This is a fun little update to the feature/stepseq branch. I have added import of MIDI files. The procedure is:
- Copy .mid file to /zynthian/zynthian-my-data/zynseq
- From song editor, add a pattern to a track (any will do)
- From menu set the track’s MIDI channel, e.g. 10 - this will be the MIDI channel to extract from the .mid file
- Bold SELECT (or bold click) on the pattern to access pattern editor
- From menu select the pattern that you want to overwrite (this and subsequent consecutive patterns will be overwritten - as many as needed)
- From menu select the steps in the pattern, e.g. 32
- From menu select the steps per beat, e.g. 8
- From menu select Import
- Select the file to import from the list
The pattern that you selected will be overwritten with the first section from the MIDI file. Subsequent patterns will be overwritten with each subsequent section from the MIDI file. If there is a silent section then a pattern will not be overwritten until a section with content is found.
I appreciate this isn’t necessarily the simplest method but it does work and maybe we can build up a library of sequences. I might add a feature in future to import single patterns from such a library.
Have fun and remember, the beat goes on…