bob3c Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 I have saved a user sequencer song to memory card as a SMF. When I play the song from the memory card with Precount ON, I hear 4 clicks counting in Measure #-001. Then I hear another 4 clicks counting in measure #000 (click #1 is slightly delayed)and then the song begins. Why is this happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Precount gives you a 1 measure click track before the song starts playing. This is normal. Try turning precount off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob3c Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 Brad: Thank you for your response. I have tried with Precount OFF and that does cancel Precount completely. With Precount ON there is an extra measure (Measure # -001, yes, a negatively numbered measure) clicking before Measure #000 begins. I assume that Measure #000 would be the normal Precount measure. Why is the negatively numbered measure also playing? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 The negative measure is not actually part of the recording. It is added by the system in real time. This is why it's a negative value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob3c Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 IMG_0011.MOV Yes I understand. I have attempted to attached a video with Precount OFF and then Precount On. I hope that this video works! Thanks again. Quote IMG_0011.MOV IMG_0011.MOV IMG_0011.MOV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob3c Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 Brad, Thanks for helping me out. I understand the procedure now. The songs that I am recording are mostly just bass and drums. How many SMF files can I expect to be able to store on a 16Gb memory card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 16GB of midi files? It's in the 6 figures. I have an old CD disk that has 90,000 midi files on one computer CD-I didn't know there were that many in the entire world although many of these are variations of the same song...and an old computer CD holds what-700 Megabytes? So a 16GB (!) thumb drive can hold the equivalent of roughly 20 computer CDs. Of course, many of these files on this CD are very short drum and bass rhythms-1K or so, but most are full song files. Seems insane, but I've looked through the index-i don't know who put these together originally, and I bought this at least 10 years ago! So doesn't even include songs since then. I don't think you have to worry about running out of room on your drive. Even a typical .wav file from the audio recorder will take up 10-80MB per recording depending on length of the file, and mp3's m4a's are one quarter of that, roughly. So you could store thousands of midi files, hundreds of audio recorder songs and probably hundreds of mp3's on the same thumb drive. I'm working on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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