Having difficulty turning midi into a phrase using the editor. Wonder what I'm doing wrong.

[dc2k]

I've done this before but not in a long time. 
I don't have it connected to the board at the moment. 
all I'm doing is dragging midi files into the left column from a folder then from dragging them from the left column into the right one. 
I get a phrase convert error. 
thought it might be the midi file but I've tried a few from different sources. 
Can you see if I'm doing anything wrong?
maybe something with the options on the bottom. 
what should they be set to?

[Brad Saucier]

The manual says this about that error message; "The conversion start point or

end point could not be specified because there is no valid event in the MIDI file, etc."

 

Are you sure track 1 of the file has data on it?  

[dc2k]

1 hour ago, Brad Saucier said:

The manual says this about that error message; "The conversion start point or

end point could not be specified because there is no valid event in the MIDI file, etc."

 

Are you sure track 1 of the file has data on it?  

 

not sure, Brad. I was just taking mike's suggestion in his last vid and downloading some random drum midi sequences off the net. 
how do I check?
I opened one in reaper and resaved it to see if that would sort it but it didn't. 

[dc2k]

1 hour ago, Brad Saucier said:

The manual says this about that error message; "The conversion start point or

end point could not be specified because there is no valid event in the MIDI file, etc."

 

Are you sure track 1 of the file has data on it?  

here's what the midi looks like in reaper. 
maybe if I delete some of the first items?

edit: doesn't seem to have worked.

Edited August 19, 2021 by dc2k

[Brad Saucier]

It appears everything is on channel 10, as drums should be in a MIDI file.  Try setting the data editor to channel 10.  That should do it.

[dc2k]

okay so the midi is on channel 10 so I set the editor to channel 10 and I think that's what solved it.

[dc2k]

3 minutes ago, Brad Saucier said:

It appears everything is on channel 10, as drums should be in a MIDI file.  Try setting the data editor to channel 10.  That should do it.

Got it. Thanks Brad. 
Never used midi much. 
getting back into figuring this stuff out and messing around.