Pick Pocket - Audio to MIDI Drum Plug-In

Capture the feel, swap the sounds

Pick Pocket converts drum audio into MIDI while keeping the human timing and dynamics intact. It detects each hit, sorts it into kick, snare and hi-hat, and records its exact placement and velocity without quantizing. The result is a MIDI performance that grooves like the original player but can trigger any drum instrument.

See and shape the groove

Pick Pocket measures swing, push and drag, and overall tightness so users can see what makes a groove work. A built-in editor allows hits to be reassigned, velocities reshaped, timing adjusted and steps muted, with full note-level MIDI editing. An audition engine plays the extracted MIDI through a drum kit alongside the source audio, which makes it easy to confirm the feel has carried over.

Straight into the session

Audio can be captured directly from a DAW track with automatic loop detection, or loaded from files. MIDI exports unquantized and pre-mapped for Superior Drummer/EZdrummer, BFD3, SSD5, Addictive Drums 2 and General MIDI, or as an Ableton groove file. Activation is one-time and works offline.