Hi Scott,
that's one feature I really luv in OMB, it has a conversion table that you can set up
to suite you. You can do multiple tables & save them to use over & over again. You can even adjust individual drum velocties usingthe conversion table ie your bass drum plays too softly, add a plus velocity of 10, 20 whatever. Your brushes are playing too loud, add a minus velocity. You can use the velocity function even if you don't want to convert the drum notes.
You can veiw it in decimal or note names. I prefer decimal because Jos's note names are an octave or 2 out when you use a synth drum map. He names his notes from a different starting point for instance on my gm drum map C1 no 36 is Bass Drum 1 .
( I think Jos has C3 36 Bass Drum 1)
So setting it to decimal is less confusing and most drum maps have notes & no's.
Apply to Tracks .
Make sure only track 10 and/or 9 are ticked and that they're set to channel 10 in the style. Gm won't?? accept midi channel 9 as a drum track ( at least that's what I beleive)
Next the option of
IN All Parts
what that means is do you want this conversion in all the drum tracks throughout the style. I would say yes, because if you've got a wrong drum in vari a , it's likely to be in one of the other style parts also.
To do a conversion just say convert Bass Drum 2 B0 35 to Bass Drum 1 C1 36.
Stylemaker
Track
Convert
( do the settings above)
Old 35
New 36
Apply
Save the style as "???"a
Test it.
Now if you find you need to convert some more notes, load in the original style, (35/36 will still be setup in the table) do the others you want to change , press apply. Resave as "???"a.
You can also save the conversion table, so that if you find another style that needs converting, you table is already set up.
The reason I keep loading in the original style rather than the edited version ( when I'm building up a conversion table in steps) is mainly out of habit. You can't really botch it up when you're only converting notes, but if you're doing velocities at the same time, each time you press apply you're adding or taking away velocities over & over again.
Hope I'm making some sense.
Also, just in case you haven't tried the stylemaker ( omb), and you really only need to edit the one or 2 notes you could edit them in the events list.
Stylmaker
Events colum
left click the events section of the track you want to edit
choose event list
you'll see the notes in the track. (Remember Jos's notes are different to GM table)
More than likely your wrong drum notes will be any notes below
( jos's B2)= ( GM's B0 )note 35 bass drum 2
or notes above
( jos's C7 )= ( GM's C5) note 84 bell tree.
best wishes
Rikki
p.s. jos has a gm conversion table in the group files, but you're better off doing your own to suit your synth.
Originally posted by Scott Langholff:
Hi Rikki
Regarding the wrong drum parts possibility with Yamaha styles. I would guess that there is some way to either eliminate the one bad sound or to possibly use one of those programs that Michael Bedesem has created to fix those drum parts in midi songs for Yamaha gear? Do you think that that is a correct assumption?
[This message has been edited by rikkisbears (edited 06-21-2005).]
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