I've encountered downloaded MIDI files, that, while they sound and play quite well using a MIDI sequencing playback program, the person who created the file did not play to the click and thus the recorded notes are "all over the place" as regards the bars and notes MIDI boundaries. For example, someone playing ahead of or behind the beat can get too far away from that and the notes played can end up being part of the next bar or the preceeding bar as far as the MIDI quantization goes.

Other times someone may have simply turned off the click and proceeded to play and record to MIDI as if it were an audio recorder. These kind of files are typically going to be useless for attempts at editing, etc. without resorting to long manual sessions in an attempt to straighten that out. And you will lose the feel of the piece almost certainly.

John points out some other good possibilities above, too.

What always gets me is that people don't seem to bolame the free MIDI downloaded file for these kind of problems. They typically blame the host software they are trying to use on it instead.


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