Export midi track to a .mid file?

I'm not at my daw and I'm not powering up right now. so dont hold me to it.

you should select your midi track info on the track view and choose export in the file menu. there's and option to choose midi1 or midi2  then export. I think it's that simple.

someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
man, it bother me to give out iffy info. i'm gonna power up the daw and try right now. ..please hold.


wrong

MIDI type 0 = all data stored in 1 track
MIDI type 1 = each MIDI channels data is stored in a separate track with drums usually on Channel 10. this is the preferred method of saving.

Hmm no joy doing that.  I am using X1.  I select the track and indeed they are all highlighted across the single track.  I have about 5 lanes of midi clips, some looped, some step sequencer clips etc.  When I then select tracks/bounce to tracks, I get the error "the specified selection did not contain any audio data.  Please ensure that the selection contains the audio data you wish to bounce".  Well no, it's not audio I wish to bounce.  I could swear I've done this in the past before, bounced midi to a single track.  Is this a function that dropped with X1?  There are no equivalent items under the midi menu either.  File/export  midi groove clip is also disabled.  

You can't bounce multiple MIDI tracks to one MIDI tracks. You can only do it on one track and use Bounce to Clip(s)... not Bounce to Track(s).

In your original post you said you were trying to export a single MIDI track.

Select the track, Bounce to Clip(s), drag and drop. That should do the trick...

Scott

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Hi - 

It works for me; X1 producer. 

Here is a little viddy:

http://www.screencast.com/users/kahlilg/folders/Jing/media/9e8fb08d-6ed7-4b1a-aa3a-0635eb605e47

OK folks - I have another issue regarding MIDI Export: I have a drum performance on one MIDI track in SONAR X1. I need to mail this to a client, since they want to give input on a part between 2.50-3.10 ca. Now - I can't export only that part because then it will be difficult to have it lined up in their DAW. Therefore I've tried to erase all MIDI info before and after 2.50-3.10 so there will be a full MIDI track with large chunks of silence before/after and then events happening at above mentioned time. This seems to be impossible, since whatever I do, every export (save as) renders the full MIDI performance, which I DON't want. I have tried: -Erasing before and after, both in tracks view as well as in staff view. -Muting the clips before and after. And I save as MIDI 0 in my case. Bouncing to clip after erasing the clips before/after. No change whatsoever. I ALWAYS get the full performance no matter what I do. I just need a clip of 4.42 with silence everywhere except between 2.50-3.10. What do I do??

  Thank you kindly for input Garry. In theory that would work excellent yes. In practice, when I copy, either if its dragging the specific part to a MIDI-track below, or copying via Ctrl-C and pasting into the lane below the MIDI data before/after is still there when I drag out the handles. So still nothing. I'm extremely confused why I can't make this seemingly simple task work on one of the worlds leading DAW's.

  Thanks for your time Garry. Tried both now actually. Unchecked nondestructive editing under MIDI in preferences (as it was on before) and exported. Still nothing. Everything is there as it should not be. Tried PRV - nothing. Did I mentioned I have tried to erase everything in staff view as well? Seems like this is a major flaw if it cannot be worked out. I should be able to save/export a midi file and have silence on both sides of my section, but apparently not. The stuff keeps getting in there despite my erasing over and over again in different ways.

The easiest way to export MIDI is to drag the MIDI-track to the desktop (according to what I'
ve read here on  the forum). I have no idea of how the format 0/1 is handled in that method.

Crazy mate - I hope you get it sorted.


Garry

This is a very old thread but some thigs don't change.
 
It's as simple as this: 
File 
"SAVE AS"
"MIDI 1" 
I do this a lot. Even a complicated muti track audio and midi project using 10 VST instruments and a zillion plug in effects will be saved. 
If you then open this file even in a different DAW all the fancy stuff and audio tracks will be gone but each midi track will be there and still maintain it's original channel. 
If you want the midi file to be GM compatible you will need to set the tracks up with their own channels etc. You would also need to use GM patch and Bank assignments. Best to open this file with TTS-1 as the only VST to check how it plays. 
 
If all you want is one track , say the drum track, then myself I do the same but I re-open the midi file in a new project and simply delete all the unwanted tracks, takes 2 seconds. 
 
Another way I would do this is make a back up copy of the original project and then delete all but the midi tracks I want saved and then "save as" MIDI 0 " this will take a bunch of drum tracks and clips and make it into one nice track.