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2016/01/24 10:56:52
june61944
Thanks, Beepster.  By the way, you had a great avatar earlier, and I love the new one.  Hats of to Mr. Kilmister, RIP.
 
I've nearly go this licked.  I have 7 MIDI tracks that represent my drum kit.  I want to use those same MIDI kits now to trigger Analog Drums in Kontakt.  If I drag one of the MIDI clips into the main MIDI track of Kontakt, it plays the notes and I can generate a wafeform preview through he corresponding instrument track.  So maybe a final question: How do I get the rest of the MIDI instruments to play through their corresponding tracks (do I have to have all my MIDI drums located in one MIDI track)?  
 
Also, this might be something for the larger Kontakt audience: how do you actually write multi-instrument midi patterns using multi-out drum kits in Kontakt (Studio Drummer, MAD Drums, etc.)? I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that using drum kits in Kontakt would be as easy as the multi-out use of AD2, where I can record each instrument on the fly and edit each MIDI track before bouncing the whole kit to audio...
2016/01/24 12:00:30
Beepster
Hello again. Yeah, I've been meaning to switch my avatar back. The Snaggletooth image is a temporary homage to mourn ole Lemmy's passing. Very sad. I wanted to meet him before he (or I) dies but alas that won't happen. Perhaps in the "Loud Mofo's" afterlife.
 
As for at least part of your question...
 
I think what you are saying is you have generated MIDI clips for individual kitpieces instead of all on one clip. This can sometimes make it easier to edit but obviously ends up with more clips/tracks. It's preferences thing.
 
But what you would do is... if you want to retain all the clips separate (so Snare on one MIDI track, Kick on another, Hats on another, etc) you have two options (AFAIK... I don;t work like this). If each kit piece has its own MIDI clip on its own track then you just set each of those tracks to output to the synth. The synth will (or should) accept all the incoming MIDI messages then spit them out to audio tracks. Alternatively you could put them all into a single track inside Take Lanes (so each MIDI clip for each kitpiece would get its own Take Lane). Then use the "Sound On Sound" recording mode which will make it so all the clip playback and are audible (right click on the Transport Module's Record button to access these Preferences settings).
 
If you want them all on a single clip then you can just select all the clips > Right Click > Bounce to Clip(s). This will mash all the notes/clips/parts into a single MIDI clip.
 
Not sure why they are being separated out in the first place though but maybe you are tracking one piece at a time.
 
Cheers!
2016/01/24 21:06:52
june61944
Thanks, Mate.  Yeah, I'm used to recording each kit piece by hand (i rarely use loops or predefined MIDI clips) so the bounce to clip option is going to work best for me once I've been able to edit each track using AD2 before playing the bounced clip through Kontakt.  
 
You've been a huge help.  I'm up and running...just in time to go back to work tomorrow morning.   Ah, there are worst problems to have.  
 
All the best.
 
PS - I did meet Lemmy once, here in Detroit back in 1984, but that's probably a story for another day.
 
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