Midi chords (not chord track) to midi parts? How to?

Hi @samueltornqvist @raino
It may or may not be relevant to your workflows but (prompted by your comments) I also created a slightly more elaborate PLE preset which allocates a MIDI channel to each note in the chord (in this case assuming chords with 4 notes) and then separates onto tracks using the ‘Dissolve Part’ command, while also setting the output to the desired VST instrument. It’s similar to the previous preset:

This requires the creation of a macro ‘Transform notes in chord to different MIDI channels’ (used in the Pre-Process commands) which contains 4 Logical Editor presets set up as follows:


and

and so on, increasing the note number and channel number each time, to cover the 4 notes of the chord.

The resulting four presets are added to the macro.

This is really nice.
Does anyone have a clever idea of moving the events to a specific track in a template? I can do it with quite a few commands, but I was just wondering if there is a more clever way in the LPE.

I am not sure I would actually use this now when I think about it, but I would probably just select the tracks based on their names (since they are set in the template) and just move them there

I found one tiny problem. The order of the parts/channels is in reverse. Bass is on top, etc. Is there any clever way of reversing this?

Yes, this is a side effect of using Dissolve Part or using Extract lowest note. The lowest is processed first.

Don’t know of an elegant way to achieve this but a macro using the commands ‘Move Selected track to Next Available Position’ and ‘Navigate Up’ could reverse track order and this macro could then be added to the PLE Post-Process commands.

If you’re on CB14, see this:
Bing Videoer.

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Never had much success with that. It persistently seems to choose non-useful voicings in adaptive voicings mode.

Never the less, it’s a video of how to explode chord notes to seperate tracks. It may be usefull to the topics authour, and others.

Indeed it may well be useful. However, I believe there might be a simpler workflow to achieve the voicings.

Could you show a little more in detail how you would do this?

Cheers!

It is a nice idea. It can definitely be useful.

For me, It is less useful as I can’t choose my own voicing this way, and I would prefer to be able to not use the chord track.

But definitely a valid option
Cheers!

There may be other ways but the following macro would work:

Before use make sure the first track of the four tracks whose order is to be reversed is selected.

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I greatly appreciate you took the time.
Thanks!