Logic MIDI Drums

[NigelVonLlama]

I have MIDI files of drums that I'd like to rework. It's easy to change the velocity of the hits, but I haven't been able to find a way to change the pan. For instance, I like to pan hi hats hard left and ride to the right, however Logic seems to have them pretty close to the middle. Anyone have experience editing MIDI in Logic?

[gecko zzed]

The easiest way that I can think of is to split the drum track into its different bits and put them on different tracks, e.g. kick on one track, hi-hat on another and so on. That way you can pan each track to your heart's content.

[guitarplayr82]

Good advice gecko. The easiest way to do this is to select the MIDI track, go to the MIDI menu, and hit Separate MIDI Events > By Note Pitch. In my version of Logic this is kinda buggy... you have to create a new software instrument track for each note pitch and then drag each note pitch track into the a new software instrument track or else the drum tracks will still be grouped together and act as one.

[NigelVonLlama]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot. I did find a plugin that let me edit the MIDI, but it only captured the hits, with no envelopes.

I think I'll try splitting up the track. I'm used to mixing drums multitrack anyways. Maybe it will sound more realistic and less like a drum machine!?