Split Midi to different tracks (Magix 2020)

Amin-Adeli wrote on 5/6/2020, 12:37 AM

I have a MIDI file that contains four tracks, namely a piano, a guitar, a bass and a drum but if I load a guitar VST will effect the rest as well but in Fl-studio I can select the MIDI file and click on separate into different channels so automatically guitar goes to channel 1 and drum goes to channel 2... and I can load different VST for each track /channels or I can select only guitar from the original MIDI file and send it to new tracks /channels and I can load different VST for it. How can I do it in Magix music maker?

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Amin-Adeli wrote on 5/11/2020, 5:39 AM

Please if anyone knows how to split MIDI file share the knowledge.

johnebaker wrote on 5/11/2020, 8:02 AM

@Amin-Adeli

To seperate out the individual channels you will need to load the MIDI file to as many tracks as there are active channels in the file, you may need this 16 times if all channels are used, and layout as shown below

Starting with track 1

double click the MIDI object to open the MIDI Editor
Select Options, Hide Filtered MIDI data (you should only need to do this once) - see image below
Select Options, MIDI Channel Filter and select channel 1 - see image below
Select the next track 2 and repeat step 3 selecting channel 2
Repeat for each subsequent track and channel until all tracks and channels numbers have been done.

Once the channels have all been isolated the inactive ones, ie those with no notes, can be identified and removed - I used the Solo track option to play the tracks one at a time to identify which are empty.

Once this is done you can assign the instruments to the individual tracks as shown below and add effects etc.

Note: until you have saved and reloaded the project you may not see any difference in the notes on the objects on the timeline the image immediately above was after saving and reloading the project..

HTH

John EB

emmrecs wrote on 5/11/2020, 9:17 AM

@johnebaker

Just for absolute clarity, shouldn't your step 4 read "Select the next track and repeat step 3, selecting channel 2"? And then possibly an indication that each subsequent "step" must be a "different" channel, i.e., 3 then 4 then 5 etc.?

Jeff

johnebaker wrote on 5/11/2020, 9:52 AM

@emmrecs

Hi Jeff

Thanks - I have also added some more clarification as well.

John EB

Amin-Adeli wrote on 5/11/2020, 10:38 AM

Thank you very much for your help @johnebaker

My problem solved.

sjewins wrote on 3/22/2021, 7:04 AM

This procedure is a needless pain in the butt. ALL of my other DAWs and editors do this automatically. I don't see why MAGIX can't do that.

SP. wrote on 3/22/2021, 7:18 AM

@sjewins Because Music Maker is a beginners software and not for editing MIDI-files. Apart from the fact that MIDI editing is bugged in Music Maker.

Magix offers Samplitude Music Studio and Samplitude Pro X for these tasks. They are like Music Maker on steroids.

Graham-Hawker wrote on 3/22/2021, 7:26 AM

This procedure is a needless pain in the butt. ALL of my other DAWs and editors do this automatically. I don't see why MAGIX can't do that.

I imagine Magix does that in its DAW programs. Music Maker is essentially a program for creating stuff with loops to which basic DAW features have been added. I'm sure more features will be added in the future.

Amin-Adeli wrote on 3/22/2021, 8:08 AM

I was wrong! I bought music maker and I thought that was a DAW! Since I had many problems with it and sent email to them and complaint slot, they said this is not a DAW!. I expected to get something like DAW out of it. It didn't work for me and I realized this is for putting loops together and record some basic sounds with it. It's only for beginners who doesn't know much about music. Well, I switched the software for long time from Magix to cakewalk which is a real DAW, it's super fast and easy, also totally free and already get awards in sounds and software. Since then I really happy with it. Magix is for kindergarten children only.

johnebaker wrote on 3/22/2021, 8:54 AM

@Amin-Adeli

. . . . Magix is for kindergarten children only . . . .

Really!

Magix have a range software for beginners right through to professionals.

I guess you did not look at Samplitude by Magix which is a true DAW.

John EB

Amin-Adeli wrote on 3/22/2021, 9:45 AM

@johnebaker

Hi friend, yes there is Samplitude but it's very expensive and it's run super slow, taking long time to run the software and during work if you add many effects and VSTs, it takes too much ram and to arrange is goes super slow, compare with FL which is when you click to run the software it takes 0.8 second or Cakewalk around 1 sec to run. In the Samplitude software there is not much instruments, but others comes with too much presets VST. Some VST is not running on Samplitude... I really don't want to talk much about comparison... But after you try others you will know the difference. It's free, Just try it.