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Thanks for the response

There is probably no need for you to "cleanse" it for me. I can just remake the pattern in an new track, so it is fresh, and it should probably work fine.

Is there a reason why this garbage data would show up? I'm making MIDIs in Anvil Studio. I've been messing around with the notes volume quite a lot, so perhaps the settings didn't quite dissapear?
This extra data seems to be present in the whole track. Even deleting all the notes leaves all the garbage data still inside,so a new fresh track will have to be remade. Not really a problem since it is just a repeating pattern, but it could be a problem if it appears in more important tracks.

I would not suggest that any of the data is 'garbage', merely totally superfluous.

I've no idea what the 'sequencer specific' data is, it's not SYSEX. I assume your manual will say. There's not too much of that, and once it's done, then it stops.

The part of the file down to Meta Time 7680 seems OK, just normal notes etc, but then all the Pitch Wheel data starts, and it's just a flood of that, mostly all exactly the same, incl the Meta Time, so it's doing nothing useful. I'd wonder if there was something wrong with the Pitch Wheel, or al least the sensitivity of it which must be set to extreme at least. Maybe as soon as you touch the PW, then the flood of data starts, and just keeps going. Can you disable the PW, or reduce (massively) the sensitivity?

We had another case a while back where someone was getting masses of spurious data - again I think from PW - but this was happening in the middle of playing and was causing problems with the playback. You don't seem to get that, as it's happening at the end. So it seems?

Geoff

The most I did with pitch is move notes accros the "pitch lines" (or however you call them), and I do that quite frequently, so I kind of doubt that this is the reason. I do faintly remember missclicking something somewhere, but don't know exactly what. Granted, that may not be what caused this problem at all.

Still, I did what I said in the last post, and remade a new track from scratch and now the file size is only 20kB, so that solution worked. i doubt this problem was a bug, but was probably some error I made.

Thanks for you help

I understand the problem is resolved, but in case Geoff or anyone else is curious about Sequencer Specific meta events...

A Sequencer Specific meta event is a similar concept to a System Exclusive message:

The contents of either a System Exclusive message or a Sequencer Specific meta event begin with a 1-byte (or if the first byte is zero, a 3-byte) Manufacturer ID. The contents after the Manufacturer ID are defined by that manufacturer.

A System Exclusive message is sent to the MIDI output device. A Sequencer Specific meta event (like all meta events in a MIDI file) is only visible to the software that reads the MIDI file, it doesn't send anything to the MIDI output device.

According to the Anvil Studio User's Guide, "Anvil Studio stores Sequencer-Specific MIDI events to remember things like links to audio files and some staff note properties."

(Looking at the example MIDI files on the Anvil Studio website and Tadej's example MIDI file in this thread, it appears Anvil Studio's Sequencer Specific meta events' contents always begin with hex 05 0F. However, hex 05 is the Manufacturer ID for Passport Designs. I don't know if this means Anvil Studio uses the same format of Sequencer Specific meta events that some Passport Designs software uses.)