Why can't velocity information be extracted from this kick drum loop?

Question

I wanted to apply the groove of a downloaded kick drum loop to my own kick sound. The plan was to convert the loop’s audio, which happened to be in stereo, to MIDI and then simply hot swap the instrument with my own kick. Unfortunately, what I saw was this:

I figured the problem was related to the stereo nature of the audio file, so I exported it in mono and then returned the file to my session. To my surprise, converting the mono audio file to MIDI gave the same result.

My backup plan was to extract the groove from the audio file to use with my already-programmed, beat-matched kick pattern. To my dismay, the extracted groove did not contain any velocity information, as my kick pattern, despite being “committed” to the loop’s groove, remained the exact same.

How can I go about lifting the groove/velocity information from the original audio (which for some reason is divided into three separate slices when converted to MIDI) in order to improve my own MIDI kick pattern?

For additional info, here's what the original drum loop looked like prior to exporting:

I appreciate any and all suggestions.

Per @Todd, here is what the Midi notes look like within the drum rack device (the "active" hits marked with red circles):

I swapped in Ableton's 707 drum rack, which I like, and I routed all hits to the same instrument (Kick 707 1):

The resulting sound works (it grooves just like the loop, but sounds like the 707--success!), but I still feel on edge not understanding the mechanics at play.

Note: Isolating the slice with the most velocity information, as evidenced by the varying shades of pink, resulted in a far quieter, incomplete sound. I'm also just noticing that "F#1" seems to be relatively uniform in width and shade whereas "D1" and "Slice 1" differ in shade and width. In the case of the first hit, "D1" is empty.

Thoughts?

Update: I confirmed that I am (and have been) choosing the "drums" option. See here:

Answer 1

Looking at the comments, I think your real question is:

Why are there three separate hits per kick?

I'm pretty sure this is because of the way Live analyzes and converts audio to MIDI. The two MIDI note events are possibly Live's attempt at figuring out what instrument(s) are playing. If it's a bright kick sound in the recording, Live might have interpreted that as two kit pieces hit at once, like kick and high hat or even floor tom and snare. The "slice" MIDI notes should be playing the slices of audio taken from the actual audio file.

If I were in your shoes, I would consider this a successful MIDI conversion because the timing and velocities are there. I would copy the MIDI clip and delete two of the rows of hits and leave only one row - probably the row that has the most appropriate velocity data for the groove I want. Then I would convert the edited clip to a groove.

One thing that would help understand what the three MIDI notes are is a view (screenshot?) of the drum rack, sampler/simpler, or whatever device or virtual instrument Live has inserted on the track. Then you can see for certain what each of the MIDI notes triggers.