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richie1027
Total Posts: 686
Joined 10-14-2008 status: Guru |
Hi all.............advanced searched this with all sorts of keyword combinations to no avail. Sometimes when I import/load a SMF (standard midi file), the file name also shows up on the Motif screen as the name. Most times when I’m renaming midi files on my PC and then load to the Motif, the file name does not load.... I then have to enter manually. Anyone familiar with the manner in which midi file names need typed in order to load with the data? many thanks rich |
chasmanian
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Joined 01-27-2014 status: Enthusiast |
hey richie,
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5pinDIN
Total Posts: 11891
Joined 09-16-2010 status: Legend |
You can name an SMF whatever you want, but that won’t change what the Motif calls it. The Song title is part of the data in the SMF - it has to be entered and saved with the file. If you want to convince yourself of this, find an SMF where the name of the file agrees with what the Motif displays when the SMF is loaded. Then rename the file, and load it again. You’ll find that the change in file name doesn’t affect what the Motif thinks the title is. |
richie1027
Total Posts: 686
Joined 10-14-2008 status: Guru |
That makes sense. Still puzzles me how/why some midi files indeed load with an existing (and correct) name.....some that I may have just downloaded. From what you wrote, the motif is reading the data put in the SMF by someone or some program, correct? Or could it just be a fluke? |
5pinDIN
Total Posts: 11891
Joined 09-16-2010 status: Legend |
The Standard MIDI File spec allows for a lot of data to be incorporated into a file’s header. How much of that data is included is at the discretion of the SMF’s creator. In many cases the SMF creator will include the name/title of the Song (in the data), and then similarly name the file - so it might appear that the Motif is reading the file name, but that’s not actually happening. As an example of what kind of data might be in an SMF header, I extracted what follows from http://jbaber.freeshell.org/misc/MIDI/20Macabre.mid
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