Hi All,
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for the issue that I have, but it looks as near as I can make it.
I have a midi file of a song that that has a 3/4 time signature and I wanted to use this as a back tracking when used with RealBand. The song itself plays beautifully as it stands, but there are two problems that mitigate against it being used in RealBand for backing:
1. The music does not start on a measure (with or without the lead in) and the measure does not fit with 3/4 time either.
2. The file also loads with the default 4/4 time at 120 bpm but modifying these does not make the midi fit the correct measures.
It is almost as if the midi was recorded live.
What I really need to do is to shift the entire midi on to a measure at the beginning of the first beat and then to 'contract' the midi so that it fits the 3/4 measures for a given tempo.
When I set out to do this job I felt like this was really a simple operation to carry out. Well now I'm not sure at all.
I exported the midi to Ableton Live because shifting and stretching were easily available operations in that DAW. But was was unable to do that to all track simultaneously. So I began with the drum track and shifted it to bar 2 (to allow for ant lead-in) and then I easily contracted the midi to fit the correct time signature. If I had been able to do this with all the tracks simultaneously then the job would have now been complete - end of. Unfortunately I had to carry out this operation for all the other tracks, one at a time, and although It didn't take too long, the resulting song was less than impressive with lots of little timing errors that were difficult to work with.
So, I tried another method. I exported the midi to Sonar. The Sonar DAW can time shift midi but it can't stretch it (well not easily). But it could allow me to save it as a type 0 file where all the tracks are merged in to one. I then use this in Ableton to shift and stretch and this had really good results and I suppose I can live with that. But I would like to restore the new midi so that each track had it's own instrument that I can choose appropriately. But I can't seem to do this. I am in the process of giving up and hence this last bid on this forum.
Can anybody suggest a solution to what I can see is, on the face of it, a simple task?
Thanks
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for the issue that I have, but it looks as near as I can make it.
I have a midi file of a song that that has a 3/4 time signature and I wanted to use this as a back tracking when used with RealBand. The song itself plays beautifully as it stands, but there are two problems that mitigate against it being used in RealBand for backing:
1. The music does not start on a measure (with or without the lead in) and the measure does not fit with 3/4 time either.
2. The file also loads with the default 4/4 time at 120 bpm but modifying these does not make the midi fit the correct measures.
It is almost as if the midi was recorded live.
What I really need to do is to shift the entire midi on to a measure at the beginning of the first beat and then to 'contract' the midi so that it fits the 3/4 measures for a given tempo.
When I set out to do this job I felt like this was really a simple operation to carry out. Well now I'm not sure at all.
I exported the midi to Ableton Live because shifting and stretching were easily available operations in that DAW. But was was unable to do that to all track simultaneously. So I began with the drum track and shifted it to bar 2 (to allow for ant lead-in) and then I easily contracted the midi to fit the correct time signature. If I had been able to do this with all the tracks simultaneously then the job would have now been complete - end of. Unfortunately I had to carry out this operation for all the other tracks, one at a time, and although It didn't take too long, the resulting song was less than impressive with lots of little timing errors that were difficult to work with.
So, I tried another method. I exported the midi to Sonar. The Sonar DAW can time shift midi but it can't stretch it (well not easily). But it could allow me to save it as a type 0 file where all the tracks are merged in to one. I then use this in Ableton to shift and stretch and this had really good results and I suppose I can live with that. But I would like to restore the new midi so that each track had it's own instrument that I can choose appropriately. But I can't seem to do this. I am in the process of giving up and hence this last bid on this forum.
Can anybody suggest a solution to what I can see is, on the face of it, a simple task?
Thanks