User Manual

DRUM EDITOR
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Playback device
Just to the right of the track name is the MIDI
playback device and MIDI channel for the track. If
no device is selected, you’ll see dashes. Click on the
playback device to open a menu of MIDI devices.
This list of devices is supplied by your MIDI device
configuration (Setup menu > Bundles > MIDI
Devices tab).
Default patch/drum kit
At the far right of each Track row is the default
patch (drum kit) that is currently selected for the
track. If no drum kit is currently chosen, you’ll see
dashes. Click on this area of the row to choose a
default patch or drum kit.
Parent track selecting/highlighting
Parent track names in the Drum Editor highlight
when there is a selection in the track, just like in the
other editors. Similarly, you can click (or Shift-
click or Command/Ctrl-click) the track names in
the Drum Editor to include the track in (or exclude
it from) the current time range selection.
Working with the note list
As shown in
Figure 41-5 on page 437
, each note is
displayed below its parent MIDI track. Here is a
summary of the settings in each row for each note
(instrument).
Move handle
Drag the move handle up or down to move the
instrument in the list. You can’t drag pitches above
their parent track in the list or below the next track
in the list.
You can also use the move handle to add one or
more selected notes to an existing group. To do so,
select the notes you want to add, and then
Command/Ctrl-Option/Alt-drag one of their
move handles and drop them into the group.
Play button
Mutes and unmutes the instrument (pitch), even if
it resides in the same track as other MIDI pitches.
Pitch (instrument)
Displays the MIDI note for the row. To change the
pitch (instrument), click on this box and drag up/
down, or type in a new pitch, or play a new pitch
from your MIDI controller. The MIDI notes in the
grid will be transposed to the new pitch.
Name
Displays the name for the MIDI pitch as
determined by the MIDI instrument and drum kit
to which the parent track is currently assigned. A
drum kit must be assigned to the parent track for
note names to appear. If Digital Performer doesn’t
know the factory-supplied names for the device,
and if you haven’t typed in a name yet, the MIDI
pitch is displayed here instead (e.g. ‘C3’). If it does
not allow you to type in a note name, you need to
choose a patch for the note’s parent device (in the
Patch column). For further details, see “Working
with note names” on page 441.
Click the pitch name to select the instrument row.
Double-click the pitch name to select all notes of
that pitch in the track.
The name column also displays a menu for
changing notes as shown below in Figure 41-6.
This menu is only active if the parent MIDI device
and patch has note names. If so, you can use this
menu to switch the row to a different instrument.
Figure 41-6: Changing an instrument with the note menu.