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"Split notes" and names of drum bits and pieces
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:12 pm
by sholland
When I use "split notes" to break a drum track into it's component parts in the tracks windows, the parts pitch names appear in the names field. It would be convenient if names like "acoustic snare" and "cow bell" appeared. I followed the advice on the famous patch names thread and now names appear in the drum editor instead of pitches, but not in the tracks window when I split notes.
Does anyone have a way to change this?
Re: "Split notes" and names of drum bits and piece
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:50 am
by RJ Wade Music
sholland wrote:When I use "split notes" to break a drum track into it's component parts in the tracks windows, the parts pitch names appear in the names field. It would be convenient if names like "acoustic snare" and "cow bell" appeared. I followed the advice on the famous patch names thread and now names appear in the drum editor instead of pitches, but not in the tracks window when I split notes.
Does anyone have a way to change this?
Hi sholland,
Unfortunately, DP does not capture those names when you "split notes" I too have tried many times to do this after working on a single track drum part. I usually have to rename the tracks individually to reflect the sounds' name.
RJ
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:35 am
by Billster
When you split notes, use the dialog box field to assign the split notes to a new track named "-----" and fill in the name you want for the track.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:58 pm
by RJ Wade Music
Billster wrote:When you split notes, use the dialog box field to assign the split notes to a new track named "-----" and fill in the name you want for the track.
Hey Billster,
I've done that too
However, you cannot have the track to be split automatically name: Kick, Snare, Hats, Toms, Cymbals, when you convert it from a multi-part MIDI track to a single MIDI note track.
For example, If you're working on a drum part that has the following:
Kick, Rim, Snare, Hats, Toms (L, M ,H), and Cymbals (Left and Right).
The resulting split notes will be 9 new MIDI tracks. The Names on those tracks will read as follows: split notes-1 (Bb2), split notes-1 (Ab2) and so on.
What we are saying is that it would be nice if DP recognized the note name or pitch for a drum part and automatically assigned the name.
RJ
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:02 am
by Billster
Yeah RJ, that would be convenient, but you would need an intermediate step of code to tell the system that "this split notes operation is for drum tracks". Otherwise if you were doing something like splitting a melody from chords in a solo piano rendering, the melody would be named for drum sounds
I'm missing something about assigning a "patch name" to a note value. I don't use the drum editor window.