Reference Guide

760 Drum maps and the Drum Grid pane
The basics
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 765
“Opening a drum map” on page 765
“To preview a mapped sound” on page 768
Creating and editing a drum map
You can create a drum map by either modifying an existing drum map or by creating a new drum
map.
See:
“The Drum Map Manager” on page 760
“The Map Properties dialog” on page 763
“Saving a drum map” on page 764
The Drum Map Manager
In the Drum Map Manager dialog box you can create and save drum maps for use with hardware or
software synths and samplers. You can customize drum maps to select specific sounds on any of
your available sound sources.
To open the Drum Map Manager dialog
You can open the Drum Map manager in one of the following ways: