Splitting out MIDI tracks by note

[Farmer Dave]

This is for personal use, since I use PT for Post, but..........

I have a Roland TD-8 Drum kit here, and it records MIDI in fine, but how does one go about splitting the different not values to different tracks? If I record the drum part in, it's all on the same MIDI track, but I'd like to split that out so kick is on one, Snare another cymbals another, toms, etc..

Maybe this isn't the way it's done by you music afficiando's, but it makes sense that I should be able to do that. Without recording the audio in, I'd have control over mixing the different elements, copying/pasting/looping different components, etc..

Hope fully it's not as mundane as duplicating the track, and manually selecting & deleting what you don't want on the track.

Or am I missing some feature here, like track dependent MIDI filtering?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

In the MIDI menu is an option to Split Notes -- it'll copy notes from an existing MIDI track and place them on new MIDI tracks. I'm hoping for a better implementation one day.

Rail

[subskin]

If you get a copy of BFD by Fxapnsion you can use multiple outs from a single instantiation of the plug. Works and sounds awesome. I believe Battery2 also does/will support multiple outs as well.

This way you don't have to split out midi tracks to get discrete drum parts.

[c-tone]

Yes, the 'Split Notes" command is really poorly implemented, and nearly useless. It is one of the many midi features that is still lacking with Pro Tools that many users complain about. Personally, I don't really do that much midi, so this is one of the few real weak spots in Pro Tools midi that I notice on a regular basis, doing the exact drum machine work that was described above. I was a Digital Performer user, and the way that the "split notes" worked in DP was completely automatic and simple. Click on a track, choose "Split notes", and bam - all new tracks with all the different notes you had split to the new tracks. I am hoping for something this easy.

[Farmer Dave]

In the MIDI menu is an option to Split Notes -- it'll copy notes from an existing MIDI track and place them on new MIDI tracks. I'm hoping for a better implementation one day.

Rail

Thanks Rail, that'll work fine for my layman purposes.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Click on a track, choose "Split notes", and bam - all new tracks with all the different notes you had split to the new tracks. I am hoping for something this easy.

Me too.

Rail

[new engineer]

That doesn't sound so hard.

[spinsong]

the other option is to command shift click on the little keyboard in the midi track the note that you want, and then cut and paste the notes into a new track. did that on an older session. I like the split midi note command though

one note, digidesign keeps upgrading MIDI implementation with each release. who knows if the next release will be a MIDI monster (in a good sense)

audio to MIDI would be a great feature to have, and maybe incorporating it some way into beat detective...
hmm.... note detective.... has a nice ring to it (no trademark infringements suits please lol)