New to melodyne

Audio Snap will create a midi note from any transient. Kick drum is one thing it does very easily. 
This is what you must have used in the past. Melodyne crashed my system too so don't feel bad. I think it needs a lot of CPU and RAM. Or possibly only works on small snippets of a track like V Vocal does. But when I applied it to a Bass guitar track. It froze up. Second time it told me I needed to increase my buffers to 10,000?? so I gave up after that. 
ANyhow open Audio Snap on the audio KIck drum track and read the help files about generating a midi track from an audio track. It's pretty easy if I can do it :) 

Muzock
I heard about that software since a very long time.  I read alot about it.  I watched some tutorials.  I didn't upgrade from the essential I received with X3.  First time I tried something I crassh the program X3.  I was trying to copy an audio vocal track into a MIDI track.  So, I just want to know if I'm wrong...seconly, in X1 I was able to copy my audio bass drum track to midi and than asign it to a VST...I didn't find that fonction in X3.  Does it means that the only way to do this is by melodyne...heu...essential or the up grade one...
 
I hope my questions are clear and thank you.

Insert a midi track. select the audio clip and Shift+drag to move or (Ctrl+shift drag to copy) the audio clip to the midi track - the rest happens by magic ! ;)

I've had Melodyne since forever it seems.  First on a laptop and then on my custom DAW.  I also have the full version of Melodyne Editor.
 
Disclosure: I do not use it for anything other than vocal or audio editing..... no audio to midi conversion stuff for me.
 
My observations from using it.  On the laptop, processing power was limited and melodyne did tend to crash a lot. My solution was to take a verse at a time or less.
 
In the newer DAW with quad processing.... I got the upgrade to the full version of ME...the polyphonic one.  This computer will handle the entire song in poly mode but I still prefer to work on smaller segments of the song..... sometimes as small as a single measure or two.... up to a full verse or chorus.  Clip loading times are shorter with the smaller clips.
 
Be sure to choose the correct mode.... percussion, melodic or poly. Processing is faster if you're in the correct mode.  You don't need poly for a vocal track.
 
Try working it in smaller segments. As far as will the upgrade make it work faster or better....probably not. You will get all the bells and whistles and it's cool..... but try taking smaller bites of the music and see if that won't solve the issue of the crashing.   Melodyne is, without a doubt, the largest CPU consumer of all the plugs I use. 

Muzock
Insert a midi track. select the audio clip and Shift+drag to move or (Ctrl+shift drag to copy) the audio clip to the midi track - the rest happens by magic ! ;)

Probably not with Essential Melodyne

Yes it does.