Fun Midi Question!

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Ohhh...

The "Fun" part of the subject lured you in only to realize that it is just a dull question...

Heh.

Drum Tracks: I create a drum track, set up the rhythm over the click track and do my fills, and etc...

Now, i'm generally happy with my drum track. Only, hmm. That damn bongo is too soft, and the snare needs to chill out a bit.

How the hell do I mix the percussives individually in a single MIDI drum track?!?

Your gracious and humble grasshopper,

Blind Cowboy...
 
The best way I've found is to manipulate the velocity information for the individual notes that need to be changed. It would be nice if there were some kind of "mixer" to control the volume of individual voices. Many drum machines have this capability onboard, but I've never seen one that provides a way to control this via MIDI.
 
Yep. That sounds good.

Now, how do I control the Velocity in Cubase per instrument?
 
I don't know from Cubase, but many MIDI editors have a representation of a piano keyboard along one edge of the notation window, and clicking on a "key" (or in some cases, double-clicking) selects all notes in the track with that note number. Then you can manipulate those notes as a group.

Hope that makes sense. It would help if I knew something about Cubase! :D
 
Well,

A "Drum Track" in Cubase is specifically that. Instead of the keyboard on the left, it gives a list of each of the percussive devices that it can trigger. I tried double click, right/left click, and menu items, but there doesn't seem to be a way (that I know yet) to select this in Cubase. As with everything in this package, once you find it, you slap yourself for not seeing it before.

Any Cubase info on what Don was talking about would be much appreciated.

Again,

Thanks Don.
 
You can do it in Cubase. Go into the MIDI step editor and at the bottom of the screen you will probably see some spikes that go up...this is controller information that by default should be representing velocity. If it's not, you can switch it to velocity.

Now there may be an easier way to do this that I don't know about, but what I did to bring out my bass drum in my MIDI track was to use the selection tool to select all of the bass drum hits, then I think I right clicked on the selected group (if not I am pretty sure you can find the same command up in the MIDI menu on the toolbar) and selected something to the effect of Velocity, or Set Velocity or Change Velocity....you get the picture. you can then set a number and they will all change to that value. So for your bongo you would want to increase it, then decrease all your snare drums. I'm not in front of my DAW at the moment so I hope I am close in the names of the commands. Even if not if you poke around for a minute you sill see what I am talking about.

Hope this helps out.
 
See?

That's what i'm talking about. Ah, i'm not in front of mine either. But, I will be tonight, so i'll give it a whirl..

Checked out your site. 3 piece power trio bassist. It's fun to be the "Techy" in the band.

I've had 3 bassist(s) that there eyes glaze over when I show them a computer. Two drummer that got brutally offended, and a singer keeps asking for a plug in that will make his voice "fatter". Fatter's a nice after thought, but he really needs a program that keeps him in tune...

Thanks for all the help.

Blind Cowboy...
 
Glad to be of help...

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Your speaks aren't busted...there are some effects at the start...
 
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