User guide

Chapter 33 Working With Notation 793
Mapped staff styles allow you to assign individual voices to drum groups. Drum groups
use specific drum notation head shapes to display note events. You can define the
respective drum note head shapes in a Mapped Instrument window.
The best way to create drum notation for an existing MIDI region, is to open the Score
Editor (to display the MIDI region), the Mapped Instrument window, and the Staff Style
window. This way, you can directly see how parameter changes affect the score display.
Prior to defining the details of a mapped staff style, you should set up all drum groups,
note head shapes, and relative note position parameters in the Mapped Instrument
window.
To create a mapped staff style for drum notation:
1 Create a mapped instrument in the Environment (see “Mapped Instruments” on
page 907), then double-click its icon.
The Mapped Instrument window opens. Its default settings correspond to the General
MIDI drum note assignments, but they can be edited.
In the columns to the far right, there are three parameters relevant to notation: