Importing certain midi tracks into FL

[Munin]

Hello,
I want to convert a MIDI piece that I have written years ago into a 'real' song, this means with better sound. I am using FL and just taking the MIDI tracks into the piano roll and it works fine. However, what about the percussion track? How should I import it so that I can - in the best situation - spread it over multiple drum instruments in FL so I can work with it again without manually redoing the drums? Because, I tried simply importing it like other midi tracks but I ended up with a blank piano roll too. This also happens with the percussion tracks of other MIDI files, so I'm guessing I must somehow do it another way.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris

[speccyteccy]

By default, if you open a MIDI file from the sample browser, FL doesn't import MIDI Channel 10 (the drum channel) - you have to manually select it.

Once the MIDI has been imported, you need to decide whether to leave it in one channel, in which case you need a multi-timbral drum machine. Fortunately FL has 3 of these - Drumsynth Live, Soundfont Player and the new FPC.

Alternatively, you could copy the notes from each instrument and paste them into separate sampler channels.

[duke4e]

you can try the new fpc plugin, so all your drums are still in one track...

you can also try fruity layer and assign it to your drum samples

you can also select each line (note) if your drum chanel and copy it into new one

also you can do drums from scratch

[Stupid American Pig]

excellent advice speccyteccy

[kode_poet]

Best thing, you can assign each drum sound to its own miexer channel and process it differently.