Can someone please explain the "Midi Clip Pool"? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Can someone please explain the "Midi Clip Pool"? Posted by: lofftjm Date:11/17/2007 12:30:38 PM If I create a new midi track to be used for drums and then enable the inline midi editing option to create a drum beat, each midi note that I paste into the piano roll creates it's own midi clip. If I record a midi track using a midi controller, all of the indivudial hits get placed into 1 midi clip. (This is how I feel it should work, but maybe I don't understand the real purpose of the clips). What is the purpose of having multiple midi clips per track and how can they be utilized?
Subject:RE: Can someone please explain the "Midi Clip Pool" Reply by: pwppch Date:11/17/2007 2:43:16 PM Not sure exactly what you are doing, but you do not have to work this way. When you create a new MIDI track, there are no MIDI Track Events created. (A MIDI Track event is not a MIDI note event!) The model is that you paint notes into a MIDI Track Event or "clip". A clip is represented on the ACID time line by a MIDI Track Event. To do what you want, - create a new MIDI track. - Enter into Inline editing mode - With your mouse, left drag for some duration. You should not have an area on the track labeld " MIDI Clip - 1" or something simliar. You paint notes into this area. If you want to make the painting area longer, you just drag the edges of the MIDI Track Event lik you normally do. You can also change its length or hide the notes exposed through the normal Track Event editing methods available in ACID. One purpose of having multiple MIDI clips is to allow you to arrange things. For example, your song has a verse, chorus, and bridge. You could create (record or paint) three clips. You can then "paint out these clips where you want to on a MIDI track. It is no different than using multiple ACIDIZED wave loops on a single track. This is one purpose, there are many others. Peter

Not sure exactly what you are doing, but you do not have to work this way.

When you create a new MIDI track, there are no MIDI Track Events created. (A MIDI Track event is not a MIDI note event!)

The model is that you paint notes into a MIDI Track Event or "clip". A clip is represented on the ACID time line by a MIDI Track Event.

To do what you want,
- create a new MIDI track.
- Enter into Inline editing mode
- With your mouse, left drag for some duration.

You should not have an area on the track labeld " MIDI Clip - 1" or something simliar.

You paint notes into this area. If you want to make the painting area longer, you just drag the edges of the MIDI Track Event lik you normally do. You can also change its length or hide the notes exposed through the normal Track Event editing methods available in ACID.

One purpose of having multiple MIDI clips is to allow you to arrange things.

For example, your song has a verse, chorus, and bridge.

You could create (record or paint) three clips. You can then "paint out these clips where you want to on a MIDI track.

It is no different than using multiple ACIDIZED wave loops on a single track.

This is one purpose, there are many others.

Peter