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Splitting a MIDI in BB etc? #542181 06/21/19 07:57 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,246 WEST MIDLANDS, UK sixchannel OP Veteran
OP sixchannel Veteran Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,246 WEST MIDLANDS, UK	I tend to use RTs or in house BB midi instruments when building up an SGU. As per my profile in Soundcloud BUT - I am working on a tune that needs an impossible drum track for BB. Its very unique. HOWEVER, I do have a midi file of it (multi track I believe) that has a useable drum track. Can I split it in BB and if so - how? Then I would bin all the tracks other than the drums and use RTs for the rest of the 'band'. I do hope that I'm not pointed at RB as my little grey cells just can't even fathom why midis don't play in it, when they are perfect in BB, just not split . Cheers ian Old Guys Rule.The older I get,the better I was! BB2023 ULTRA, 1013, Win 7 and 10 ALL TRACKS - https://app.box.com/s/501rnzrbadng1elvi45hbf7y08kl5oxp SOUNDCLOUD-tracks using BB- http://soundcloud.com/sixchannel Videos- https://youtube.com/user/Sixchannel1

Re: Splitting a MIDI in BB etc? sixchannel #542193 06/21/19 08:53 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Charlie Fogle Veteran C Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 8,119 South Carolina	There are blank utility styles that may help you split your drum kit. I would create a BIAB song with the utility blank kit and build your drum kit split among the channels and render and export a stereo track you've mixed by panning, volume and reverb. Import that audio file you mixed into a new BIAB song and change the audio file to a Performance Track and use it for your song instead of a RealDrums Style. If you open the midi file and all the drums import combined and as a single file on the Melody or Soloist Channel, do the following to copy and move the individual drum kit pieces: Edit\Copy Special...\Copy/Move Tracks... A window will open that will allow you to select each of the 16 midi channels and move them to the various BIAB mixer channels. I've never done it but that's where I'd start. Hope it works for you. Charlie BIAB Ultra Pak+ 2024:RB 2024, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.

Re: Splitting a MIDI in BB etc? Charlie Fogle #542218 06/21/19 11:30 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP sixchannel Veteran Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,246 WEST MIDLANDS, UK	Thanks Charlie What I was meaning is that the midi is several tracks only one of which is the midi drum track. I would bin all other tracks, just leaving the midi drum track, (hopefully in 'drums' in the mixer window) and populating the rest of the blank style with RTs. Old Guys Rule.The older I get,the better I was! BB2023 ULTRA, 1013, Win 7 and 10 ALL TRACKS - https://app.box.com/s/501rnzrbadng1elvi45hbf7y08kl5oxp SOUNDCLOUD-tracks using BB- http://soundcloud.com/sixchannel Videos- https://youtube.com/user/Sixchannel1

Re: Splitting a MIDI in BB etc? sixchannel #542240 06/21/19 12:29 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Teunis Expert Joined: Dec 2016 Posts: 1,169 Gold Coast, Queensland, Austra...	Did you check the MIDI output video mentioned by Callie on June 7th 2019. Forum reply No. #539890. There is an option in the MIDI save that puts individual drums on different tracks. Is this what you meant? There is also an option to save individual tracks (if I understood correctly). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcRA_m0QZs Tony Last edited by Teunis; 06/21/19 12:49 PM. HP i7-4770 16GB 1TB SSD, Win 10 Home, Focusrite 2i2 3rd Gen, Launchkey 61, Maton CW80, Telecaster, Ovation Elite TX, Yamaha Pacifica 612 BB 2022(912) RB 2022(2), CakeWalk, Reaper 6, Audacity, Melodyne 5 Editor, Izotope Music Production Suite 4.1

Re: Splitting a MIDI in BB etc? sixchannel #542267 06/21/19 02:26 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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silvertones Veteran Joined: May 2003 Posts: 8,021 Rio Grande Valley, Texas	Just open it in any Daw as a type1 midi file, delete the tracks you don't want. Remove the drum track as a midi type 1. Delete the drum track in biab and import the other drum part. RB can do this. What throws most folks is Type 1 vs type 0 John ESI Gigaport HD+ Lenovo Turion II /4 Gig Ram/ Win7x64 be 15.6" Monitor "The only Band is a Real Band" www.wintertexaninfo.com/BANDS/JohnnyD.php

Re: Splitting a MIDI in BB etc? sixchannel #542275 06/21/19 03:57 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Noel96 Veteran Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 18,964 Australia	Ian, Unless I've missed something and I'm not understanding your post correctly, here's how I'd do what you want... 1. Identify which midi track is the drum track, it's usually on midi channel 10. As you probably already know, this can be done by loading in the midi file then using the green SEQ button to open a window that allows users to identify the individual midi channels in the file. Unless you specified otherwise, the midi file will load onto the Melody track. 2. Still in the SEQ window, left-click on the "Edit" column "..." and delete each channel sequentially except the drum channel. 3. At this point the Melody track will contain just the Drum Midi. 4. If your song does not use the Melody track, simply leave the drum midi here and it will play from here. If you don't hear the drums after deleting the other tracks, then this means that you will need to set the Melody track to midi channel 10 -- found under "Options \| Preferences \| MIDI Channels". 5. Lastly, if you want to put the drums on any other track, as Charlie Fogle has mentioned, use the "Edit\Copy Special...\Copy/Move Tracks..." options. Regards, Noel MY SONGS... Audiophile BIAB 2024 audios on Soundcloud

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