Drag'n'drop MIDI files

because MIDI files may contain more than one track or channel and that would clash with an already existing MIDI track which stands for one and only specific MIDI channel, always.

you can drop a MIDI file into the Files window pane and after that expanding it for you to see all the channels (SMF Format 0) or tracks (SMF Format 1) in there: only these may be food for new MIDI clips, not the whole file; from there you may then drag-n-drop over the main canvas and place a new MIDI clip anywhere, as long it's a MIDI track...

when dropping onto the empty area, a MIDI file will unfold into as many tracks as there are channels (format 0) or tracks (format 1); when dragging from the leaves of the Files tree window, it will only open one single MIDI Clip if on an existing MIDI Track or on one MIDI Track that is created automagically if dropped into the void zone).

all's working as designed long time ago :)

hth.
cheers

Each time a new track is added or an existing track is removed, when opening the mixer the mixer's view changed back to only one row of sliders/faders.
that's somewhat unrelated to the topic at hand ...

the said annoyance is probably a temporary layout glitch: you may well give a little nudge on the mixer size yourself and it probably will go back into a multi-row layout again :)

cheers

maybe fixed on develop branch, commit 7c5d25.

thanks

may I say it's a way too vague of a report?

is it the first time you're making such kind of connections? what do you expect to hear anyway? you of course know that MIDI does no sound at all until you connect to an instrument, sound module, synth or some module or plugin that trnslates/renders incoming MIDI into audio , don't you?

please tell us (a lot) more what you're trying to do and what you expect from there, will you?

cheers