file format

When saving from DAW do you have the option of choosing the type of midi file? I don’t use a DAW, just stating that there are 2 types.

FYI there is this tool that lets you convert midi to mpc pattern format - which can be imported into a single MPC track
http://www.fentonia.com/catnip/midianmpc/index.html

Thanks for the input!

Lampdog wrote:0 = single track file format
1 = multiple track file format

When saving from DAW do you have the option of choosing the type of midi file? I don’t use a DAW, just stating that there are 2 types.

Actually, there‘s also SMF (standard MIDI file) format 2, although this is rarely used.
Source (see PDF)

so now (as of MIDI 2.0) you have the MIDI clip file (similar to SMF format 0) and the MIDI clip file with the MIDI container file complementary (similar to SMF format 1) added