Hi All… Am writing some midi notes (AVL Drums. maracas C#4) and some of the notes are already panned hard left, had a good look around the net but could not see how this is done. Looking around in Ardour, I was hoping to find something like ‘midi note properties’ or similar so that I could have some control over this, but cant find anything that allows me to change or implement this…
Am probably missing something simple here, any idea how this is done?
Perhaps they were recorded in those positions? Are you able to check the audio files? Or it could be CC10 which is pan.
Hi DHealey…
These are not recordings, these are midi notes and I am currently inputting the notes into AVL Drums (Pearl Drum kit). The maracas are panned hard left and I am unable change this. I have encountered this before when I played downloaded midi files and some of the notes were panned left or right, cant find out a way of changing the pan, but I am guessing there must be a method, they didnt get panned without one…
For AVLDrums those are panned as visible on the picture for the given drumset and part of the stereo overhead recording. Maracas are around 75% right.
One way to get this panned differently is to use a dedicated plugin instance only for the maracas, and then use Ardour’s stereo panner…
Hey Robin…
I did get around it exactly the way you suggested and used a sample instead of midi…
Is my question still valid though? I cant seem to find one right now, but I have definately used 3rd party midi notes with some of them already panned. Am trying to research how to edit midi notes, not found a way yet…
The MIDI notes are triggering recordings - MIDI itself doesn’t produce a sound.
That would be soundfonts right? Would editing the soundfonts give me control of panning?
It’s AVLDrums in your case, I don’t know if that’s a soundfont or not, I’m not familiar with it.
A MIDI instrument can take many forms:
Some of those instruments may be sound fonts. Others may be simple samples, others may be synthesisers, and others, like the AVL Drumkit LV2 plugin, might be a plugin with a canned set of samples and behaviour, which you cannot edit.
I suspect you are using the AVL.Drumkit LV2 plugin which, as I say, isn’t editable in the way you want.
The good news is the AVL Drumkit samples are separately available in multiple forms including a Soundfont:
Cheers,
Keith
Thank you Keith…! Had not realized I could get these separately… Problem solved…!