Old 08-26-2011, 07:07 AM   #1
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Hi all - I just received a file from a friend of mine. It's a drum track from Superior Drummer. The file extension is .midi, and I can't find a way to import it into Reaper. I think he used a Mac to output the file. I don't know if this makes a difference, since I'm on Windows 7. Is there a conversion utility that I need to use, or what I can do to get this file into Reaper. Does anyone know?
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Old 08-26-2011, 07:13 AM   #2
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Rename it to .mid

I think that should do it.

http://www.midi.org/aboutmidi/tut_midifiles.php
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Old 08-26-2011, 07:38 AM   #3
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Tried, but wouldn't worky. :-/
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Old 08-26-2011, 07:45 AM   #4
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Can we have a look at the file? Post it as a ZIPPed attachment.

Or get your friend to create a Standard MIDI File.
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Old 08-26-2011, 08:36 AM   #5
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Sure, here 'tis. Thank you!
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Old 08-26-2011, 09:04 AM   #6
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There are no MIDI notes in that file, it looks like some sort of descriptor file.

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Old 08-26-2011, 01:38 PM   #7
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Thanks, DarkStar. I appreciate the help. How did you break that info down?
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Old 08-26-2011, 02:10 PM   #8
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How did you break that info down?
He's using a hex editor, which is a tool normally used by programmers.

The numbers on the left are byte values shown in hexadecimal (base 16). A byte can hold values from 0-255 (decimal), which is from 0 to FF (hex).

On the right, any values that happen to represent valid ASCII characters are displayed as characters. For example, the hex value 4D (115 decimal) represents the letter "M".

The hex editor doesn't "know" if 115 is supposed to represent an M in this particular file. It just knows that it can be an M. A human can see it's part of "Midi", and a MIDI application knows it's supposed to say "Midi" in the file header.


BTW - As you may know, the values in the file are not actually in hex, they are in binary (base 2). But binary (a long string of ones & zeros) is a pain to work with. Programmers use hex because it turns-out that converting between hex & binary is easier than converting between decimal and binary... You can easliy learn to do hex-binary conversions of any size in your head!

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got it...thanks! Also, I got the actual file, and it worked!
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Good oh!
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