importing midi

[dts350z]

When I do file--> import --> midi, and select a midi file, when I click open nothing happens. The file dialog is still open?

I can drag the same file into a session, but then I don't get to use the tempo in the midi file.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a PT 10 bug?

[dts350z]

I see that I had posted this same questing under PT 9, with no working fix either.

Here's an update, If I run the midi files through a midi file format converter to type 0, then they import as expected.

However, I'm not convinced that's the whole story, because I moved one of the working type 0 files from one PT machine to another, via gmail attachment, and it stopped working so it seems that maybe there is something that is not "bit perfect" in up/downloading midifiles that pro tools doesn't like.

I'll try converting the same problem files to type 1 format and see if that also works, and report back, under the theory that that the file conversion is "fixing" a format problem vs. Pro Tools not supporting one of the two midi file types.

[filosofem]

Where did the SMF originate?

[dts350z]

An example here:

http://www.classicalmidiconnection.c...roModerato.mid

I also tried running it through Plogue Bidule, so as to re-record the file, but the results still didn't load into Pro Tools.

[Richard901]

PT 9.0.3 for MAC imports the MIDI file correctly (8 tracks).

One idea:
Right-clicking on "Allegro Moderato" just saves an shtml file which is not the MIDI file.

BUT
Left-click on "Allegro Moderato".
The MIDI files plays.
Right-click on here and save the file.
The file is a MIDI file which Pro Tools imports correctly.

*****EDIT******
Just read your first post again. Obviously you have downloaded the MIDI file correctly, because you can drag it into Pro tools.
I'll have to learn to read!