Get more out of those midis!

I found a midi that had different instruments/channels when I played it in my media player; however, when I brought it into live, I only had one track to play with.

Turns out that these midis are "format 0" and they need to be "format 1".

"A Format 0 file contains a single track and represents a single song performance. Format 1 may contain any number of tracks, enabling preservation of the sequencer track structure, and also represents a single song performance." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Instrument_Digital_Interface

It is quite easy to to convert from one format to another. I used the 5 day demo of "gnmidfmten" - http://www.gnmidi.com/gnmidfmten.htm

It converted the file from 0 to 1 (thus converting the channels to tracks) and now I have multiple tracks in live.