Newbie needs help with Chord Track and importing Progressions

[Kodokushi]

Howdy fellow Waveformers ... ,

i'm new to Waveform and just discovered the ingenious Chord Track.

I couldn't yet figure out a way to import Progressions from midi files into it.

If this is not possible, is there perhaps another way to achieve this - without having to enter the chords / progressions manually?

Thank you in advance

Kodo

[pough]

By "progression" do you mean what Waveform calls a progression (eg i iv i v) or a full song with all its parts from start to finish?

They're not stored as MIDI, nor are they stored as full songs. The progression is one type of file. How it's played is another. And both those things get put together in the Chord Track (progression) and MIDI clip (chord pattern or bass pattern). Both file types are XML format.

There's no way that I know of to import MIDI to either of those things. You might be able to make your own XML files and use them if you save them to the right place.

This is what a progression looks like:

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<PRESET name="Progression: Free Fallin" tags="Pattern|Progression" type="pattern"
        subtype="Progression" presetVersion="2" factory="1">
  <PROGRESSION>
    <PROGRESSIONITEM name="i"/>
    <PROGRESSIONITEM name="iv"/>
    <PROGRESSIONITEM name="i"/>
    <PROGRESSIONITEM name="v"/>
  </PROGRESSION>
</PRESET>

This is what a pattern looks like:

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<PRESET name="Chord: Whole Note" tags="Pattern|Chord" type="pattern"
        subtype="Chord" presetVersion="2" factory="1">
  <CHORDPATTERN name="Whole Note">
    <BAR length="4">
      <NOTE start="0" length="4" velocity="127"/>
    </BAR>
  </CHORDPATTERN>
</PRESET>

[edrickblade]

Howdy fellow Waveformers ... ,

i'm new to Waveform and just discovered the ingenious Chord Track.

I couldn't yet figure out a way to import Progressions from midi files into it.

If this is not possible, is there perhaps another way to achieve this - without having to enter the chords / progressions manually?

Thank you in advance

Kodo

Tracktion Waveform chord track is more a creative tool to use it with its own progressions, baselines and arpeggios, it's not like Cubase/StudioOne chord track that can transform imported midi clips, just works with Waveform's own baseline, progressions and arpeggios, although Melodyne recognizes Waveform chords via ARA1.