Midi import - how would/could it work?

Myrk

I've seen that importing midi is a reasonably high priority for the deluge, but it made me really wonder... how would it do it?

I often program midi with guitar pro, and when I output I have a 4 minute length of midi. Would I need to cut the midi up into riffs, and import instrument at a time to make the riffs, or what? I almost feel that importing midi will need some graphical interface on a PC to organise how it imports.

Just occurred to me when I was thinking about importing the midi for Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich...

How do others envisage this import function working? Just out of curiosity.

rpc9943

I would personally choose the learn button and send the midi through to midi in on deluge, and record it.

Myrk

Workable, but a lot of effort when you have full tunes in midi format and need to cut them up into different sections, as well as the mutiple layers... really needs a 3rd party app to help cut up midi or something and import. Maybe something Downrush can do?

volsteh

@Myrk said:
Workable, but a lot of effort when you have full tunes in midi format and need to cut them up into different sections, as well as the mutiple layers... really needs a 3rd party app to help cut up midi or something and import. Maybe something Downrush can do?

There is, Midian, http://www.fentonia.com/catnip/midianbeta/, tried to convert a song to midi but all I got was empty midi files. Maybe midi to song works? There is a song to Reaper converter, https://github.com/dcower/del2rpp, and DAL Connector, to connect Deluge and Ableton, https://github.com/baronrabban/dalconnector

tingel

Cool, Midi-to-Xml-Export seems to work

GKRGY

FWIW I really love @michaelforrest tools - for both stems and midi

https://squares.tv/posts/how-to-move-midi-tracks-between-your-deluge-and-your-mac