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BM3 MIDI import problems
I've been trying to import MIDI files into BM3 with limited success over the last couple of days. Today, the Xequence MIDI export dropped and I've been trying to export a file out of Xequence and into BM3. Here's where it gets tricky:
Attempt 1:
I export the MIDI file out of Xequence with the "Export with track swing" and "Export with track delay" options off. I switch to BM3 and I import it into the Imports folder using Files. Then I drag the MIDI file into the Song view window and it works, except it drops in the separate tracks/instruments from Xequencer (Synth track, Bass track, Drums track, etc.) as beats in the piano roll of the Bank I had loaded. To be clear - the Bass line from Xequencer simply shows up in the Hi-Hat pad of the Bank I loaded and doesn't play the individual notes, instead each pattern from the arrangement shows up as a single note. Synth track is on the snare drum pad, etc.
Attempt 2:
Export the MIDI out of Xequence but I choose "Export only selected track" (I highlighted the notes on the Drums track). I follow the same process to bring it into BM3 as above, but when I drag and drop it onto the Song window NOTHING HAPPENS. It asks if I want to import with/without transposing, I choose without and then it just drops back to a blank song. WTF?!?!?!
I've tried innumerable combinations of these steps (only choosing "Export with track swing), or only "Export with track delay", both of those, neither of those, exporting track only while I've selected the instrument in Xequence, exporting track only with the actual notes highlighted, etc. ad nauseum) and nothing seems to work right.
I tried this previously with a MIDI export from Auria and it seemed to work just fine. Is Xequence the problem? Is it BM3? Still new to BM so I have no idea.
Help!
Comments
@dvlmusic: I haven't tested the exported MIDI files with BM3, will do.
Note: "Only selected parts" means that it will only export selected PARTS (in the arranger), NOT selected notes. So, if no parts are selected, you will indeed get an empty MIDI file. If you would like to use this option, then first select one or more parts in the arranger, and then export.
Selected parts like this:
Or like this:
I tried both ways and neither seemed to be importable to BM3, however that doesn't mean the files are unreadable. I'm going to try exporting and importing into Auria next.
Love that you added this functionality! Thanks again - having a blast with Xequence. It's become integral into my workflow.
@dvlmusic thanks and glad to see you're putting the app to good use
MIDI files exported from Xequence should import fine in Cubasis and Auria, we have tested both. Although I've just discovered a problem with event timing slightly off towards the end of exported MIDI files, that should be fixed in the next update going out tomorrow.
Selected as in the first Screenshot. i.e. only selected parts get exported, selecting a track is not enough.
Ok - I tested the export with "Only selected parts" and was able to import the MIDI file successfully into Auria, so it looks like BM3 is the problem.
Interesting side note - I exported the drums from Xequence and successfully imported them into Auria. That same file wouldn't import at all into BM3. So then I tried re-exporting the same file from Auria and importing that new one into BM3. It imported ok, but then showed no note data.
WTF?!?!!?!
Wow - I can see why people struggle with BM3 so much.
@SevenSystems Thanks for replying so swiftly - I appreciate that.
@dvlmusic to be fair to the BM3 guys, the scope of their app is massive and it's already hard enough to keep a pure MIDI sequencer under control quality - wise.
Will try to investigate what BM3 is choking on, and possibly implement a workaround.
I'm still trying to figure out BM3. I still don't understand how a 16x16 pad grid can be both a drum machine/sample player (one drum per pad) and also a collection of instruments (one drum machine/sampler/AUv3 per pad). Maybe you can't have a sampler per pad, but the concept is throwing me for a loop - WHICH IS IT?!?!?!?!
Sounds like the MIDI import in BM3 is twitchy and not just for me. I'll keep trying.
There's a lot I like about BM3, and I can see it's potential ALL over the place. But, like most iOS DAWs, it does some but not all of what I need to do in one place. We'll keep swinging away and see what comes of things.
Thanks for the help!
How do you export directly into Auria? Tried yesterday but it didn't seem to work. Had to use Dropbox for the purpose.
