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4. Open the FILES pane of the Browser and navigate to the desired MIDI file (see section
↑4.6, Loading and Importing Files from Your File System to know how to use the FILES
pane).
5. Double-click the MIDI file or click it and press [Enter] on your computer keyboard.
→ The MIDI file will be imported to the selected Pattern for the focused Sound according to
the import rules described below.
MIDI to Sound – import rules: When you import a MIDI file into a Sound via its context menu,
MASCHINE assumes that the MIDI file contains data for one single instrument (e.g., a bass or
a lead synthesizer), and the import will be performed accordingly. Your MIDI file will be im-
ported as follows:
▪ The imported MIDI data will replace any existing data (notes, MIDI tracks, and modulation
tracks) for that Sound in the selected Pattern. For the other Sounds the Pattern content
won’t be affected.
▪ Any channel information in the MIDI file will be disregarded. All notes will appear in the
same Pattern for that particular Sound. If the same MIDI note number and MIDI CC num-
ber are used in different channels in the MIDI file, the note and automation data will be
merged. Conflicts will be resolved as follows:
◦ Note duplicates: only the longest note is kept.
◦ Modifiers (Mod Wheel, Pitch Bend, etc.), Velocity, and MIDI CCs: higher values are
kept.
Importing Multiple MIDI Files to a Sound or a Group
You can even select multiple MIDI files and import them all to a Sound or Group at once!
Contrary to the single-file import described above, importing multiple files doesn’t replace the
content of the selected Pattern — instead, for each MIDI file in the selection a new Pattern
will be created.
As a consequence, when importing multiple MIDI files you don’t need to select any particular Pat-
tern beforehand.
To import multiple MIDI files to a Group:
Working with Patterns
Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
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