This could be a complete newb question since this is one of my first attempts to import a midi file that was recorded using an application other than Ableton or Cubase.

A buddy of mine who's a fairly decent keyboardist wanted to learn how to use ableton, so I had him send me a midi recording of himself on a keyboard. (I'm not sure what app he used to do so.) I did a simple drag-and-drop onto a midi track in Ableton and assigned an instrument to it. However, when I play it back only some notes are being played. As far as I can tell, it has something to do with human error while playing live -- every note that was hit dead-on timing wise plays fine, but notes that were played just a tad off don't play back at all. For instance, if I zoom in close, I can see that most notes don't fall exactly on the nearest 16th or 32nd note. I'm first of all wondering if my speculation is correct and secondly if there is some automated way to fix this. It's a three-minute recording, so it would be a pain to adjust each note individually. I know Cubase has some auto-correction functionality when recording live, but I'm not sure what to do with a file that has already been recorded.

Thanks!!!

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