Recovering trk midi data

[313ryans]

I lost a bunch of data from my tracktion projects from when i upgraded from win7 to windows10. I never exported my projects as midi files. My hard drive was backed up, but the Seagate software has everything unorganized from the recovery.

I am trying to find the midi data from a few songs composed in tracktion. Most of what i do is on hardware...but i had some good stuff only written on the piano roll.

Searching .mid or .trk only finds some useable midi stuff generated by drumcore tk.

Is there an extension, or folder where the midi data is held? I have my wav files and all that, just no midi.

[Stuttaton]

The midi data is contained in the edit file, as far as I can tell.

[313ryans]

nah, it is not there...Everything is chopped up. The edit files just have ???? about the midi files, vsts, etc. I had a glimmer-of-hope-idea that the data is on an old hard drive in my attic

[Stuttaton]

I checked one of my Projects and there are no other files that could contain the midi data. So it has to be in the edit file.

[chico.co.uk]

Midi clips are in the .tracktionedit file, and look like this ;

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<CLIP name="New MIDI Clip" type="midi" start="0.00000000000000000000"
          length="22.00000000000000000000" offset="0.00000000000000000000"
          sync="0" mediaId="3fdbbb/3633fc6" colour="ffff0000" currentTake="0"
          speed="1.00000000000000000000">
      <QUANTISATION/>
      <GROOVE/>
      <MIDISEQUENCE ver="1" channelNumber="1">
        <NOTE p="80" b="4.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="80" b="12.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="77" b="4.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="74" b="12.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="76" b="16.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="84" b="20.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="87" b="24.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="80" b="28.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
        <NOTE p="74" b="28.00000000000000000000" l="1.00000000000000000000"
              v="127" c="0"/>
      </MIDISEQUENCE>
      <PATTERNGENERATOR>
        <PROGRESSION/>
      </PATTERNGENERATOR>
    </CLIP>

[313ryans]

sorry, I had given up hope and walked away from my question. How did you get into the .tracktionedit file?

Anytime I try to get there it just opens up tracktion and only my .wav files and installed VSTs show up.

[chico.co.uk]

Just open it in any kind of text editor. Notepad or notepad++ on windows, textedit on osx, or whatever else you like. They're basically XML files