imported MIDI doesn't match grid - why?

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mcrepeau
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imported MIDI doesn't match grid - why?

Post by mcrepeau » Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:27 pm

When I import MIDI files (mostly GM files that I download from the internet) into Ableton Live Lite (version 11.0.6) the notes never match up to the grid in the piano roll. Note lengths seem to be consistently too small, about 75% of what they should be. That is to say, a full measure of notes only spans about three quarters of a measure on the grid.

Why is that? Is there any way I can get the MIDI to match the grid at the time of import? My workaround is to select all of the notes in the clip and stretch them until they match the grid, but that gets rather tedious.

mcrepeau
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Re: imported MIDI doesn't match grid - why?

Post by mcrepeau » Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:16 am

Actually I'm finding that only some tracks have this problem, and when I use MidiYodi to look at the MIDI events, the notes in those tracks really *do* have strange lengths (i.e. they don't start and end at any normal, fractional division of a measure). Don't know why the MIDI tracks are screwed up like that, but the problem is clearly with the tracks and not with Ableton.

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