Using Sound Center with Midi Tune in MC5

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2011/02/24 17:57:02 (permalink)

Using Sound Center with Midi Tune in MC5

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This is what I want to do - put a midi track into MC5 and just keep the bass and drums to make a backing track to play along with. Then to improve the sound use Sound Center and the Studio drums to replace the original poor midi sounds. Is this an easy process and if so can some kind soul point me the right direction, thanks in anticipation. Graeme
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    57Gregy
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    Re:Using Sound Center with Midi Tune in MC5 2011/02/24 19:06:34 (permalink)
    Welcome to the forum.
    The Help files have tons of information about using software synthesizers. Doing the Tutorials are a good way to learn how everything in MC works.
    But if you already have the MIDI tracks recorded, go to Insert at the top and insert 1 Sound Center and 1 Studio Instruments Drums then change the outputs of your MIDI tracks to those soft synths.

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    Re:Using Sound Center with Midi Tune in MC5 2011/02/24 19:52:10 (permalink)



    This is what I want to do - put a midi track into MC5 and just keep the bass and drums to make a backing track to play along with. Then to improve the sound use Sound Center and the Studio drums to replace the original poor midi sounds. Is this an easy process and if so can some kind soul point me the right direction, thanks in anticipation. Graeme
    So my first question is: Is the mid track JUST a specific instrument OR is it one of those ALL inclusive tracks that has all the instruments in one track?

    If so.... I'm not real sure how you would just take the drums and bass out and put them into their own track....

    If they are separate tracks yeah..... sound center is a good thing to use.



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    Re:Using Sound Center with Midi Tune in MC5 2011/02/25 10:14:56 (permalink)
    You question includes a misconception " original poor MIDI sounds". Such do not exist, because a MIDI file can not include any kind of sound, only instruction data.

    But basicly the answer is yes. If the MIDI file you import is of type MIDI 1, which means there are several tracks included, you can set the bass and drum tracks to play bass and drum soft synths and continue with the project.

    Pointing to the right direction??? What do you mean? The help files and tutorials tell you about inserting soft synths. Finding the MIDI files?? I have no idea where you can find such. (I read between the lines that you mean importing MIDI files, not playing them yourself, because you say "just keeping the drum and bass..")

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