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Dodo56 · Joined: 11 Nov 2017 Posts: 14

I have a legal software Musescore on my notebook, providing also MIDI format of selected songs. Trying to download them to the KRONOS2 thru the USB on the TouchScreen was appeared the message "Illegal SMF data". Can somebody help me?

mikeyd · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:30 pm Post subject:

This is an old post but read through it. It may help.

There is also a section in the manual that explains it.
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=69623&sid=968ea60ee106464eba554e4bfd75e8d9

Here is another article for the M3 that may be helpful on the KARMA Lab forums.

http://karma-lab.wikidot.com/korg-m3:configuring-the-m3-to-play-general-midi-files

Dodo56 · Joined: 11 Nov 2017 Posts: 14

First, I have the file extension .wpl . It is OK?
Second, I read that I need to format my USB (FAT32). It is correct?

Thanks!

pete.m · Senior Member Joined: 05 Apr 2013 Posts: 484

I have used Musescore successfully, although in the opposite direction to you - i.e., to transfer and print out my Kronos songs and print them out as sheet music - and so my knowledge is limited.
I think that the formatting will be okay, but I don't think that your file extension is right - a .wpl is a Windows file used for multimedia playlists.

Take a look at this Musescore-related page - https://musescore.org/en/handbook/file-formats. I can't see .wpl mentioned there, but it does indicate the file extensions you should use in order to export midi files.