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If you’ve ever tried to drag MIDI out of Orchestrator and only got the last few bars, here’s the missing piece:
SCORE presets cannot.**
That’s why dragging from a Score usually gives you just the tail end.
Step 1 — Load an ENSEMBLE preset
(Any ensemble works. Scores won’t capture long MIDI.)
Step 2 — Play your full passage into Orchestrator
Instacomposer 3, Scaler, your DAW — anything is fine.
Step 3 — Drag the hand icon
You’ll get full‑length, separated MIDI for each instrument.
Step 4 — Drop those parts into your own template
Swap in your preferred libraries and edit the notes however you want.
This lets you use Orchestrator as a MIDI extractor, not just a phrase generator.
You can:
It’s a powerful workflow — just undocumented.
Here’s a tight, forum‑friendly version you can drop into AIV, Fender Studio, Discord, or anywhere else. It’s short, clear, and immediately useful — the kind of post that gets bookmarked because it solves a problem people didn’t even know they had.
How to Extract Full‑Length MIDI from Opus Orchestrator (Quick Guide)
If you’ve ever tried to drag MIDI out of Orchestrator and only got the last few bars, here’s the missing piece:
**1. Only ENSEMBLE presets can capture long MIDI.
SCORE presets cannot.**
- Ensembles use the real‑time performance engine and store everything they generate.
- Scores are pre‑written patterns and don’t store long passages internally.
That’s why dragging from a Score usually gives you just the tail end.
2. The correct workflow
Step 1 — Load an ENSEMBLE preset
(Any ensemble works. Scores won’t capture long MIDI.)
Step 2 — Play your full passage into Orchestrator
Instacomposer 3, Scaler, your DAW — anything is fine.
Step 3 — Drag the hand icon
You’ll get full‑length, separated MIDI for each instrument.
Step 4 — Drop those parts into your own template
Swap in your preferred libraries and edit the notes however you want.
3. Why this matters
This lets you use Orchestrator as a MIDI extractor, not just a phrase generator.
You can:
- see the exact voicings
- adjust articulations
- rebuild the orchestration with your own sounds
- turn a generated idea into a real template
It’s a powerful workflow — just undocumented.