Reference Guide

Drum maps and the Drum Grid pane
There are several panes in the Piano Roll view designed for use with MIDI drum tracks: the Note
Map pane which lists the original pitch values and the mapped values for each note, and the Drum
Grid pane which displays your drum tracks (any track assigned to a drum map) and where you can
edit your drum tracks.
See:
“The basics” on page 737
“The Note Map pane” on page 746
“The Drum Grid pane” on page 748
“Creating and editing a drum map” on page 738
“Using drum maps” on page 742
The basics
Drum maps are virtual MIDI ports that you create and edit. Drum maps give you total control over all
the MIDI drum sounds you have access to either in the form of software (soft synths) or hardware
(external MIDI sound modules).
Drum maps in SONAR allow you to do the following:
• Re-map note events, for example, map a General MIDI drum kit to a non-General MIDI drum kit.
• Create a custom drum kit from several MIDI devices (soft synths, hardware synths) and play it
from a single MIDI track if desired.
• Use the Drum Grid Editor to show only the drum sounds you want to see.
• Sort drum sounds to suit your needs.
• Mute and solo individual drum sounds
See:
“Assigning a MIDI track to a drum map” on page 742
“Opening a drum map” on page 742
“To preview a mapped sound” on page 745