Pick Pocket - Audio to MIDI Drum Plug-In

Steal the pocket from any drum groove. Pick Pocket listens to a beat — a Vault loop, your own audio, or whatever's playing on a track in your DAW — and hands you its feel as MIDI: every hit's timing and velocity, unquantized. The feel stays. The sounds become yours.

How it works

1. Feed it a groove. Capture audio straight off a DAW track, drop in any loop, or browse the built-in Vault library.
2. See the pocket. Every hit detected and classified — kick, snare, hat — with swing, push/drag, and tightness measured to the millisecond.
3. Make it yours. Re-voice hits, sculpt velocities, nudge timing, mute steps, edit the MIDI note-by-note. Audition the groove through a real kit — solo, or layered over the original.
4. Drag it out. Unquantized MIDI straight onto your timeline, pre-mapped for Superior/EZdrummer, BFD3, Slate SSD5, Addictive Drums 2, General MIDI — or as an Ableton .agr groove file.

What's inside

• Capture from track — record any DAW track through the plugin, with automatic loop detection (finds the clean 2, 4, or 8 bars and cuts them click-free)
• A real groove editor — click to re-assign voices, drag velocities, reshape timing dot-by-dot, mute steps, add/move/delete MIDI notes with full multi-select
• Audition engine — hear the extracted MIDI through a Yurt Rock kit, layered in lockstep with the original: if it sounds doubled, the pocket transferred
• The Vault, built in — browse and audition the full Yurt Rock catalog inside the plugin; Vault members extract any loop's groove instantly
• Starter grooves included — real loops from Nate Smith, Clyde Stubblefield, Marcus Finnie, and Darren King, ready to explore the moment it opens
• Session-friendly — your work saves with the DAW project; works fully offline after activation; use on up to 3 machines

Free for Vault members

Have a Vault membership? Pick Pocket is included — just sign in inside the plugin. Members also unlock groove extraction from the entire catalog: over 190 packs of session-drummer feel, one drag away.

Compatibility

• Formats: VST3 and AU (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, and more)
• Platform: macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon & Intel) and Windows 10+ (64-bit). Pro Tools (AAX) support coming.
• Exports: Standard MIDI (.mid) with sampler keymaps, Ableton groove files (.agr)

FAQ

Does it work offline? Yes. Activate once, then Pick Pocket never needs the internet to run — made for studios that stay disconnected. No dongles, no iLok.

How many machines? Three, with self-serve deactivation.

Do I need a Vault membership? No — the $49 license is yours forever, fully functional on your own audio. Membership adds catalog extraction (and includes the plugin itself).

Can I try it first? The free download runs the full analyzer and editor on the included starter grooves and your own loops — only exporting requires activation.

Manual

The complete Pick Pocket guide — installation, activation, capturing from a track, the groove editor, exporting MIDI and Ableton grooves, the full DAW workflow, and troubleshooting: read the Pick Pocket Manual.