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  1. probably he just started using the program, and had not yet discovered the three square buttons residing in bottom right corner . . . one button displays dual left/right channels. edit (for clarification) : the "small" wave form, displaying on top (appx ¾ inch in height) of the mdi . . . represents all tracks within the specific sound file. the program, at default, displays the top small wave form and also displays a much larger bottom wave form (appx 6 inches in height) . . . this bottom wave form is also comprised of the same "all" tracks. by clicking on the button i referred to earlier . . . the wave form can be split into separate left/right (stereo) channels. once you are viewing the separate dual channels . . . they might appear identical but, in fact, there are minute differences in appearance. btw . . . pls do not type in all CAPS . . . as it is considered "yelling" within the internet community. hope this has helped you.
  2. first off . . . i am new to this forum . . . am also new to nch products/software of australia. this is my first post here in the forum. as such, guess i am answering your query a bit late . . . hopefully someone else will benefit from this reply, in the future. i have just finished downloading free/basic wavepad . . . this software can do what you are asking. i have not used their program switch . . . so i cannot assist in that venue. first of all i would suggest you to keep the original *.mid files in safe place . . . and work only with copies. accidents happen . . . even with professionals and even with the best operating systems money can buy. speaking of os . . . i run win-xp (sp3). as an after-thought . . . if you still have switch installed and still having problems with it . . . you might uninstall switch and reboot . . . before installing wavepad. now, download / install the free/basic version of wavepad from http://www.nch.com.au/software/index.html. i declined the add-ons during install . . . installing only wavepad (ver 4.03). if you prefer allowing the add-ons to be installed . . . make sure the install utility can access the internet. start the program . . . go to file/open . . . select one of the *.mid file copies. the process will be slow . . . after all, the program is not really designed to accept *.mid files. i suspect it is converting the midi format (digital) into a raw wav format (analog) during this interim. note : the whole windows os will seem to be freezing up . . . but just that the "redraw" of windows is being allocated to wavepad resources. within 15-20 seconds the "white screen of death" will disappear and you will, again, be in control. this behavior will continue while wavepad attempts to open the file. i suggest not doing anything else . . . simply wait for the file to open. keep watching the small interface progress bar . . . once it reaches 90% . . . there will be no further progress. at that point, click the "cancel" button in that small interface. 15-20 seconds later, an error pops up : "wavepad could not open this file properly . . . it may be corrupted or in an unsupported format." . . . click ok. you will notice, in fact, the midi file has opened . . . and avails itself to being edited as you wish. when you have finished with your edit . . . or simply wanted to open/save . . . go up to file/save_as . . . and save in *.wav format. well . . . i, myself, chose *.mp3 format. the file i tried opening was a 14k midi file . . . which took appx 2min . . . whereas a similar *.mp3 file, 4mb in size, will take only 20 seconds to open. if your file is, say, 140k rather than 14k . . . might take as long as 20 minutes to open. again, this is using free/basic wavepad program . . . not the switch program. cheers, mate. p.s. as a footnote . . . when saving your file . . . i remember wavepad installed an add-on (mp3enc) to execute the "save_as" procedure. and, to do so, it needed to harness the add-on from the internet. so . . . perhaps you should be connected to the internet when working this program.
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