importing MIDI Files

[yoshi88]

I haVE saved considerable work in KORG triton.SNG & Korg M3.SNG formats as well as a vast number of *.MID files. over the years.

Rather than recreate I want to merge or import these files into KRONOS.

WHen these TRITON or M3 SNG files are saved as MIDI, they can be imported and seen by KRONOS.

Using Event edit will strip out the program assignments per track, allowing newer program choices to be assigned to each track and saved.

I read the following :

Type 1 files contain separate information for each track. For a Type 0 file, however, all the tracks are merged into a single track, although MIDI channel information is still retained. When a Type 0 file is loaded into a sequencer, it will take each channel’s information and put it on a separate track. So for a typical sequence with one track per MIDI channel, it will normally not matter if the sequence is saved as Type 0 or Type 1.

But if your source sequence has several tracks assigned to the same MIDI channel (for example several drum tracks playing the same program on the same channel, but with an individual drum sound on each track), then it is best to export it as a Type 1 file. If exported as Type 0, all tracks assigned to the same channel will be merged into a single track when the .MID file is loaded.

Question: on songs with multiple tracks, say 4 or 5 tracks , is it best to SAVE MIDI files as type 1 or type 0 to be later imported into KRONOS Sequencer for further editing?

[Dan Stesco]

For KORG in general is better to save format 0.