Midi data from a PC4 song?

[ehand]

I play a Kurzweil PC4.  I like it in many ways, however I'm having a problem with midi data from the song files.  When I go into storage, it only gives the option to export as a .PC4 file.  It does not give me the option to convert to a .MID file, or even a .SNG file (as my old PC3 did).  So I gave up on this, and decided to simply play a song file through the midi usb into my computer DAW.  However, it will not send the midi events data through the usb.  To confirm this, I played a song live from the keyboard through the usb midi.  My DAW captures it with no problems.  To summarize, my computer will not recognize midi data from a song file being played on the PC4, but will accept the midi data as long as I'm playing live from the keyboard.  What's the deal?  I never, ever had this problem with my old PC3, which no longer works.  Do any of you have information on this that I apparently don't have?

[Mighty Motif Max]

On 9/23/2023 at 3:51 PM, ehand said:

I play a Kurzweil PC4.  I like it in many ways, however I'm having a problem with midi data from the song files.  When I go into storage, it only gives the option to export as a .PC4 file.  It does not give me the option to convert to a .MID file, or even a .SNG file (as my old PC3 did).  So I gave up on this, and decided to simply play a song file through the midi usb into my computer DAW.  However, it will not send the midi events data through the usb.  To confirm this, I played a song live from the keyboard through the usb midi.  My DAW captures it with no problems.  To summarize, my computer will not recognize midi data from a song file being played on the PC4, but will accept the midi data as long as I'm playing live from the keyboard.  What's the deal?  I never, ever had this problem with my old PC3, which no longer works.  Do any of you have information on this that I apparently don't have?

Post this in the regular PC4 thread.

I had this issue when I wanted to use a DAW to edit some backing tracks I made on the PC4 - I ended up needing to fiddle with some of the utility settings to get the start/stop synced with the DAW and some other steps I don't recall, but I did get it working and was able to record all the song tracks simultaneously to my DAW as midi for editing.

 

[ehand]

Thanks Max!  Its good to know that you were able to send out the midi data from your PC4 song files.  I have a very outdated DAW.  However, I'll look for the right parameters and try again.