Syncing several MIDI tracks

[LNovik@aol.com]

I'm doing an instrumental song cover where the main verse has 3 separate tracks playing in harmony. That is, Jessica by the Allman Brothers. I know I can use Audio Snap or Vocal sync with audio tracks. But I have recorded these tracks first in MIDI so that I can edit them more easily. I also realize I could prob just convert each MIDI track to an audio track, and then sync them all with the above tools. But I would think syncing them first in MIDI would sound best. Does anyone know any method to sync these 3 MIDI tracks. Or, at least, the main verses (sections) of 3 different MIDI tracks. If not, I guess I can simply listen carefully to all the tracks and adjust notes manually when I hear them not syncing up perfectly.

Thanks.

Larry Novik

[David Baay]

Imported MIDI follows the tempo of the project; if the files have the same time signature, they should automaticaly sync unless they weren't recorded to a click. It's possible to roughly sync such tracks by changing the length of MIDI clips, but ideally you should get each of them in sync with the timeline at a common tempo in individual projects before bringing them together.

[Promidi]

Personally I just use the MP3 as a reference and, by ear, hand sequence the entire song as MIDI.

[57Gregy]

9 hours ago, LNovik@aol.com said:

I'm doing an instrumental song cover where the main verse has 3 separate tracks playing in harmony. That is, Jessica by the Allman Brothers. I know I can use Audio Snap or Vocal sync with audio tracks. But I have recorded these tracks first in MIDI so that I can edit them more easily. I also realize I could prob just convert each MIDI track to an audio track, and then sync them all with the above tools. But I would think syncing them first in MIDI would sound best. Does anyone know any method to sync these 3 MIDI tracks. Or, at least, the main verses (sections) of 3 different MIDI tracks. If not, I guess I can simply listen carefully to all the tracks and adjust notes manually when I hear them not syncing up perfectly.

Thanks.

Larry Novik

You can Ctrl Drag the first melody clip to the required number of MIDI tracks then manually adjust the notes to harmonize with the first or use the Transpose MIDI plug-in to change the harmony tracks.

[LNovik@aol.com]

I have an idea of what everyone's saying, but not sure. I still want this to be ME playing the parts, though I will be adjusting some of the notes. I think I'll just continue to critically listen to the song sections, and when I hear anything that stands out as being early or late, I'll just manually adjust the timing of those specific note(s.)

Thanks for the feedback.

Larry Novik

[David Baay]

2 hours ago, LNovik@aol.com said:

I think I'll just continue to critically listen to the song sections, and when I hear anything that stands out as being early or late, I'll just manually adjust the timing of those specific note(s.)

From your original post, I got the impression that the tracks were wildly out of sync or drifting apart over time. If there are just some small timing errors of individual notes, what you want to use is Process > Quantize (or Groove Quantize if you want to use one of the tracks as a reference for quantizing the others rather than quantizing everything towards the M:B:T grid).