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2015/10/13 10:46:43 (permalink)

Workflow for midi (notes) clean up?

I do lot of midi guitar stuff (Fishman Triple play) for my keyboard, strings, drums, bass parts (I am a guitar player).. I want to streamline my (unwanted) midi notes clean up process. (being a Microsoft Excel guy), I want to maintain a checklist for this maintenance (don't get me wrong, I will listen to the notes/song to see what's needed ofcourse).. 
 
What are the steps you do to clean your notes and how?

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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2015/10/13 11:32:52 (permalink)
    Do a find & replace based initially on note velocities, selecting everything below a certain vel, this will highlight them all in the prv and you can delete them.

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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2015/10/13 11:42:54 (permalink)
    Bristol_Jonesey
    Do a find & replace based initially on note velocities




    Sorry, not sure how you do that.. will you please tell me the navigation?

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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2015/10/13 12:14:53 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby magik570 2015/10/13 12:30:44
    That option is in the Edit menu--->Select--->By filter.
     
    There's a plethora of selection criteria that you can set.
     
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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2015/10/13 12:27:52 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby BobF 2015/10/13 12:40:13
    Isn't the "Deglitch" function meant to specifically deal with superfluous MIDI data created by MIDI guits (and similar controllers)?
     
    I think it's in the Process menu but look in the manual under "Deglitch". I haven't used it but IIRC you set up the pararameters for what shouldn't (and should) be there and Deglitch yanks out all the crap outside (or inside?) those parameters.
     
    I'd imagined you'd need to fiddle with it a bit to get the desired results AND do a manual pass after just to do any extra cleanup the process missed but it should save a pile of time.
     
    There are also some Cal Scripts to "Thin" controller data and stuff which I think might be useful for MIDI guit (maybe not).
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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2015/10/13 12:30:49 (permalink)
    Good info guys ...

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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2016/02/12 19:48:30 (permalink)
    hey you can also use MIDI effects and plug it in the FX BIN.
     
    for instance.... lets say you dont want any notes to hit higher than 100 velocity... throw the MIDI velocity FX on the track FX bin, set it to not go over 100, and then you dont even have to bother with note by note editing, filtering, etc...
     
    the plugin will do it for you :)
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    Re: Workflow for midi (notes) clean up? 2016/02/12 20:13:06 (permalink)
    Good lord this reminds me of when I first bought my GR 50 thinking it would be easier now to play my Bass parts for my backing tracks. I soon returned to using my keyboard because the guitar synth created a zillion events which back then (1986) it could cause all sorts of havoc. Stuck notes and filling up precious disk space being some. You were lucky to get 12 songs on a floppy disk without optimizing.  
    This of course should no longer be an issue but old habits die hard and I'm still a stinker about unwanted midi events. 
    Some great tips noted above.
    Her's one of mine, open the event list and set the filters to controller data and delete stuff you don't need.  
    With a keyboard you play an "A" and you get an A event. With a guitar synth you get 600 pitch bend CC events as well. So if the part is not in need of minor pitch bending delete it in the event list. Of course the other filters will work too, there's always 3-4 ways to do the same thing in Sonar. 

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