Hello! I have a Midi track that was used for snare triggering, and I put ghost notes on that midi track. I realize I wanted the ghost midi notes to be on another instrument track, so I just dragged them down to a new track.
This being said, I had holes in the first midi track. No problem; just select all of the midi events, and Bounce Midi.
Now, I want to bounce the midi ghost notes underneath it, but I want it to be the same length and size, start and finish, as the main midi track above it.
In Pro Tools, I could just select something, it would highlight, and I consolidate it, and then that track length would be the reference for any other track if I wanted. I would then hit the down key and consolidate, and done.
How do I do this in Cubase; make the selection and bounce the exact same start and finish as any other track I want?
Is that the only way of doing it? For example, I can select an audio event that I like the length of, hit the arrow down key to the track underneath it, and Bounce Selection and it’s done.
However, with Midi, it doesn’t allow you to Bounce Midi by doing the same thing. It’s greyed out. The only way I can bounce the midi is by making a selection with the arrow tool, and then Bounce Midi is available. I’m only looking to quickly make the Midi one continuous file the same length as a previous selection.
Also, I see Render In Place as a suggestion, but I’m not looking to use the instrument on the Instrument channel for this; I’m looking to make the Midi file one consecutive file that is the same length as the length of any other track. The hard part is if this specific track that is the reference is not exactly on the grid with the start and end, so matching that is quite laborious and daunting (unless there is something I don’t know). Further, I’m not able to Bounce Midi unless it’s a bunch of midi events on the same track. And it will only be as long of an event as there are events on the track.
How do I simply make the midi file the length I want in the easiest fashion?
I think the issue I’m running into is that I have one instrument track with midi on it for all of my snare hits that came from hitpoints. I then drew in all of the ghost notes that the hitpoints didn’t catch on the same midi file.
After that, I sliced the ghost notes and dragged them down to another Instrument track.
Since the original midi file had gaps in it, I then selected all of the midi notes and was able to Bounce Midi, which made it one whole midi file again (Oddly enough, if I select that midi file again to bounce it, the Bounce Midi option is greyed out, but that’s a different issue).
As for the ghost notes midi track, that’s just a bunch of midi events throughout the whole song. If I select those notes with the pointer tool, I can select Bounce Midi, but it only makes the midi file as large as the amount of ghost notes that there are. I want it to be the exact same length as the original file that I pulled the ghost notes from. If I drag either side, it just reveals the midi notes that used to be there, which I don’t need.
I hope what I’m trying to achieve and the issue I’m running into is making sense.
EDIT: also, similar to consolidating an audio file, I just want the consolidated midi file to be the same length.
And if I select the top file, then move the selection down to the bottom track which is split up, I can then consolidate it based on the selection I made on the above track to look like this, where they are both exact in length:
I’m trying to find an easy way to make the third picture above in Cubase look like the second picture in Pro Tools, where you can easily select the top midi file, move the selection down, and consolidate. It takes literally 1-2 seconds to achieve, but I don’t know how to do this in Cubase.
It’s just more visually pleasing for tracks that are all of one group. For example, if I have 12 drum tracks made up of audio and midi, I want them all to be the same length because it looks visually nicer. The 4th picture or bottom picture I took a screenshot of just looks unfinished to me. I would do this with all of my drum tracks, or multi mic’d instruments, so it would be nice to simply do this to the midi as well.
Also, exporting this stuff to send off to someone else, or to archive would be nice to have the same start and finish, so that’s a concern too.
Do you know if it’s feasible to achieve that where I get them exactly the same size as the other audio?
I guess I would manually change the start and end position of the midi part. You mentioned that you have some note events outside the part boundaries and those will make a reappearance because of that. Either you delete them or “mute object” (name of the key command) them.
You can create parts of the “correct” length from the start by selecting a midi part or audio event that has the desired length and use keycommand P to place the locators around the part.
Then double click into an empty area between the locators of the empty track. That will create a new empty part of the desired length.
