User Manual

DRUM EDITOR
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2 Click on the pitch box of the blank note and
drag up or down until you hear the drum
instrument you want.
3 Press the return key to confirm your choice.
Adding instruments from your controller
You can quickly add notes from your MIDI
keyboard, drum pad or other MIDI controller
using the Learn Pitches mini-menu command:
1 Make sure that you’ve successfully achieved
MIDI patch thru from your controller to the MIDI
instrument and drum kit patch you’ll be adding
sounds from. You should be able to ‘play’ the
desired drum kit from your controller. You can do
this in the Tracks window by record enabling the
track and choosing the desired patch.
2 Bring the Drum Editor window to the front and
choose Learn Pitches from the Drum Editor
window mini-menu.
3 One at a time, play each desired note from your
controller. As soon as you play the note it will
appear in the list.
4 To confirm your last added note and turn off
Learn Pitches mode, you can choose one of the
following actions: click the mouse, press the return
key, press escape or press Command/Ctrl-period
(.).
Adding a pitch range
The empty note menu (Figure 41-9 on page 440)
has an item called Add Pitch Range. This option lets
you add a range of pitches in the track in one
convenient operation.
Drum Editor drum kit presets
For your convenience, the Drum Editor provides
drum kit presets, which are simply collections of
MIDI pitches that correspond to common drum
kits. Choose a preset drum kit from the Kit menu at
the bottom row of each track. Doing so replaces
any currently visible pitches for that track with the
preset kit pitches.
Figure 41-11: The drum kit presets menu in the Drum Editor.
Saving, renaming and deleting drum kits
To save the current pitches shown in a track as a
drum kit preset, choose Save Drum Kit from the Kit
menu (Figure 41-11). To rename or delete a kit
preset, choose Edit Drum Kits from the Kit menu.
Hiding notes
To hide one or more notes (instrument rows) in the
note list, click their names to highlight them and
choose Hide Selected Pitches from the mini-menu.
As a shortcut, press the delete key.
Showing notes that are currently hidden
If you’re ever in a situation where you’ve got some
existing notes in a track that are not currently being
displayed in the Drum Editor, and you’d like to see
them there, choose the note from the blank note
menu as shown earlier in Figure 41-10 on page 440.
To show all currently hidden notes, choose Show
Pitches for All Notes from the mini-menu.
Working with note names
The Drum Editor is easiest to use when you can see
the actual names of each drum instrument in the
note list. Note names are only displayed for tracks
that have been assigned to a drum kit on one of
your MIDI instruments.