CAL script: split notes to tracks

Hello out there!
Has anyone gotten the CAL script "split midi notes to tracks" to work? I'm trying all sorts of CAL scripts in the list that work fine but this one will not work. I got it to work way back in Sonar 7 and I was ecstatic about it... but it never worked again in later versions. i would get an error message saying the values were out of range or something to that effect. Now, in my demo of Platinum, it does nothing at all. It seems to go through a quick process but nothing happens.
 
I just want to split a midi drum part up that I played onto one track so I can have access to the separate instruments, each on it's own track. I'm aware of the multi output features offered in most drum soft synths and use that method currently. But sometimes to have all the snare drum hits on one track of midi is more useful, because the snare midi is triggering room mics, overheads, ambient mics etc. it would be nice to be able to render an audio track of all the snare mics together so that any added dynamics etc. would affect all the snare data at once.
 
I also know about other 3rd party apps like "midi split" etc. but it would be nice to do it internally in Sonar. It seems like it would be a simple procedure for a computer DAW to handle. 
 
Anybody out there had any luck with this?
Cheers
JG

I believe that script needs to be run on the LAST track in the project, as it expects the next track to be blank. It blindly creates tracks and cannot if data exists in them. Be sure to move the MIDI into the last project track first.

That's a great bit of info. I made a doc of the info and uploaded along with my other CAl info.

Thanks.

 
Oi!
Okay, I just tested it on my son's computer. He doesn't have any audio hardware or plug ins etc.
It worked fine!
 
Something in my machine must be conflicting with it... I tried disabling all my midi device hardware but it didn't help. What other system related element could cause a CAL script not to work?
* I've seen other posts about this with folks getting the same cal error 14 - value out of range. 
 
JG

Hey Zargg,
No, bouncing the clip doesn't help. I'm just testing it with a single clip anyhow. This script worked instantly when I tried it on my son's machine.. so I don't think it's the method but rather a conflict on my machine of some type.
 
Cheers
JG

Ha! Figured it out after years of frustration!
 
The CAL script "Split notes to tracks" does not work if you have "display all times as smpte" selected in the display preferences! It must have something to do with how the script calculates where to put all the midi notes on the time line and smpte time display must conflict with that process, hence the error code 14: "value out of range"
 
This would explain why only a few people posted inquiries about it. Only people working in film or tv would want to have all times displayed as smpte.
 
I will post a new thread with this fining. Thanks to those to chimed in here!
Cheers
JG
 
 

Hi, Is there a "CAL" routine to do this...(change note
velocity)? I want to grab all notes on a midi track then run a
"CAL" routine to only change notes in a range (say 40 to 70)
to another range of say 60 to 100 respectively or even move
those notes to another midi track.
 
Aug 6,2017

This is an old thread revived to ask an unrelated question.This should be avoided. Have a question? Create a new thread.

Hey scook - you are right.  I didn't even see the date.  That said, the CAL scripts have been around since seemingly the beginning of time and the Drum Map tutorial video I did was recorded in Sonar 5 (that's FIVE), but (sadly) it's still almost completely relevant and unchanged.

I never use CAL much now however it does have some velocity editing tricks. Why not open a CAL file in notepad and study how it works and maybe you can work out how create your own scripts.