Use a multipad in style creator?

[maarkr]

There are some nice guitar rhythms in multipads.  Any way to insert a multipad into a channel in style creator?  or even import a midi file into a channel?

[pedro_pedroc]

Hello.

Inside style creator (using the keyboard), I think it's not possible... not 100% sure.

Pedro

[kevin.dsouza]

You would have to record the multipad segment as a midi, then use a midi2style program to convert it to a style variation and then import that assembly into the style creator on the keyboard.

The multipad section has such nice parts, they just should have made it easier to import them on the keyboard directly.

[maarkr]

thanks... I can record a audio clip and open it in my DAW and use Melodyne to split out the midi.  I couldn't figure out how to get that into a part until reading your post.  There are many nice guitar strumming patterns including those using the built-in arpeggiator strum, but they won't to into the style creator easily, altho I'm getting better at building simple strum patterns from scratch in NTT guitar mode.  Still don't sound like real guitar strums tho.  I'll post back after trying that.

[BogdanH]

I must say that I'm not really a fan of NTR: Guitar mode. The main reason is, because we can't hear actual result unless we exit Style Creator. That is, when we edit in StepEditor, we need to imagine how it will sound -because we need to keep in mind how notes will translate later in style.
The only benefit and the reason why Guitar mode exists is, notes are always translated correctly and so chords sound the same as on real guitar.
But depending on what we wish to achieve, we can get the same/similar result with normal (non Guitar) approach, where we can edit more comfortable.

Bogdan

[pjd]

If the Multipad is MIDI, you might want to consider: Pad Maker MIDI

https://psrtutorial.com/MB/EV_Files/padmakermidi.html

A multipad file contains what amounts to mini Standard Midi Files (SMF MTrk). I haven't tried Pad Maker MIDI, but it seems like a keen way to manipulate multipad MIDI data.

Report back? I'll bet a lot of folks would love to extract strum and picking patterns from multipad MIDI.

All the best -- pj