Can Machinedrum send pattern as midi?

Elektron Gear Machinedrum
#1

Hi there,

Is it possible to send or dump pattern info (track and gate) as midi? I’m not talking about patterns created as a midi track, I’m talking about trig/instrument patterns that I’d like to manipulate outside of the Machinedrum.

Thanks!

#2

The MD has no native means for generating a standard MIDI file.

Your options would be to either:

  • dump pattern(s) from the MD as MIDI SysEx file(s) and use software to generate a standard MIDI file
    or
  • record the output of the MD into another MIDI sequencer
#3

Thank you, Peter.

Can you recommend software for generating MIDI from SysEx?

How do you suggest recording the output into a sequencer? Do you mean record the audio and attempt to convert it to midi?

#4

You would write the software yourself. Reading @void jpenca’s code on GitHub would be instructive.

No. Record the MIDI output into a MIDI sequencer that can output standard MIDI files.

#5

I think the best would be to replace all instruments by mid instruments (all playing instrument of your pattern replace by mid 01, for example) with differents note (c2 for Bd, D2 for snare etc…) and then record mid out of your MD into mid in of witch ever sequencer you want (MnM, Pyramid or computer) and then play.

It’s done :slight_smile:

Edit :
Oups, didnt see Peter answer. Well done.

#6

Excellent, thank you!

Edit: Thanks both of you :slight_smile:

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