[pete townshend]

Here is the exact process I used to get MIDI export from EZ Drummer to work properly in Digital Performer 11.

1. Export EZ Drummer MIDI file. Be careful to give it an obvious name.
2. Highlight entire DP project.
3. Export entire project as MIDI file. (It must be highlighted to see this option)
4. Shut down DP.
5. You should now have TWO related MIDI files on your desktop (or w.h.y) One for drums, one for the sequence with tempo map etc.
6. Open LIVE
7. Drag both files into MIDI tracks – accepting the option to include tempo etc.
8. Now export just the drum track (with a new name so you don’t confuse it with the one you just exported from DP) as a MIDI file.
9. Shut down LIVE and open DP
10. Drag the drums MIDI file from LIVE into a MIDI track in DP.
11. Voila!

This seems to work every time. If you don’t have LIVE it MAY work to do the same stunt with LOGIC, FL w.h.y. I haven’t tested it. It seems EZ is not exporting a tempo map DP can read on the first import of the MIDI file, but can read it when it’s been sent to a less complicated DAW. (Sorry MOTU, DP sometimes shows its age. I’ve been using it since 1985!!!)

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[pete townshend]

Discovered that my suggestion does not always work. Instead, on a tricky project, I just tried exporting the EZ drum MIDI to Ableton LIVE, then exported it from there, into a DP MIDI track and that works fine. No idea what’s happening on other occasions.

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[pete townshend]

I’m on DP 11 and often have the same issue. I know this is coming VERY late, but this is to do with the exported MIDI “Chunk” being a different length to the track. (The end times are different). Import the MIDI file (drag into a chunk window) and check the difference in lengths, then use scale time to correct the length of the MIDI file.

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[pete townshend]

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