Panning Midi Drums

To pan an indvidual instrument, you'd need to cut it from the original "everything" track, and paste it into a track of its own. Then, once it's in its own track, you can pan it from the usual pan knob control on the track list, next to its name.

btw_2010 wrote:

As all the instruments are a collective on one track, I can't find a way of splitting the track in to seperate instruments. I can see that this would be a much better option, as I could then control panning, volume and other parameters if each instrument where on a different track, but.........................how do I do that?

• With the original track selected, click on the scissor iconon the lower left. That will bring up an edit window (the Piano Roll).

• Scroll around until you see your notes as blocks on the grid. A single sound played over time will appear as blocks on the same horizontal row, the same piano note stretched from left to right.

• Select all the notes from a single sound (on a single horizontal row) and cut them (command X).

• Then, create a new software instrument (click the + on the lower left, select software instrument and whatever drum sound you’re using).

• Put the cursor back to the beginning, and with that new track selected, paste in the single sound you removed from the "everything" track (command V).

btw_2010 wrote:

Is there any third party midi editing software that would access more midi control options available out there?

I'm not sure of any MIDI editing software that works with GB. Rather, when people want more flexibility and control, they usually upgrade to something like Logic.

Just one addition:

Select all the notes from a single sound (on a single horizontal row) and cut them (command X).

This can be done easily by hitting the corresponding key on the vertical keyboard in the Editor window.

It sounds like you're selecting everything. Try clicking your mouse on empty space between the notes to deselect everything. Then, try Christorpher's suggestion of hitting the corresponding key on the vertical keyboard in the Editor window. If you want to select the E row, click the E. You should see that row light up, and nothing else. (You could also try dragging a box around just the notes you want to select). Then, continue with cutting and pasting and see if that row and that row only got pasted.

btw_2010 wrote:

However, when I execute the cut, it cuts the whole drum track, and similarly pastes the whole drum track in the new "software track" I have created and I'm back to square one;

This actually is how I approach the task you are trying to do. I copy the whole track and then just delete the bits I don't want from each track. Different approach, same end result. 🙂