CAL Script - Remove Voices

[Mathieu Laprise]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a script that would allow me to remove the first or second voice of a melodic line while keeping the unison parts.

Is this possible?

For example, when the flutes play together, nothing is deleted, but when they split, I would like to be able to remove the top or bottom line.

Best

[David Baay]

When you say "unison", do you mean voices on the same pitch or an octave apart? Either way, the two voices would first need to be combined in a single MIDI clip (with events on different channels if they're on the same pitch). Then it would be possible to write a CAL to do that but I don't know of one that exists, and it wouldn't be trivial enough for me to want to try it for fun. ;^)

Do you run into this situation enough to justify needing a script for it? I would think it's not that difficult to do manually in the PRV with the two voices in separate tracks.

 

[Mathieu Laprise]

By "unison," I indeed mean the same pitch. I often import MIDI files from a notation software where two instruments are on the same track .

A script like this would allow me to quickly delete the top line for the entirety of Track 1

And the bottom line for Track 2. That’s all I need—nothing more  

 

Without even needing to separate them into two tracks

[Terry Kelley]

NM

Edited 23 hours ago by Terry Kelley

[Nigel Mackay]

I have tried similar, but it is not easy. With this particular example you can delete the top instrument, except for notes that both play. That just leaves a few to delete manually. And ditto for the bottom octave.

And in future don't put 2 instruments on the same track in the notation software

With CAL the track can be scanned and if there are 2 notes the top(bottom) one can be deleted. But they would have to start at the exact same time. Down to ticks.