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Hello,
I've saved (within PT Pro) a tune as "Save all tracks to individual files (WAV, MID,) and the programme saved the individual files to a folder, which is what I wanted. I am now trying to open this same file back into PT Pro, and that's when the problem starts. I can't select all the files within the folder to PT. If I try to do it one at a time, which I've been forced to try. I open up file one (bass) and it opens. I try and open file two, and it opens, but also in file 1, apparently replacing file 1. I assume I'm doing something wrong but can't figure it out... Can anyone help please?
Best regards.
Ken
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Why do you need to save tracks to individual files? Have you saved your project as a .SEQ (which is PowerTracks file format)? This preserves all your settings on all your tracks between sessions.
PTPA only opens one file at a time. So, if you open a MIDI file using "File, Open", and then subsequently open another file using "File, Open", it has overwritten your original file, but replaced it (however, if you said "no" to save, you may have lost any changes you made in the first file). And if you save a file as MIDI, you will lose any track specific settings when you try to re-open it later (it won't have an assigned softsynth or any effects applied, for example). The .SEQ file keeps all this information. You usually export out to individual files when you want to use them in a different DAW.
For bringing tracks back into PTPA, however, what you want to do is use the commands to insert those individual files onto the tracks, such as "Import", or "Load Scrap" followed by Paste, or "Insert Audio", or even drag and drop.
As I said, however, that if you save a MIDI track out to a MIDI file, and then try to bring it back it, all you are going to get is the raw MIDI file. There will be no information about what softsynth or effects you may have applied to the original track. You'll get the notes, channel, and maybe the assigned instrument (but that really depends on what synth you used in the first place).
It seems to me that what you are really needing to do is to become familiar with the .SEQ file, which saves your project as a project all in one file.
Or did I misinterpret your question?
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Thanks John, That's the answer I require. I'd not used the software for a long time before I upgraded to 2015. That particular format was a totally new one to me, so I saved to that, when I should have saved to Seq...
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Ken
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Just a thought, if these individual midi file folders are redundant or pointless, why is there such a format?
Best regards.
Ken
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Saving to other formats allow you to use different software to process them. For example, because Melodyne doesn't work properly with PTPA or RealBand clocking, I will take a vocal I recorded in RealBand (essentially the same as doing it in PTPA) and save it out to a WAV file, do pitch correction in Melodyne, and then import it back in to RealBand.
Not so much for MIDI tracks (since they don't take up as much room), but I will also sometimes save off audio tracks to WAV (perhaps multiple takes) that I'm not necessarily using on the project at this time, but don't want to lose later. That keeps the .SEQ file smaller, but still makes those files available to me to import back in if I want to. Sometimes I decide I might want a remove recorded part from the project, but later change my mind and add it back in.
Likewise, I might record a MIDI part in RealBand using my keyboard. I can then export it out to a .MID file, which I can use to create notation in my preferred notation program.
Having the options allows for great flexibility.
That being said, most other DAW's also have their own proprietary "project" format to save everything you do as a "project", but they also allow exporting and importing of the individual file types.
Hope that made sense.
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Thanks very much John, much appreciated.
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