How to turn midi into audiofiles
Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 06:13 AM CDT

Hi everyone

Is it possible when using a software pug in such as ez drummer, to record each drum separately and then turn those midi tracks into audio tracks for further mixing ?

In studio 1 it's called exploding to tracks. Then the midi track is duplicated and the result is audio.

Is this possible in garageband.

I've been using gb for a few years now but until recently I never messed with the drums in any way other than putting some mastering effect on everything on the drum track.

But now I want the ability to eq for instance the snare in a different way from the bass drum.

Thanks

Geiri

Re:How to turn midi into audiofiles
Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 06:48 AM CDT

Hi
It should be quite easy.
Are you playing the drum parts via a midi keyboard or dragging ez drummer loops into Garageband?
If you are playing them via MIDI then I usually assign one track to EZ drummer, loop section, then put in the hi hat sections, then duplicate track and record snare and kick drum.
Then I duplicate again and duplicate the snare and kick drum section and delete the kicks from the snare and then delete the snare from the kicks.
So then I've got Trk 1 Hi Hats
Trk 2 Snare
Trk 3 Kick Drum
Then I can apply effects to each track separately.
If you are dragging the loops in from EZ drummer then you should be able to do a similar thing.
Duplicate a load of tracks and then copy and separate each part then.
Hope that is of some help

Re:How to turn midi into audiofiles
Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 03:23 PM CDT

Hi kingbee and thank you.

This makes a lot of sense I've been overthinking this so I didn't see your proposal as a solution. I will try this next time I record something.

And I usually just drag the loops in there and nudge them around to my liking.


Thanks for the fast response.

Geiri

Re:How to turn midi into audiofiles
Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 03:42 PM CDT

I've just dragged a loop from ez drummer into GB and separated the hi hat, snare and bass drum onto their own track.
If you send me a private message via my page ( it's the little envelope symbol under my profile photo) and let me know your e-mail address I can send you the GB file so you can see what it looks like...that's if you haven't sussed it out already
cheers