Fairly simple question: I have a single drum track in FLStudio 6, which is MIDI data triggering a soundfont. What I want to do is duplicate that track so that certain notes (in this case, different drums) go into different tracks - this is largely for the purpose of selectively applying effects like reverb, compression, and equalization. Anyone know if I can easily do this in FLStudio? If not, is it possible in Sonar? Failing that, is there any freeware around that might help me do this?

Can't you simply select notes individually and/or by note number (i.e. percussion type) and/or by time, then cut and paste them to another initially empty track with different effects? This should be possible in any sequencer.

Individually would take forever. The data is in many different sequences at the moment, making a manual method awkward, and I'd like to see if there's some sort of automated method.

EDIT: I may end up flattening and merging it all into one sequence and then attempting to drag a big box around the relevant events... but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible. :) No big deal if there's no alternative, I suppose.

Can't help you much with FL there. In Sonar you can either run a CAL script which will do it for you automatically or you can go to the Piano Roll Editor, click on one of the keys (or drag a section of keys) and the entire key(s) gets selected throughout the entire sequence. Them you just cut and paste into a new track.

If FL has the same piano roll select functions this would be the way to go.

Tony

Hmm, I expect I can just export the FLStudio track as a MIDI file, to concatenate all the sequences together, and then use the piano roll select or CAL script in Sonar to split it, I guess. I figured it would probably require a combination of approaches.