User Guide

36 Chapter 5 Importing Files
To open a MIDI file:
1 Choose File > Open from the main menu bar (or use the Open key command), then
select the desired MIDI file in the ensuing file selector box.
If a song is loaded, a dialog will ask if you want to create a new environment or copy
the current environment for the MIDI file.
2 Do one of the following:
 Click Copy to replicate the existing environment. The tracks of the MIDI file are
automatically assigned to suitable instruments.
 Click New to load the environment of the default song template (this template is
based on choices made when you ran the Logic Setup Assistant).
The MIDI file is loaded as a new song that contains all MIDI events—inclusive of time
positions and channel assignments, names of individual tracks, names and positions of
markers, tempo changes and copyright marks.