Reason/Cakewalk/etc

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:45 am

I'm curious if there are import filters for midi channels? I have many midi tracks of backing drums, and I'd like to get them into a drum program that has real drum sounds.

I've tried a few different programs, but the UI's are all the same, and are irritating to work with. (I'd rather work in notation) So I was hoping any of the sound softwares could do such a thing?

Asrale · Post by **Asrale** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:21 pm

You mean like a piano roll editor? I know Cakewalk's Sonar package has that, you using something different?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:17 am

If you find a program that lets you notate drums, I would LOVE to hear about it.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:11 am

I do, it's an old midi editor from Win95 days. You set channel 10, non-mixed, and start dropping notes. Each note is a seperate piece on the drumkit (even has cowbells and crap). Problem is, it's midi. It sounds ok once you lay guitar over it, but it could definitely be better. With all these newfangled apps out there for making music, I was hoping one of them would be able to import midi.

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:11 am

I remember that program, I think it predates Win95 too - I'm positive we had it on our old 486 running Win 3.11.

The big problem with MIDI was that hardly any soundcards had decent synths and by the time they did, PCs were powerful enough to not need MIDI for music.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:14 pm

Oh yea, it's completely 3.11

But it runs fine in 2k.

This is a shame..I have 40-odd great drum tracks of songs I can play, but it seems I'm stuck with them. I really don't see myself manually converting them with ..whatever is the drum package of the year(What is the drum package of choice, if I can derail my own thread?).