One track to many

[zeoy]

Hi guys,
is there a way to send a track containing midi (no VSTis in this track) to many different tracks in Tracktion?
I was thinking to make some sfz's with only kick or snare or toms or hihats or cymbals, place them in different tracks and use another one containing the midi file to drive them (is it too dumb?). Something like multi channel drums (don't have nor wanna buy Kontakt, Halion etc.)

[AD80]

Its really simple to do with a rack filter. Open a new rack filter, wire the midi in straight to the midi out. Now drop that rack on your midi track, and any other track you want to trigger at the same time. They will all recieve midi from each other. Hope I explained that right .

[zeoy]

I was thinking to write in the first place that I 'd like to avoid racks for this. I've already done something like this with a rack containing 5 ShortCircuit's (the sampler you know) 5 volume filters and some additional effects but it was too busy.
Now I can see that I have to use the rack only for the midi routing and that's elegant enough for me. Thanx

[M'Snah]

Indeed. I do it like that all the time

btw You *could* try to create a single rack filter preset that contains a midi splitter (e.g. eXT), all the sfz's with the sounds, and the EQ/Compression/effects for the sounds, a few faders and then a stereo out

EDIT: I was typing this before I had read your reply..

btw. Why avoid racks? I love them. I even have a M/S rack preset

[P.T.]

There is a simpler way to do it.

If the midi for the drums is all on one track (in one clip) you can create a track for each drum sound. Put an empty clip on each track.

Now, select one of the notes in the original drum clip, the kick for example. In the lower panel chose select notes, then select all notes of the same pitch.
Now all of the kick notes will be highlighted.
Copy and then paste that to one of the new tracks.

Load sfz in that track with your drum set. The track will only play the kick.

Now do this for each drum sound.

You now have all of the drums on seperate tracks so you cam mix, EQ, and use seperate effects on each drum.

It can be done a lot faster than it takes to explain.

I find this much easier, and cleaner than using racks.

[M'Snah]

I find this much easier, and cleaner than using racks.

Yes indeed, when you have the drum sounds in different VST's or soundfonts. I believe the groovemonkey MIDI's come in this form too.

But of course when using RMIV or DR008 or another multi-out VST you have a different situation.

[zeoy]

@Hans: I wanted to avoid racks because I thought the only way to achieve what I was looking for was a rack like the one I described (all the sfzs EQs etc. in one rack) which is handy but there's no much room for all this stuff. It's getting too crowded in there. However I thing that AD80's suggestion to use a rack in order to send midi to many tracks which will contain the samplers for the subgroups (one for kick one for snare on for hihats etc.) it's OK for me. I can send these tracks to another one to have a drums submix.


@PT: Yeah I thought of that but I want to be able to inspect all my midi drums simultaneously in one track. But one can use a single track for a preliminary mix and do this split thing at the final mixing stage


Thanx guys