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?

John

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