[seq24-users] MIDI record question

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Hi all,

Thanks to the documentation that I neglected in the past, as well as the
link from Ivan, I've quickly found that seq24 is much greater than I
thought, and I am in love.. :)

So in the documentation and from poking around, I have not found how to do
the following:

I want to dump my old sequences from my Yamaha RM1x sequencer into seq24.
There are a few ways to do it.

1) Save it as a MIDI file. I tried this, but it saves as a format 0, and
seq24 can't Import or Open it... It also says it's a single track, but it
should have 16 tracks as far as I know.

2) Record it through my MIDI input on my sound card. I tried this, but it
all goes into one seq24 loop.

3) Something I haven't thought of yet.

I transferred one of my old songs by recording each channel independantly,
for each section. So I recorded the three varying drum loops into three
loops in seq24, and manually aligned them. Then I recorded the three
varying bass lines into three other seq24 loops, and aligned them. And so
on, for all of the channels I used in this song. That's great, but this
will take a really long time to record each individual instrument/MIDI
track into its own loop, one at a time, manually aligning them.

Is there any way I can dump from my sequencer and record into seq24, using
one loop per MIDI channel? My sequencer has 16 "tracks" which is one per
channel. But seq24 only has one MIDI input, which is fine, but the loops
either record or they don't; they currently can't specify what MIDI
channel of the input device to listen on. Well, this is what I assume from
playing around with it and (actually reading) the documentation. Am I
wrong? And if not, has this been requested, and shot down, before? If so,
I assume there is a technical reason for rejection, and I'd be interested
to know what it is.

If there is any way to do it, even with a command-line app to dump to a
file or something, I'd love to know because I want to migrate away from
hardware as quickly as possible, and retire this blue beast once and for
all.

Dana