Audio to MIDI trigger

[jgourd]

I am looking for a VST or DX plugin that I can insert on an Audio track and have it trigger MIDI events.

I basically need to replace a badly recorded Kick Drum with a MIDI kick drum from a sampler.

Does such a beast exist?

[knightfly]

Is the kick on its own track? If so, it will be easier. If not, still probably doable. I just opened a file in Cake9 that has both MIDI and audio tracks, the drums are audio - In Cake, you select the material you want to replace, drums are perfect for this - then you click "edit/audio/extract timing" - this brings up a window with several choices - it lets you set trigger level, minimum pulse width in milliseconds, and has a check box for "convert to MIDI note#" - within that option, you can either set it to insert MIDI notes with all the same velocity, or changing velocity relative to pulse level.

If the drums are on the same track, it would be a lot harder - first, you'd have to reverse polarity on one track to drop out things that weren't panned center (assuming your kick IS...) then, you'd have to selectively EQ out all but the thump and maybe beater slap of the kick, so you arrive at a drum track that has the kick at a higher level than the rest of the kit - then, you could set the threshold to just above that of the loudest part of the rest of the kit, and replace just those pulses with MIDI note #'s. (Of course, you'd want to do this with a COPY of the drum track, NOT the original) Then, once you had a kick track you liked, you could use it to gate out the old kick from the original track, then run the MIDI kick track thru whatever module/software you like and mix it with the rest of the drum track MINUS the old kick.

Like I said, it would be much easier if your kick is already on its own track...

I don't know what software you're using, but if Cake9 can do this, I would think any of its competitors can... Steve

[jgourd]

I found just what I was looking for. There is a plugin called Drumagog that is designed to replace a single drum track with a sampled drum. I tried the demo and it worked PERFECTLY.

[knightfly]

Cool, another happy ending... :=)

[cordura21]

check also BeatBox from mda:

http://homepage.mac.com/golander/.cv...3.zip-link.zip

It is realtime, and the package comes with several other plugins.
Cheers, Andrés