File Mode [FILE]
Reference
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DTX900 Owner’s Manual
A Standard MIDI file (a common file format with the file
extension: “.MID” for MIDI sequence data, also called
“MIDI file” or “SMF”) format 0 can be loaded from the
USB storage device to the DTX900 and can be used as a
User Song.
1
Press the [FILE] button to enter the File
mode, then press the [F2] LOAD button to
call up the Load display.
2
Move the cursor to TYPE, then set the File
type to “Song.”
Only available files according to the Type are listed in the
Directory/File list box on the display.
3
Move the cursor to the Directory/File list
box, then select the MIDI file (Extension:
.MID) to be loaded.
You can select any of the files listed in the Directory/File list
box on the display.
4
After selecting the MIDI file, press the
[SF1] EXEC button.
The User Song number and name for the Load destination
appear on the left half of the display.
5
Select the User Song number for the Load
destination.
6
Press the [SF1] EXEC button again to exe-
cute the Load operation.
Loading Standard MIDI files (SMF)
NOTE
• Only Format 0 Standard MIDI Files (SMFs) can be loaded.
• When a Standard MIDI file song (format 0) is loaded, parameters
such as volume, pan, and program change located at the very top of
the song (001:01:000) are handled as header data and applied to the
settings on the Voice Job display called up via [SONG]
→
[F2] JOB
→
[SF4] VOICE. The settings on the Voice Job are not transmitted to the
internal tone generator or the external MIDI device even when the
Song is started although they are transmitted to the internal tone gen-
erator or the external MIDI device when the Song is selected.
Because of this, the following problems may occur.
• When a Song that includes settings such as volume, pan and pro-
gram change somewhere in the middle is played back with the
Repeat setting “on” (in the display called up via [SONG]
→
[F1]
PLAY, or the display called up via [SONG]
→
[F2] JOB
→
[SF1]
SONG
→
03: Song Name, Tempo, Repeat) by pressing the [
>
/
■
]
button, the sound originally at the top of the Song may differ in sub-
sequent playbacks.
• When a Song that includes settings such as volume, pan and pro-
gram change somewhere in the middle is played back with the
Repeat setting “on” (in the display called up via [DRUM KIT]
→
[F5]
PAD
→
[SF3] PADSONG) by using the Pad Song function (page
93), the sound originally at the top of the Song may differ in subse-
quent playbacks.
To avoid the problems described above, move the parameter settings
at the top of the SMF Song to a few clocks later on your computer or
MIDI sequencer before executing the Load operation in the File mode.
These parameter settings will then not be handled as header data,
meaning that they will be properly transmitted to the internal tone
generator or external MIDI device when the Song is started.
