Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6

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2012/02/21 14:01:58 (permalink)

Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6


I'm trying to change the duration/length of a ride cym trak
that has all zero duration values. Can't hear the cym without some value.
Using a percent length edit will not change a value of zero to anything?
I need a value of 1 or greater, Without doing each note one at a time.
Any sugestions would be apreciated. Thank you.

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    Guitarhacker
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    Re:Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6 2012/02/21 18:08:24 (permalink)
    Can you please explain that a bit better... clearer? 

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    Re:Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6 2012/02/22 00:02:42 (permalink)

    I'll try:
    I'm talking only about the Midi editing features of Music Creator.
    In the events view you can see that all midi notes have a length of
    x amount of clock ticks, anywhere from 0 to thousands of ticks depending
    on the durationn of the note. In the Events View, it would be the
    collumn fully to the right side of the screen. When I edit a midi file I
    split the drums up into seperate tracks. A note of 0 ticks can exist in the track
    but will not sound the note. Now a channel 10 midi drum note will need at least
    one tick of length to sound. I'm trying to edit a track of low ride cym notes
    with a length of 0 ticks duration. The values can be changed one at a time, but who
    wants to do that to a thousand cymbal notes. In the old Cakewalk Pro series of
    Sequencers this was an easy fix. You just used a lemgth edit and change all
    the values by a percentage OR by an exat amount such as 10 ticks. In Music Creator
    you only have the choice of percent edit. Ofcourse a percent change to a
    value of 0 gives only 0.. I need to change all the clocks to a number like
    10 ticks.  Thanks for the help.

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    Re:Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6 2012/02/22 07:15:21 (permalink)
    I use staff view mostly to edit midi. 

    Drum display in staff as notes on the staff. You can change them to a percussion staff if you choose OR leave them as regular musical notes.... either way they still sound like drums.


    OK so... if you can see the note, if it exists, from staff view, if you RIGHT CLICK that specific note a NOTE PROPERTIES window opens. 

    In the NP window, you can change the duration of the note by simply changing the number in the duration field. 

    I generally do one at a time, but I see your point on doing a thousand of them. I have never tried to do multiples BUT... I'm thinking that in the PRV you can do that and I think you still have the ability to grab a whole range of notes and change them all at the same time.

    You'll need to get advice from someone who uses PRV. I do not use PRV. 


    Might be a dumb question but: Have you looked in the help under Midi, Editing notes, multiple notes to see what you can find?  I can quite often find the answers I need in the F1 help menu. You might have to search a bit. 
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    Re:Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6 2012/02/24 00:45:30 (permalink)
    If the ride cymbal track is continuous, not much or any variation throughout the song, I would split the track after the first measure, delete everything after the first measure, edit the notes in that first measure so they have duration, then either convert that measure to a groove clip and drag it out, or copy/paste it.

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    Re:Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6 2012/03/18 23:29:58 (permalink)
     In the Events View, it would be the 
    collumn fully to the right side of the screen.  
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    Re:Drum duration/length problem? In Music Creator 6 2012/04/07 11:32:14 (permalink)
    I'm talking only about the Midi editing features of Music Creator.
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