Dumb Newbie Question

[korgkarma]

Hi All! Great forum!!!

Here's my dumb question. I have read that the Fusion will read .mid files but mine is not. I first tried to bring them over from the CF card and no dice so I tried to bring them from USB and still no joy. Then I renamed them as a .afn file and transferred them to the user directory in the songs section and I still don't see them. I'm using Boot Ver 1.0, OS 1.23 and Sound Rom 1.23. I have not loaded any HS sounds yet. I've not educated myself to that extent. LOL

Thank you for any help you may have!

[gwenhwyfaer]

Well, having never actually done anything with .MID files before, I figured it was about time I did... so I dutifully went to the Web and downloaded the first random MIDI file I came across... ye gods, are they all that bad?! Anyway...

You have two choices. From within Song mode, you can press Edit, choose the Utilities softkey on the left, then the SongUtils key on the right, and then Import - that'll allow you to import any old MIDI file from any old CF card, so long as the Fusion can read it. But you'll have to save it before you can move to another song.

Alternatively, you can rename it to 'whatever.afn' and put it in a subdirectory of Songs (/Volume/Songs/ImportedStuff/ or something) and then verify the banks - to do that, you press Global, then the Item softkey on the left, move the cursor to Songs, press Mark (which should put a little tick next to it) and choose Process, then choose Verify. If you don't verify the banks, the Fusion may have an inkling that your file's there, but it's damn well going to wait for you to tell it before it lets on.

...At which point you can select the song, press Play... and run for the volume knob as all the things you'd expect to be drum channels have miraculously become Holy Grail Pianos... so go back into Global, choose Settings then MIDI, turn General MIDI on, and the drums become drums again.

[korgkarma]

Thank you!!! I tried to drag it from my laptop but failed to verify. I also was attempting to load type 0 so I had to get a midi type converter and switch them to type 1. I had everything wrong that one could have wrong! LOL

Thank you for your hard work. I used the first method and it works just great! ;D

[stuart]

I found a very useful utility at www.gnmidi.com which offers a surprising amount of tools on top of simple type conversion.

Thanks for the tip on setting General MIDI, as I have been going into each track and selecting an appropriate patch, but is a real pain when you have lots of tracks, especially when drums are split into multiple tracks.