Ran into a new snag, and solved it, both on the same day. That's rare enough, but in this case, after failing to find a fix with Google, I solved it accidentally.
While going through Google, found some solutions, but they must have been obsolete. The same context menus on my window didn't have the same options. It sort of made sense that maybe the midi track needed to be selected, but none of the section's I tried to select made a difference. I was mainly trying to select by right-click, and then looking for the export midi option. The context menu never changed. The "File" menu drop-down offered "Export Midi Clip", but it was grayed out.
Skipping a lot of in-between steps, at one point my finger twitched, the mouse happened to be gliding over the exact right location, and the entire midi track showed up on the bottom row. After the track is visible, the main "File" dropdown menu shows"Export Midi Clip" in dark text, no longer greyed out. I tried saving a midi file, and it worked perfectly.
So here's what's been working for me: I play from the Hammer 88, and record in Ableton. Or, load a "Live Set" from the hard drive. Then I play the melody. Not long, just enough to hear and confirm it's there. THEN, on the column with your active voice (in my case, the MiniGrand_64), left click on the row with a "square" symbol (See images). The song track will show up at the bottom, with the red squiggly line. Now, you can select the drop-down menu "File", and Export to Midi will no longer be grayed out. I'm not sure if you should select the entire track (CTRL-A) before exporting, it seems to work whether you do or not. But it's possible selecting only a portion of the track will only export that portion as a midi file.
And... Google Drive
Kind of a side-issue here, but as long as I'm keeping a journal of my learning experiences, I finally figured out Google Drive. It was stupidly easy, once I quit trying to overcomplicate things.
Due to audio conflicts on my desktop computer - Youtube, several games, Ableton, Windows 10 didn't want to share resources - I wound up getting a small laptop computer that was dedicated to running Ableton. (Yay for Amazon Lightning Deals on used computers!) While that pretty much solved the ongoing battle with audio drivers and hardware settings, it meant file transfers between computers took an extra step. Tonight it finally hit me, no need to do anything fancy. Don't have to 'install' anything stand-alone. Just log in on a browser and drag files into Drive.
Can't believe all that time I've been using USB sticks.
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