Dropbox is fine, mind you. But what if I want to export a midi track without an internet connection?
EDIT: Ok I sorted it out. In fact, it's just a manipulation of midi files inside the File Manager app itself.
BM3 HAS MIDI import issues. I was drove insane trying to do this. What you can do is record the midi and then you have the notes.
This. Glad someone else said it! I'm not completely new to this stuff. I was before I started posting here, but that was over 4 years ago...in the time since I've learned a ton about synths, MIDI, and music production (to go with the knowledge of guitars I already have). Though I certainly could be putting in more time on it, I really struggle to understand the flow of BM3. Contrast that to something like Cubasis, which I got the basics of without ever reading the documentation.
Aside from forgetting how to do basic things (like clearing a preset/track/whatever they call it), it seems really inconsistent. Sometimes you add a rack or AU instrument and it maps out all the pads to notes. Other times, it seems to pick on note (middle C?) and just samples that note to a single pad. Why would I want to do that? Ugh.
That's the ticket right there. How do you set up the routing for this?
I was EXTREMELY luckH and got a Christmas code for BM3, so I'm feeling semi-obligated to sink my teeth into it to figure it out. I like that there are many similarities between BM3 and iMaschine - when I got my first iPhone 4 I used iMaschine exclusively and generated a few hundred demos with it, took the best ones and made an album from them. There's so much potential here - just gotta get my head around the work flow...
You can actually map different samples to different notes on a single pad
You are wrong.
You can set the bank to respond to midi on a single channel for drum triggering or multi channel where every pad responds to a different channel so you can play chromatically your samples.
Hmmm, OK, so did anyone manage to consistently import a MIDI file into BM3 from ANY app? If not, maybe the thread should be renamed "MIDI import into BM3" or something to make it more generic?
Just changed it - not trying to give Xequence bad press!
Ok so here is quick video of recording midi notes into bm3. Sorry for sound but you should get the picture.
https://youtu.be/zoWKgwzu0mM
Also there is nothing wrong with Xequence..... it’s BM3.
Here is post I put a while ago on midi import into bm3
https://intua.net/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/5615/help-with-midi-import
MIDI files from Maschine desktop load perfectly, MIDI files from Reaper load perfectly.
Is Xequence exporting type 1 or 2 ?
Beatmaker does have issues with a lot of MIDI files.
Posting here will get you no where though, your best bet is to post on the Beatmaker forum so that testers can test and the developer will fix.
Now that's what I call "reverse customer service", thanks!
Type 1 (even if you're exporting parts from just a single track).
Xequence MIDI files import into both Auria and Cubasis perfectly as well, so I have no idea what the problem is... it's probably just the hugely complex and non-standard setup in BM3 that is not compatible with the "normal" linear, track-based format of MIDI files, and there's no really obvious / useful mapping in place in BM3's importer.
@dvlmusic: What I almost forgot to mention: Xequence maps instruments, not arranger tracks to MIDI file tracks on export. So, if you happen to have all of your tracks pointing at the same instrument, all tracks will get merged into one track in the MIDI file. Just thought I'd mention it...
So in essence, whenever you want stuff to be separate in the exported MIDI file, the corresponding arranger tracks have to point to separate instruments in Xequence.
@Chaztrip That was hugely helpful. I didn't think to think of BM3 as the MIDI destination and Xequence as the controller. DUH. Awesome - I'll try that later.
@SevenSystems For this tune I have only 3 tracks mapped to 3 different instruments, so that shouldn't be the issue.
I fully suspect BM3 to be the culprit here based on all the evidence. Thanks for the help, all - at least I can record it directly now and that works in the short term.
I'm not sure if it has been mentioned, but I find the importing of MIDI in BM3 to go smoother when you're in the pattern screen and drop them from browser onto the piano roll on the right hand side.
I'll try that as well -thanks!
@tja: No worries. "8 different channels of iSymphonic" count as 8 different instruments, so your exported MIDI file will have 8 separate tracks. (one instrument = one "vertical box" on the instruments screen in Xequence
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