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Lesson 9: Importing a MIDI File into a Style

In previous lessons, you constructed a segment based on MIDI data. This segment consists of continuous data, largely in sequence tracks, that sounds exactly the same each time it is played.

This lesson will show you how to create a style, which is a collection of note patterns that can be combined in different ways each time the segment is played.

You can build a style in two ways:

In this lesson, you will use only the first method. You will keep all 13 measures of the imported DemoMIDI file in one piece, so you can easily compare it to the DemoMIDI segment. However, a style is usually made up of numerous short patterns, which are typically two to four measures long.

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