It has been over 18 years since i last put a click track down for a drummer to follow & my memory is not as good as it could be.
I have a backing track(s) that has got certain keyboard parts programmed (the track is an audio file) that has a click track also as an audio file.
Problem is, the click track sounds very nasty & would like to change it to a midifile based click track to enable me to use a different sound for the click.
Question is, can an audio click track somehow be changed into a midifile click track? I use Cubase V6.5 on Win 7.
If it's just a simple ticking in time without any tempo changes, I'd be inclined to start again and just throw something together with a MIDI loop and a percussion sample.
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mick.n wrote:can an audio click track somehow be changed into a midifile click track? I use Cubase V6.5 on Win 7.
It's a while since I used v6.5, and can't recall the details from back then, but there's an extract MIDI function built into Cubase's Variaudio. The manual should tell you what you need to know about that...
Thank you all for replying, I tried the variaudio process that Mixedup mentioned.....all it did was extract a few random notes here & there.............had a good giggle on hearing the result.
Also, some of the backing tracks have been recorded "freely"......to put down a click track to these would mean recording myself tapping away on a keyboard triggering a click sound on one of my boards for the duration of the backing track.
VariAudio isn't the tool for this. Just do a tempo detection on the audio click track. If you don't have one, then tap a MIDI keyboard along and use the tapped MIDI notes for the tempo. The manual covers creating tempo from tapping.
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Alternatively, you can use hitpoint detection on your audio click track and then create midi notes from your hitpoints. Use the midi track that you create this way to trigger whatever sound(s) you want.
Hmmm, I'll need to go back to an older project and work out what I did Sam. I was adding a snare drum sample to a not-tracked-to-a-click recording and just used one of the stock plug-ins.
Won't get chance to check for a couple of days though.
But in Cubase you can assign a sample 'high' and a sample 'low' to the clic in the click configuration , did you see it ? (maybe I didn't have right understood
I used the JS: Audio to MIDI Drum Trigger plug-in. Might be worth a stab? I found it surprisingly effective without needing any other gating or 'owt like that.
A Mic on the floor when you're jamming and just tap your boot on the '1' or whatever's appropriate will provide a nice audio click you can easily convert to midi later, a quick clean up of the bits where one becomes more excited and there's your tempo mapper track.
