Midi export sounds like a bunch of pianos...

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Midi export sounds like a bunch of pianos...

So I'm trying to export a project I made as a MIDI to share with my friend, and every part (guitars, drums, bass) has been exported with the instrument set to the piano.

How do I get Logic to export a Midi file sans piano?

(P.S., This is Logic Express 9 I'm working with should anyone ask)

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MacBook Pro (13" June 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.2), 4GB RAM, 160GB HDD

Posted on Mar 5, 2010 9:04 PM

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Brazeca

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Mar 6, 2010 1:36 AM in response to espeed623

What kind of instrument or software does your friend use? This thing isn't a bug or a problem. For the MIDI part of it to work, just insert Program Change numbers representing the corresponding instruments in the very beginning of each track. See the GM (General MIDI) specifications or MIDI Implementation Charts for Logic's Instruments to figure out what PC numbers you need to insert.

An alternative way is not to do anything with the project but just to describe to your friend what instruments are supposed to be playing on which track.

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Mar 11, 2010 12:02 AM in response to Brazeca

Methinks my friend uses Fruity Loops, but I'm not too entirely sure.

Anyway,

Thanks a bunch, although, based on Logic's GM setup, I can't seem to output the drums as a drum set. Guess I'll need some third party add-on for that, eh?

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Mar 11, 2010 7:04 AM in response to espeed623

Sounds like the export worked fine. Your problem is that you do not have each channel set to play the midi notes as the sound you expect to hear. Piano sounds are a pretty universal default so all you gotta do is set up a virtual instrument in whatever program your importing the midi into and then bring the midi notes into the set up.

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