Slice region by note length?

[Karl K]

Hi sorry if this is in the wrong place but for a while now I've been trying to find a way to split or slice a midi region so that on the main arrange page each midi note (playing in mono) has its own region and I can see when a midi note is being played without opening any windows. Does anyone know if this is possible?

[Danny Wyatt]

Other than doing it manually, I don't think you can do that. What is the specific goal?

[Karl K]

For example, let's say I have an audio region that is playing the kick and I use control d to replace that kick using the drum replacer. I am then given one long region containing all the midi notes tha kick plays. I want to split the region so that each midi note is in it's own region so I can see them clearly on the arrange page.

[David Nahmani]

No, that's not possible.

[Atlas007]

In a one shot command, I don’t think so.

Going through a macro command software (such as Keyboard Maestro), that could be somewhat automated, but that would imply quite a bite of tinkering. That might be worth it if what you describe is something that has to be repeated enough to justify such resource investment…

[David Nahmani]

In a one shot command, I don’t think so.

Going through a macro command software (such as Keyboard Maestro), that could be somewhat automated, but that would imply quite a bite of tinkering. That might be worth it if what you describe is something that has to be repeated enough to justify such resource investment…

Actually that made me think that even manually with a little work using a 1 pixel Marquee selection, the Right arrow key to go to the next note and delete key to cut, just press those two keys in a sequence until you cut all the notes:

 

1. Command-click somewhere over the first note to create a 1 pixel wide marquee selection.

2. Press Right arrow key twice to go to the beginning of the next note.

3. Press delete to cut.

... then repeat #2 and #3.

 

[polanoid]

Ha, I just thought of a method that does this without performing a repetetive task like David proposes. Convoluted it definitely is, but it's kind of fun to try things like this:

1) copy your MIDI Region to a Software Instrument track that contains an Instrument that plays only Sine Waves without any release phase in its Amp Envelope (the empty Multi Sampler will do this)

2) Bounce that Region in Place

3) Duplicate the bounced audio region to a new Audio Track

4) Remove Silence from the bounced region (I tried successfully with these settings: Threshold -7 dB, all others 0,0 seconds)

5) Switch Drag Mode to No Overlap

6) drag the audio regions created in step 4) over the region created in step 2)

7) Press backspace - this will delete all the non-silent parts of the audio region and will only leave the silent parts

8) Select all resulting "silent" regions and shorten them a tiny little bit just to make sure their end does not overlap the following note, see next step

9) Drag the silent regions over the original MIDI Region

10) Press Backspace to delete them

This should leave you with the MIDI Notes each in a separate region.

[David Nahmani]

Ha, I just thought of a method that does this without performing a repetetive task like David proposes. Convoluted it definitely is, but it's kind of fun to try things like this:

1) copy your MIDI Region to a Software Instrument track that contains an Instrument that plays only Sine Waves without any release phase in its Amp Envelope (the empty Multi Sampler will do this)

2) Bounce that Region in Place

3) Duplicate the bounced audio region to a new Audio Track

4) Remove Silence from the bounced region (I tried successfully with these settings: Threshold -7 dB, all others 0,0 seconds)

5) Switch Drag Mode to No Overlap

6) drag the audio regions created in step 4) over the region created in step 2)

7) Press backspace - this will delete all the non-silent parts of the audio region and will only leave the silent parts

8) Select all resulting "silent" regions and shorten them a tiny little bit just to make sure their end does not overlap the following note, see next step

9) Drag the silent regions over the original MIDI Region

10) Press Backspace to delete them

This should leave you with the MIDI Notes each in a separate region.

SO CREATIVE! I love it. I love when you find workaround solutions like these which really require twisting your mind. Thank you polanoid !!

[polanoid]

My pleasure You know, ever since I connected my TR 606 to a Boss DS-1 when I was a kid and was blown away by the resulting (to my ears at least ) powerful sound I'm aware that when using technology to make music it's often more fun and give you better results if you think outside the box rather than staying inside it

[Karl K]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try them now.