Exporting MIDI

You can export the entire project as a Standard MIDI file, or export individual MIDI Groove clips.

Note: Only the MIDI portion of your projects is saved in a standard MIDI file. If your projects contain digital audio, the audio portion of the project will be lost when you save it to a standard MIDI file.

Features not supported by MIDI files

While the MIDI file format is very flexible and extensive, it cannot store the following parameters that are part of a standard project file:

Articulations

Key offset (Key+)

Velocity offset (Vel+)

Time offset (Time+)

Forced channel

Track state (all tracks are saved without mute, solo, or archive indicators)

When you save a project to a Standard MIDI file, most of these parameters are applied to the individual events. For instance, if you have assigned track 1 to channel 10 in the Track view, Sonar will write the MIDI file so that every event on track 1 has a channel number of 10. When you subsequently load the MIDI file all of those Track view parameters will have vanished. But the music will sound the same, because Sonar has made these changes to the events themselves.

To export the current project as a Standard MIDI file

1.	In the Track view, make a time selection to select the range that you want to export, or clear the selection (Edit > Select > None) to export the entire project.

2.	Choose File > Export > Standard MIDI File to open the Save Copy dialog box. The project must contain MIDI data to make the command available.

3.	Navigate to a folder where you store the MIDI clip.

4.	Type a name for the clip in the File Name field.

5.	Under Save as type, select the desired MIDI file format:

MIDI Format 0. Standard MIDI File that has all channels merged into one track.

MIDI Format 1. Standard MIDI File that keeps each channel on a separate track.

Riff MIDI Format 0. Riff MIDI File of Format 0.

Riff MIDI Format 1. Riff MIDI File of Format 1.

6.	Click the Save button.

To export a single MIDI clip

1.	Select the MIDI clip (see MIDI Groove Clips) that you want to export.

2.	Go to File > Export > Standard MIDI File to open the Save Copy dialog box.

3.	Navigate to a folder where you store the MIDI clip.

4.	Type a name for the clip in the File Name field.

5.	Click the Save button.

You can also drag a MIDI Groove clip from Sonar to the Windows Explorer or the Media Browser. For details, see Exporting via drag and drop.

To export a MIDI Groove clip

1.	Select the MIDI Groove clip (see MIDI Groove Clips) that you want to export.

2.	Go to File > Export > MIDI Groove Clip to open the Export MIDI Groove Clip dialog box.

3.	Navigate to a folder where you store MIDI Groove clips.

4.	Type a name for the clip in the File Name field.

5.	Click the Save button.

Sonar exports the MIDI Groove clip, which contains the information displayed in the Clip Properties Inspector’s Groove Clip section, except for the Pitch (semitones) field, which does not get exported.

You can also drag a MIDI Groove clip from Sonar to the Windows Explorer or the Media Browser. For details, see Exporting via drag and drop.

Note: You can not export MIDI Groove clips by saving your project as a Standard MIDI File, because Standard MIDI Files do not contain MIDI Groove clip data, such as transposition value, etc.

 

See:

Exporting and importing MIDI Groove clips

To save a project as a Standard MIDI file or RIFF MIDI file

MIDI files

MIDI Groove Clips

Exporting