The file format when exporting MIDI in Cakewalk Sonar

by KCLau on October 26, 2009 · 4 comments

in MIDI

From the help menu:

SONAR supports two different MIDI file formats, MIDI Format 0 and MIDI Format 1.

Format 0 MIDI files contain a single track, with all events stored in that track.

Format 1 MIDI files can store up to 7256 tracks, just like SONAR project files.

When you load a MIDI Format 0 file, SONAR splits it into 16 separate tracks, based on the MIDI channels assigned to each event.

When you save a project to a MIDI Format 0 file, SONAR collapses MIDI information from all of its tracks into one single track.

So, please export to MIDI 1 format. So that when you import the MIDI file in Pro Tool or other sequencer software, all the MIDI data is separated into designated tracks and channels.

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October 27, 2009 at 7:01 pm

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1 Besim Maxhuni February 20, 2010 at 9:24 pm

Hello.

Does anyone know is it possible to create sounds and styles for KORG instruments with SONAR, as long as SONAR has the possibility to export a project in Format 0 and Format 1, (the diskette file format that KORG supports)? If possible, does it have everything, like, for ex, when you create a style, to create it with all elements, including Variation 1, Varriation 2….Fill 1, Fill 2, Start/End and so on?

2 Besim Maxhuni February 20, 2010 at 9:27 pm

Then after creating that style, to Save as Format 1… and then copy in Flopy Diskette, then insert the diskette into KORG and import from floppy to KORG as a style…! I am so much interested in this.

Thank you…

3 KCLau February 20, 2010 at 10:38 pm

Im not sure if this can be done.
You can check your Korg keyboard manual. If the sequence pattern can be triggered with MIDI event, maybe a contoller value, it is then possible to trigger the patthern using midi files created in Sonar

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