Session Drummer (1) to SD2 Pattern conversion

(Sorry about the cross post in the SONAR forum...)

Is anyone out there aware of a utility that will convert (or batch convert) Session Drummer (1) content into patterns that can be used in Session Drummer 2?

SD 1 patterns were (are) MIDI files with markers that delineate each available pattern within the file. SD2 patterns seem to have individual MIDI files for each available pattern with all the related patterns collected in a file directory. The MIDI files also seem to include MIDI Groove Clip Info with a “Beats in Clip” count.

It would seem that a conversion utility would be pretty straightforward...but I'm way too lazy to do it myself if someone else has already tackled it and made it publicly available.

Looking at them again, I see that SD 1 patterns are MIDI files and SD 2 is an audio sample player. You could go to the trouble of converting all of the SD 1 MIDI patterns to audio using your favorite drum kit in SD 2, then load those audio clips/samples into SD 2 for permanent access.
Or just play SD 1 through Sd 2 like I did. Might be easier,

I just went to my program files, found the SD 1 MIDI pattern files, selected them all, copied them, and then pasted them in the SD 2 MIDI pattern file. They're in there now, and they should play. Give it a try!

Edit: And now I'm wondering if I just violated the CW TOSA by copying them... I hope I don't get banned.

Yeah, you're right. They wouldn't play. Just a snare tap, tap, tap. Oh well, what can you do?

ORIGINAL: 57Gregy

So in the MC Pro 24 help file, it states that you can convert the session drummer track into a MIDI track. You select a track, open the console view and click the F/X button. The problem is that there is no F/X button that I can find.
But I found tonight that you can use the Process>MIDI>Session Drummer menu to do that. A MIDI clip is created from a SD 1 pattern, which can presumably be loaded into SD 2. Certainly not easy or fast, but it can be done, pattern by pattern, if you had a day or 2 to spend on it.
Which SONAR forum did you post this to? Have you had any responses there?

Doing the conversions "by hand" one at a time is certainly not worth the trouble.

What I was looking for was a utility that would take a source directory as input and a target directory for the output and...
* Create a subdirectory representing each SD1 pattern/MIDI file found in the directory and subdirectories below it.
* Create individual SD2 pattern(MIDI) files for each pattern found in the SD1 file.
* Create an SD2 program (.prog) file for each collection of SD2 pattern files using some default drum kit.

What I will most likely do is go ahead and use SD1 for what it does well and use SD2 as just a soft synth. What I might do is go ahead and design and write the aforementioned utility as a programming exercise for the hordes of users that are screaming for it. It would appear (from the SONAR Producer version of this thread (http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1748215)) that there are two entire users that are interested in this conversion.

(That's a pretty skimpy horde.)

Yeah, I can see how that would be a lot of work, and you seem to know a lot more about it than I do, especially the programming part.