Only now have I bought Logic Pro 7.2 as my last resort.Īs you might expect, LogicPro 7.2 does NOT open GB 08 files, and seems to think that they are newer Logic files. I also came across a deal on Ableton Live, but I had the same issue. ProTools LE came with my Mbox2, so I tried that briefly, but had the same problem regarding how to get sound out of a successfully-imported MIDI. Thanks again for the suggestions, but I am afraid that I am still in the dark, and with a few NEW complications.įirst of all, I was formerly using an old version of GarageBand, but it did not allow for tempo changes, so I upgraded to GarageBand 08 and have since been using it extensively. It is a very long story not really worth explaining, but I hope you will forgive me, if you are still out there somewhere. My sincere apologies for not being able to log in for many months. I will try the suggestions that you all gave, and write a follow-up in the next couple of days. Moreover, since I bought it, I figured that I might as well use it, since there would be a lot more flexibility in other areas that I was yet unaware of. Lately, however, QMIDI has been chopping off the last two or three seconds of every file converted this way, so I needed another means of converting from QMIDI to mp3.Īnother issue is that GB has many limitations when printing out the score (such as printing ten bars of silence but not combining them into one to represent all ten), and it occurred to me that Logic probably did a much better job of that also. From QMIDI I would then sometimes export the file to AIF, then open in Audacity in some cases, to boost the overall volume as an audio file, boost the bass, or convert the whole file to mp3. I will post a follow-up shortly.Īs for why I was finally ready to switch over, as I am sometimes limited as to how much time I can invest in the preparation of each MIDI file, I was doing minor preliminary editing in QMIDI, to see which files could be "good enough" without the extra work of tweaking in GB. Give me a day or two to try what you all suggested, as I am in the middle of some other work at the moment. I just checked in to see if by chance there were any early replies, and was surprised to find your very helpful information. I appreciate your patience, and whatever step-by-step instructions you can give me. Yes, I have the printed manuals, but the instructions always seem more concerned with showing me how to connect MIDI controllers and appply sounds to those, than with how to get sound from a lone MIDI file when no hardware is connected. Where do I go to get each track producing sound, or all of them at once? And, after I get my sound, how do I change those instruments to others already installed? How the programs access them, I have never quite understood.Īnyway, today I have successfully opened a MIDI file in Logic, and got it to "play." Unfortunately no sounds were applied automatically (as they were in the other programs), so I hear nothing. I don't know if the computer came with a simple GM set, or if each program installed its own set, but generally they are sufficient for my needs, with a few exceptions, and that is why I installed two or three Jam Packs and other soundfonts. To be honest, to this day I do not know where my software instruments have come from in the other programs. I had been putting off using Logic just to avoid the learning curve, but today I have finally got started. I also have a few other free soundfonts downloaded and installed, which have been working fine in Garageband. From there, within GB, I substituted other installed instruments, such as whatever came with the computer, and a few Jam Packs that I bought and installed separately, having verified that they would all work in Logic 7 also, eventually. In Garageband I simply imported the MIDI file (via various means, including Dent de MIDI), and Garageband usually guessed automatically regarding which sounds to apply to each track. My only need for the program at the moment, is to re-touch MIDI files that I download for the Internet, and make them into accompaniment files that I can export to mp3 and then use, to play along with on my saxophone. I do not want to connect any MIDI controllers to the computer or any other hardware. For five years I've been using Garageband, Audacity, Qmidi, Aria Maestosa, and other simpler sequencer programs at home, and now I have Logic Pro 7 on a Mac. I am an intermediate musician with no recording-studio experience.
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