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Tutorial 9—Drum Maps
Tutorials
Go to the next step: Create a Drum Track
Create a Drum Track
You can use any blank MIDI track for your drums. If you don’t have a MIDI
track, create using the Insert-MIDI Track command.
To Assign a MIDI Track to a Drum Map
1. Display the Track view if it is minimized.
2. In the track you want to assign to a drum map, click the Output
dropdown and select DM1GM Drums (Complete Kit) from the options
in the menu that appears.
To Create a Drum Track Using the Pattern Brush
1. Select the track you have assigned to a drum map and select Views-
Piano Roll.
The blank drum track appears in the Drum Grid pane of the Piano Roll
view.
2. In the Piano Roll view, click on the down arrow to the right of the Pattern
Brush tool and select Kick+Snare Patterns (R-T)-Stacy 7.
3. Click the down arrow again and select Use Pattern Polyphony. This
option tells SONAR to use the original pitch values when “painting”
notes in the Drum Grid pane.
4. Click on the Pattern Brush to select it.
5. Starting at the beginning of your track, click and drag the Pattern Brush
tool for a few measures in the Drum Grid pane.
A series of notes, at different pitch values appears in the Drum Grid
pane. If you don’t see any notes, scroll down in the Drum Grid to see
the notes.
6. Click the Pattern Brush down arrow again and select Cymbal Patterns
(C-F)-Fill 4.
7. Repeat step 5.
8. Listen to your drum track. Make a mental note of the drum sounds your
hear, because they are about to change.
Now it is time to mix things up a bit. Lets send some of your drum sounds to
a different output.
Next step: Map Drum Notes to Different Outputs