S.B. Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I have the WK-7500. I made a beat with the song sequencer and saved it to a SD card, but when I played it on my laptop it did not sound the same. It sounded like piano instead of drums. Anybody know why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Need a few more details. What did you use on your computer to play this with? Is it a Mac (Apple) or Windows operating system? Midi is only computer "data", not actual audio sounds but can be manipulated and controlled do to just about anything to your sounds or tones but you need to understand how midi channels or tracks work. Each "track" in the WK (or almost any) sequencer will be preset to one of 16 midi "channels" and whatever your software is must be able to read those 16 channels and match each to a specific sound or "tone" in your computer that matches it, or at least comes close. if you know all this already, sorry to be redundant! There is something called "GM" which stands for "general music" which specifies what sound is supposed to be assigned to each midi channel although these can be changed in software. The WKs use the "GM" standard. If you recorded percussion/drum sounds on the WK on track, also called midi channel 10 (10 is reserved for drums) you computer must have software with midi channel 10 assigned to drums, which most midi software also does automatically. But if you play the drum track and it is assigned to a different midi channel in your computer software, it will play that sound instead-piano is almost always assigned to midi channel 1 so that is probably what is happening here. With midi software, you can cut and paste that drum track into another track assigned to channel 10, or simply change that track's midi channel assignment to 10 and it should be fine. Again, without knowing how you are playing this in your computer, I'm just guessing at what is happening, but I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.B. Posted December 25, 2014 Author Share Posted December 25, 2014 It worked. Thanks. Have a Merry CHRISTmas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 You're welcome. And Happy New Year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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