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January 14, 16 3:20 PM (permalink)

How do I separate MIDI channels to their own tracks?

I have successfully recorded a MIDI file from my old MC50mkII sequencer to MC7.  The song uses four different MIDI channels, but of course they're all recorded to one track on MC.   Now I need to separate those channels so that drums, bass, piano and strings are each on their own tracks.  How do I do that?  I haven't found an answer searching the menus in MC and going through the help docs.
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    Re: How do I separate MIDI channels to their own tracks? January 14, 16 3:47 PM (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby jyoung60 January 14, 16 4:57 PM
    Two ideas come to mind.
    Save the file as MIDI format 1, then open the MIDI file
    Create 4 MIDI tracks containing the data and use the MIDI Event Filter MFX to filter by channel.
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    Re: How do I separate MIDI channels to their own tracks? January 14, 16 4:47 PM (permalink)
    Perfect!  Though I should mention that saving to MIDI format 0 is the one I had to use. :) 
     
    Strangely, the event filter doesn't provide any options for MIDI channels.  Everything else, yes, but not channels.

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    Re: How do I separate MIDI channels to their own tracks? January 14, 16 4:49 PM (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby jyoung60 January 14, 16 5:13 PM
    Channel is in the dialog displayed when the "Non-special events" button is clicked on the Event Filter MFX
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    Re: How do I separate MIDI channels to their own tracks? January 14, 16 5:01 PM (permalink)
    Ah! I see!

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    VST: Roland Sound Canvas VA
    Hardware: Roland MC50mkII Sequencer; Yamaha DGX-660 keyboard; Steinberg UR-44 Interface
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