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I don't know if you'd call the unit vintage yet, but my question is about the Yamaha Motif ES6 and exporting beats from the unit into a PC for further editing.
Bottom line, I have a friend who's a mastermind with this unit but on a limited budget so we don't have the funds to pay a producer to do all of this for us. He has about 30 or more completely finished beats/tracks. What we are looking to do is find the easiest way to extract all the raw midi data into a program (Logic, Ableton, Pro Tools, whatever) while maintaining the sequencing and just replace all the sounds with newer VSTs to give them a more modernized sound/feel . I understand the actual audio sounds won't travel with the midi data and that's ok, I just need the sequencing to stay where it's at so we can change anything (sounds/VSTs) once we have it all mapped out and seperated into individual tracks by instrument in whatever recording software we use. Is this possible?
I realize we can record via midi/usb out live for each track, but we're trying to avoid having to literally live play each song just to transfer them.
Any help would be appreciated!!
Posted : 30/07/2018 8:36 pm
You need to SAVE your Motif ES Song or Pattern as Standard MIDI Files to a storage device (USB stick), you can then move the MIDI to your favorite computer DAW as a .MID File.
Press [FILE]
Press [F2] SAVE
Set the TYPE = SMF
Set the SOURCE to the Song you wish to export.
If a Pattern set the Pattern number and the Section letter you wish to export.
This will create a .mid File that can easily be loaded by any DAW software.
Posted : 30/07/2018 8:56 pm
Can I jump in here for related help? I am trying to create an SMF from PATTERN files to then use on PC to transcribe to music notation. However I can't seem to convert and create MIDI from my PATTERN files....On the ES, I thought I could only save PATTERNS as ALL PATTERN file. I can't find any option (in the file menu) to choose a SOURCE to SAVE any patterns as a SMF. What am I missing / doing wrong?
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:58 pm
Can I jump in here for related help? I am trying to create an SMF from PATTERN files to then use on PC to transcribe to music notation. However I can't seem to convert and create MIDI from my PATTERN files....On the ES, I thought I could only save PATTERNS as ALL PATTERN file. I can't find any option (in the file menu) to choose a SOURCE to SAVE any patterns as a SMF. What am I missing / doing wrong?
See page 132 of your Motif ES Owner's Manual for the details: "Saving a Song or a Pattern Section as a Standard MIDI File"
Posted : 02/09/2018 8:00 pm
