>>> I would strongly suspect that the replacement drive is the problem with regard to saving SMFs and formatting.
I may have to allow for that, but if so, that's rather raw. The drive should not have anything to do with MIDI data being sent from a sequence that's already onboard and playing properly INTERNALLY.
>>>> That said, I note you write: "Cubase shows that its recording note data and pitch bends, for example, so I know its not Cubase. Its simply not being SENT the data."
Does this mean that you're having success getting the MIDI from the 01/W sequencer into Cubase? And that all you're missing are the Program Changes?
Yes, exactly.
>>>> If this is so, why don't you enter the Program Changes into Cubase after you've successfully transferred the MIDI data?
Because there are *numerous* changes and I should not HAVE to go to the microscope level. It would almost be like starting over from scratch because of a simple header issue. It would take a VERY long time to enter each of those by hand. Remember, its not in Cubase or elsewhere as a whole file; I'd have to sit with the 01W in my lap for literally months, pecking away.
No, I want a better method. This has been a VERY unmusical and defeating thing. Who decided I could not just be a composer and had to also be a debugger? I expect to do some configuration and troubleshooting, but this situation, feh. In a sense, Korg is making me suffer for my art TOO much, heh... but its not at all funny. I am seeing it as a glaring failure of the design because its so very basic a thing to expect.
>>>> If you have embedded PCs later in the timeline into the 01/W tracks, you can locate them using the 01/W Event Editor for each such track (you'll have to do this anyway for the 01/W Tempo Track if you have tempo changes in your pieces and you want to recreate this Tempo Map in Cubase).
So I have to go back into EACH TRACK of easily 50 compositions and insert those by HAND? When they are already in the stream? Then why the heck did I leave the realm of tape decks? Besides, the display has dimmed a lot over time; I don't know if that would be a rational way to fix what should have worked to begin with.
>>>> Other than the above, I can think of only one other possible avenue. I don't know if you're familiar with the Karma, but basically you can "compose songs" on the fly and record them straight into your software sequencer.
Okay, but isn't that why you BUY a workstation? NOT to have to accomodate the instrument externally in some clunky fashion? You could do that with a much less expensive synth. I would never have wrestled with a small LCD if Cubase had EXISTED in this form 10 years ago.
>>>> At the Karma-Lab forum, there's a section dedicated to working with external sequencers and a sub-section for Steinberg products.
http://www.karma-lab.com/forum/forumdis ... forumid=59
The Steinberg section contains 19 posts from Cubase users, some of which have attached files detailing how to use the Karma with Cubase. Since this process is very similar in many ways to what you wish to do with the 01/W sequencer, you may glean something useful from them.
Okay, off to do more troubleshooting instead of composing or mixing down, AGAIN. It may be similar, but the 01W is rather elderly, so I do not expect much crossover with a Karma. I'll certainly look, but when people start talking in computer code, I glaze over. I just don't speak binary to that extent.
>>>> Since I don't know what version of Cubase you use, I can't direct you straight to whatever post is relevant for you.
Cubase Studio 4, for Intel Macs, latest build, under OS X 10.4.1. Its pretty current. And remember, all other data is being recorded by Cubase, so its doing ITS job.
>>> Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
No, that's direct and useful info. I am just losing faith in the instrument. I have played live and been applauded, with this very synth, but no one EVER applauded my debugging skills. I can write pretty good music, but damned if I can go that right-brain. The end user should not have to delve into the CODE and that's about what this has begun to look like.
MIDI data is MIDI data. It either goes out or it DOESN'T. Its one hell of a kick in the crotch to devote so much to Korg tools (almost NINE THOUSAND BUCKS over the years) and then discover 10 years after the fact that a $2600 flagship instrument is this fussy. Someone screwed the pooch here and its not me. If the disk drive does everything else it should do, it should have ZERO effect on how MIDI data is handled. The manual SAYS it WILL send it data to outboard sequencers and it doesn't say anything else. I've been caught out very short. At the moment, I'm still waiting for delivery of the workstation I bought a decade ago.
Thanks for taking the time to pass the info along. I'll give it a look TONIGHT!
