How to paste midi notes directly into the grid editor

[idjacobs]

Anyone knows if it’s possible to do a quick-paste of midi notes into the grid editor? For example I have a melody line in one of my other tracks in my DAW (midi) and I want the bass to play the same melody line for one or two bars and do a little editing on the notes in grid editor.  I can’t seem to paste INTO the grid editor? Thanks.

Operating system: Windows 10

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[Scott]

What DAW are you using? Some DAWs allow for dragging MIDI from DAW to the EZbass Song Track. Cubase can do this but I’m not sure which other hosts support this. I don’t think Studio One supports it.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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[idjacobs]

Oh, yes I’m using Studio One Pro.

[Henrik Ekblom]

If you want MIDI notes from Studio One into EZbass, the easiest way is to:

• add the MIDI on the EZbass track in Studio One
• record arm EZbass
• press play in the DAW
• Now the notes will be recorded into the song track of EZbass
• Remove the MIDI from the EZbass track in Studio One
  • so there isn’t MIDI in both in the DAW and EZbass song track

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years ago by Henrik Ekblom.

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[alonsosdp]

Hello!

I am using Reaper as my daw. I have a bassline in midi from a previous bass vsti, but I would like to copy the notes into Ezbass so I am able to do some tweaking in the Ezbass grid editor. I cannot find a way to “import” the bassline into my Ezbass plugin. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you!

Alonso

 

Update: I have found a way to do this. I had to first export the MIDI file from Reaper: File->Export Project MIDI. Then, in the Ezbass plugin, I choose Track-> Import MIDI file and choose the MIDI I exported before :).

EZbass version: 1.0.0
Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by alonsosdp.

[andycamb]

Try using ctl +alt while dragging from Reaper to EZbass. I think that works…

EZbass version: 1.0.5
Operating system: Windows 10

[John]

Hi,

if you have Follow Host Enabled, just record the MIDI from the Reaper Track to the EZbass Song Track; hit Rec in EZbass and then play in Reaper.

Just like Henrik explained above.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[John Grande]

You can also right click the midi file in Studio One and use , export  selection, under event section. Just make sure you choose midi file under the dropdown for save as type. Save as midi file to desktop or wherever you want and then drag into EzBass Drums & Keys.

Be aware…I do not have luck with simple midi bass lines as it always is missing key notes using this method and have not been able to figure out why this happens. Work’s fine with some midi but for me simple b f b f does not translate using the Drum & Keys drag method for bass.

EZbass version: 1.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

[andycamb]

I have Reaper and it has trouble dragging directly from the daw into Ezbass but if you can drag from your daw to another folder, for example the desktop. Then you can drag into Ezbass from there with no issue, at least you can in Reaper. Two drags instead of one but still faster than recording it real time into Ezbass.

Interestingly. I opened  synth plugin that had midi patterns  it, that you could drag onto a Reaper track, so as an experiment I dragged it straight to Ezbass and it worked fine?

Ctl+ left click and drag is how you do it in Reaper.

EZbass version: 1.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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