The starting point of this example is the drum part taken from the Tyros 60's 8Beat style. The starting point of all examples below is this midl file, corresponding to this midi file.
| Description | Midl source file | Resulting midi file |
| Retaining only drum beats on quarter notes | midl source file | midi file |
| Retaining only drum beats on half notes | midl source file | midi file |
| Retaining eight note beats, but not quarter note beats | midl source file | midi file |
Here follows another thin out example of piano scale with increasing note values and an organ scale with decreasing note values. In this example we use the slightly more advance function thin-out-section-by-bar. Starting point, corresponding to this midi file.
| Description | Midl source file | Resulting midi file |
| Example of thin-out-section-by-bar. | midl source file | midi file |