this quick tracktion waveform tutorial looks at how to easily export midi so if you've come up
with a midi pattern and maybe you want to load it in another daw or another project
or maybe you just want to save it for later this tracktion waveform tutorial will help also you can
use this to convert step clips into midi clips and i'll show you how to do that too i'm zane
thank you so much for checking out this simple green tech video and just so you know i'm using
tracktion waveform 11 pro for this video but you can do this in waveform free and older versions
of waveform as well so let's dive in alright first i want to note that this does not save the sound
of your vst instrument it only saves the midi information so you can load it into another daw
or another project and add it to whatever vst that you want or you can use this to
easily send your midi to another band member or someone you're collaborating with so you're not
sending the sounds that this is making you're just sending the midi information which is
all of these notes in here to just export a regular midi clip what we want to do
is to click on our midi clip like this and then we're going to go down to export click on
render to a file and then when this render window opens up click here where it says
format and change it to midi and now we have some options so you have only render marked region
so if you have a marked region like i do here i have the start and the end and you had more stuff
in your project that could possibly be rendered but you only want what's in the marked region then
you want to select that if you want everything even what's outside of the marked region
leave that unchecked now you have only render selected clips so i have this clip selected so
we would only render this but if you had a whole track full of clips and i'll show you right now
so if you had a track that was full of a bunch of clips like say maybe one's verse chorus something
else something else or you just have a bunch of small regions that loop and you want to save all
of this into one file then you want to make sure that it's all selected and an easy way to do that
is click on the first one then hold down shift on your computer keyboard and click on the last
one and now you can see it's selected all of them and then we can go back into the export render to
a file so if you wanted all of that you could leave only render selected clips check but if
you had a bunch of clips and you wanted them all rendered then you could uncheck this and then you
might want to do render each track to a separate file so if you had more tracks that had midi on it
and you wanted each one to be rendered to a separate file you would check that then you have
this over here this is the pass through plug-ins and you'll notice when i hover over top of it
you can see that it now says note that many plug-ins will swallow any midi data that passes
into them so if you leave this checked you're actually not going to get any midi out possibly
most of the time i've found that you don't get midi out so just leave this unchecked then there's
also this render at one times play speed and this is just in case your computer has some problems
with rendering quickly so i suggest leaving this unchecked if you have no problems then there's
nothing to worry about if you find that you have problems then go back and check this then the next
thing you might want to do is go up to these dots here click on it click browse and then select a
place to save your new midi clip and you can also give it a name in here so i'm going to give this
a name click save and now we're ready to render this so we would just click render and it was
that quick so depending on how much midi data you're going to be rendering it could be quick
like that or it could take a little bit longer now let's look at that midi clip that we just rendered
so i'm going to open it up into fl studio just to show you it's the exact same clip but we're just
changing daws so we go up to file import midi file there's my piano clip now i just drag it into here
double click and there is our midi clip that we just rendered and you can see all of the
velocity data and everything is still in there everything's the same as the exact same midi clip
so all we would have to do is just insert a piano plugin and we can play it back
and there you go so like i said earlier another use for this could be changing step clips into
midi clips and one of the great things about working with a step clip is that they allow you to
easily create drum patterns but you may eventually want to have that pattern in the piano roll for
editing later or again to send to someone else or use it in a different daw so let's look at
converting a step clip into a midi clip so i'm just going to drag a new step clip down into here
you can see we have bass drum so i'll put a bass
snare bass snare nothing fancy here and then we'll just put some high hats in here all
right so that's our step clip there and one thing you'll notice when you create one bar
in a step clip is that it it actually repeats it so if you want all of this all four of these
bars here not just the one then make sure you have the whole region selected here like this
by moving your marked region markers up at the top here then we'll just export it like
we did before so we click export render to a file make sure your format is a midi file
and then you want the only render marked region which is
this region here and you also want to render each track to a separate file because we do have two
tracks here and i don't have any of them selected so this time it's actually going to render both
of these tracks to separate files and that's all we need to worry about for the settings i'll just
change where i'm going to save it then click render you can see on my desktop here i have
two patterns that it saved so it has track one which would be that piano pattern from before
and then track two which is our drum clip and i'm going to load that into fl studio again
here's our drum pattern that i just created in that step clip in waveform so what we'll need
to do in here is just add a drum plug-in like the fpc that comes with fl studio and now we'll listen
well that's the drum beat that i came up with i wasn't really listening to it i was just showing
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon