Help with a Drum track (stereo track only)

I'm wondering if Melodyne editor would work with this... I've only just got it myself so I've never tried it.

I dealt with exactly the same problem a couple years ago. What I came up with is this...
 
I first cloned the drum track. Then I put an EQ on the clone with very steep filters that suppressed everything but the hats. If you don't have an EQ capable of extreme slopes, you can use two EQs in series, or one EQ with multiple overlapping filters. Then I routed that nasty-sounding hats-only track into the sidechain input of a compressor on the drums. There were a few places in the key track where crash cymbals were coming through that I didn't want triggering the compressor, so I took them out with volume automation.
 
I'm sure there are more sophisticated ways of doing this, but it worked well and saved an otherwise-unusable drum track.. 

Multi-band compressors are useful for this sort of job, with just the frequency range of the hats being compressed. Even better is a multi-band compressor side-chained to a hats-only track along the lines of bitflipper's suggestion.

Can anyone elaborate for a second about that sidechaining to the compressor mentioned above.  What does that do ?  so if I have a track of isolated frequencies and I put a compressor on the original drum track then point the goofy track to the side chain input....does it only compress the frequencies it sees on the signal coming in from the side chain?    If thats true that is pretty cool and did not know that.
 
 

The effect of side-chaining would depend on the compressor.

If it's a full-range compressor (i.e. not a multiband) it will apply compression to the entire track the compressor is on every time it received a side-chain signal.

A multiband compressor with a switchable sidechain for each band would only compress in the frequency bands with the sidechain activated. There actually aren't many compressors with per-band sidechaining, Waves C6 is the one I use. Compressor pumping can be an issue though, so it's best done subtly.

An alternative is careful use of a multiband comp without side-chaining just reducing the hat's frequency band. It would require quite a bit of automation to set that up though, unless compressing everything in that frequency band throughout is OK.

Careful eq notching can help as well. R-mix is another possibility if you have it and it will work for you (it point blank refuses to load in SPlat for me, I think it,s only compatible with X2). Ozone can do this sort of thing as well.
To be honest, if you have the original drum tracks the easiest and least obtrusive thing to do is simply re-mix them.

Thanks fellows! Now that work is over, play can begin. I do have R-mix and have tried, but so far not very good results. You guys have given me an idea though.
I'm going to clone the track and filter out everything I can and see if I can blend the two...basically turning up the snare and kick with the clone. I'll be back.

I do have Audition, but I haven't used it for much more than editing peaks. I'll look into that too.
I always look at these little mistakes as learning opportunities. I could easily just get my drummer to come back over and redo the track (it's pretty straight forward), but learning how to fix things, and taking the time to learn how to use the tools...is a very valuable thing I think. I'm working way too hard and long on the bass part for example. I could have re-recorded it 50 times by now, but I'm learning some good things. Like how much damage Audio Snap can do! Hahaha! That thing is pretty much worthless.

I think Bit and/or Bapu nailed it.

OK, that makes more sense. That is what I understood about sidechaining compressors. 
 
Also on audio snap.  I have lost many many hours on it.  It can work well in short spurts, on smaller sections,  if you enable it, make the moves correctly (removing and adding the correct markers)  and bounce to clip immediately then making sure its off.  It is not something you can leave on for three or four sessions and assume its going to hold true.
 
I re-snapped the same drum tracks with overheads about 10 times before I figured out all the little nuances. Hours and hours upon hours.  At one point it would all preview correctly and look correct in the timeline but render incorrectly?  I don't think it handles tempo changes either, but I may be getting confused with melodyne.  

Clint are you sure you have no autosave copy of the Sonar project with the hats track ?
If you have autosave enabled that is...
Iic you won't be able to open such autosave file from within Sonar.
But the autosave copies all sorted on time are in the Windows folder registry in the same folder where the project is.
(the files don't have a Sonar icon, but a 'piece of paper' icon, doubleclick them let's you choose to open it with Sonar).
Like your music,playing and the songs....reminds me a bit of Robben Ford...nice music.
If I may reach a suggestion, I think the totally awesome guitars would come out even better with the processing a bit down, and the fader up. That's just my opinion as a music fan.
best of luck
 
 

I thought I may be able to use Melodyne ARA or Sonar to convert the audio to midi, but I can't seem to do it.
 
Here is a link to the drums on soundcloud. These were played by Randy Treadway. I added the ride cymbal later.
 
 https://soundcloud.com/clintmartin/drums-for-repair-1

Drum replacer seems halfway done to me. It will probably be great someday, but for now it's pretty easy to switch out drums using EZ Drummer 2 or Addictive Drums 2. I guess the point of it is for loops.