These days i experiment a lot with drum rhythms. I have one midi-track for each drum instrument, so it is quite an amount of tracks, and sometimes i like the result, and would like to store it, so i can later just import it to another ardour session and use it there.
As far i understand:
bouncing them to clip library i only get one midi-track per bounce (and then later have to drag them from editor-list one by one).
both setting as template and saving as mixer-strip will only save the tracks, but not include the midi-regions.
What i search for is a simple way to save all tracks including the midi-regions (i could combine them per track, so not several regions per track, but several for all tracks) and then reuse all at once. Doing one by one iād just do by bouncing them to clip library.
I hope what i am looking for is at least somehow clear.
In short what is seen on the picture, tracks and regions, i want to save and then reuse in another session.
What would be a good, effective approach for that?
when you are satisfied with your rhythm, record all the single drum tracks together in a new MIDI track
bounce that new one to the clip library (all the instruments together)
To reuse it:
save a template where you have one MIDI track with the appropriate drum plugin, outputting to several Busses, one per instrument
import the MIDI from the clip library in the MIDI track.
Depending on the drum plugin you are using, you may have to do some manual routing, but I think mamy drum plugins can output to multiple channels (e.g. AVL drums, Drumgizmo).
This way you can still make adjustments to the one MIDI track, and at the same time mix/eq/pan/compress/etc. the single drum pieces individually. Also you spare a bit of computing power, using just one drum plugin instead of one per track.
Having all the drum pieces in one track can be a little confusing at the beginning, but again, usually the drum plugins show the names of the MIDI notes (kick, snare ā¦) in the scroomer, in the track header.
