This just occurred to me while drifting off here at work, I've been using Drumtracker to convert my drum tracks to MIDI but so far have only used it to augment real tracks by feeding the MIDI to apTrigga and loading in whatever samples, the the MIDI note velocity is irrelevant... However, I want to try doing some full replacement with SSD 3.0 and am wondering how it will behave with my MIDI drum tracks... If the hardest hits are only peaking at like -15db on my snare track and I convert that to MIDI, would the MIDI note levels be proportionately innaccurate as compared to the actual drum track? I'm worried that the VSTi will be triggering medium or soft hits for hits that were actually hard hits on the drum track but the software doesn't know that because it's going based off of whatever note velocity was assigned by Drumtracker based on the incoming audio signal...
Short version, does it make sense to normalize the tracks before converting to MIDI to ensure that the loudest hits are converted to the loudest MIDI note velocities possible so I don't have to dick around afterwards manually?
Just to be clear, these original normalized tracks won't end up anywhere in the project at the end of the day, they are being used solely for the purpose of generating MIDI files and then complete replacement, the actual normalized tracks are going straight in the trash...
Short version, does it make sense to normalize the tracks before converting to MIDI to ensure that the loudest hits are converted to the loudest MIDI note velocities possible so I don't have to dick around afterwards manually?
Just to be clear, these original normalized tracks won't end up anywhere in the project at the end of the day, they are being used solely for the purpose of generating MIDI files and then complete replacement, the actual normalized tracks are going straight in the trash...