recording midi files with click track

[hillside audio]

I really need some help in sorting out this problem as i’m new to the midi thing and i don’t know where to start.Ive been a pro drummer for 20 odd years and have always wanted to get into the midi side of things but never really had the need to but now i have been asked to join a band who want to use midi files and i have put myself forward to sort out the midi side of things.I have some midi files at hand but what I really need to do is to have the midi tracks panned to one side and a click track on the other and then save the files as a wav and transfer them to cd or md.I have downloaded tons of demo software but none of them seem to do what I need. Is their any software that can do this for me without getting to technical? I know theirs a lot of cleaver folk on here so please help me out.

 

[gecko zzed]

What are you playing the midi files through?

You need some sort of midi editing program.

I'm not sure that the default click is pannable as such.

However, what I would do as an alternative is to load the midi file into a midi program. I would create a click track using channel 10 (i.e. the general midi drum track) using a drum sound (e.g. hi-hat or snare rim), and pan that hard left. I would pan all the other instruments hard right. I would then record this into the program as an audio file.

 

[Dags]

What software are you using at the moment?
Logic, Cubase and Sonar (probably a few others) all have pretty advanced MIDI facilities...even Protools can handle MIDI nowdays

Also, what are you using as the sound source for the MIDI information?
If you are using an internal soundblaster card or quicktime instruments
I don't know if you can separate the click from the rest of the audio by panning alone as they are generated by the one device.
(Someone more experienced than I using soundblaster may prove me wrong)

I generally source my MIDI sounds from an external MIDI module/keyboard. I have the option of then fiddling with tempo, instruments & everything else before recording the audio output from the module back into Logic.
This way I can keep the music separate from the click until I want to combine them (if I need to combine them).
I can then pan the music signal hard left and the click from the computer software via soundcard hard right and record this
separated audio onto DAT or back into the computer for burning to CD.

BTW - my business name is Hillside Sound
Pleased to meet you!

Dags

 

[Dags]

I would create a click track using channel 10 (i.e. the general midi drum track) using a drum sound (e.g. hi-hat or snare rim), and pan that hard left. I would pan all the other instruments hard right. I would then record this into the program as an audio file.

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[ssscientist]

Do these midi files contain information for melodic instruments or just drums and percussion?

If your band expects to play along with melodic instruments they probably will tire quickly of the downright weenieness of any soundcards general midi soundset.

Here a link to a Native Instrumets program called Bandstand --- http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=bandstand. It's a midi file creator/player with a much better soundset.