Slice to midi help...?

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Ill Frequencies
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Slice to midi help...?

Post by Ill Frequencies » Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:12 pm

Ok so I slice my track to midi and it plays back fine, but when I copy this and paste it into a new midi track it doesn't playback?
Well it does but there is just no volume. Probably somthing basic but any help would be appreciated =]

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Re: Slice to midi help...?

Post by speak_onion » Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:11 pm

Ill Frequencies wrote:when I copy this and paste it into a new midi track
Don't understand what you mean by that. What is "this" in that sentence? When you slice to a new MIDI track, it creates a MIDI track for you that has a drum rack containing the pieces of your original audio clip. No need to put anything into a new MIDI track. Unless I'm not getting what you're trying to do.

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Re: Slice to midi help...?

Post by remarkable » Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:00 pm

When you say there is no volume do you mean it is low, or do you mean there is no sound whatsoever? If the latter can you see the LEDs jumping?

Mark

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Re: Slice to midi help...?

Post by Ill Frequencies » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:17 am

speak_onion wrote:
Don't understand what you mean by that. What is "this" in that sentence? When you slice to a new MIDI track, it creates a MIDI track for you that has a drum rack containing the pieces of your original audio clip. No need to put anything into a new MIDI track. Unless I'm not getting what you're trying to do.
Sorry not explained very well.
For example I have clip A then slice to midi which will then give me clip B then I arrange clip B around so its nothing like clip A.
Then I would like to use something more similar to clip B then clip A but don't want to go through the whole process of slicing clip A.
So I will then copy clip B and paste it into a new midi track but there is no volume when i try to play it back,
it will only playback with volume when its in the original track that it gets put into after I slice.
Hope that explains a bit better :)
remarkable wrote:When you say there is no volume do you mean it is low, or do you mean there is no sound whatsoever? If the latter can you see the LEDs jumping?

Mark
There is no sound whatsoever. I can see it bouncing up and down in the volume meter but there are no send A, B or pan knobs.

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Re: Slice to midi help...?

Post by sounddevisor » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:04 pm

Ill Frequencies -

It sounds like you are copying the MIDI clip, but not the associated rack that actually produces the sounds.

Rather than copying clip B to a new MIDI track, why don't you just copy it to another slot in the same track - then it should play back properly. Otherwise, you need to copy the instrument along with the clip - click in the track title area, and the instrument (or rack) should show up in the clip area at the bottom of the screen, option-drag that to your new MIDI track and you should be good to go.

- sounddevisor

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Re: Slice to midi help...?

Post by speak_onion » Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:02 pm

sounddevisor wrote:Ill Frequencies -

It sounds like you are copying the MIDI clip, but not the associated rack that actually produces the sounds.

Rather than copying clip B to a new MIDI track, why don't you just copy it to another slot in the same track - then it should play back properly. Otherwise, you need to copy the instrument along with the clip - click in the track title area, and the instrument (or rack) should show up in the clip area at the bottom of the screen, option-drag that to your new MIDI track and you should be good to go.

- sounddevisor
Yeah, this. Or if you want the original clip, why not just play the original audio clip?

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Re: Slice to midi help...?

Post by Ill Frequencies » Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:49 am

sounddevisor wrote:Ill Frequencies -

It sounds like you are copying the MIDI clip, but not the associated rack that actually produces the sounds.

Rather than copying clip B to a new MIDI track, why don't you just copy it to another slot in the same track - then it should play back properly. Otherwise, you need to copy the instrument along with the clip - click in the track title area, and the instrument (or rack) should show up in the clip area at the bottom of the screen, option-drag that to your new MIDI track and you should be good to go.

- sounddevisor
thanks that worked I just dragged the rack into the new midi track =]

thanks!

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