User Guide

Chapter 10: Built-in Drums 140
Drum Display
All the General MIDI percussion instruments are shown.
Acoustic Bass Drum Bass Drum 1 Side Stick
Acoustic Snare Hand Clap Electric Snare
Low Floor Tom Closed Hi-Hat High Floor Tom
Pedal Hi-Hat Low Tom Open Hi-Hat
Low-Mid Tom Hi Mid Tom Crash Cymbal 1
High Tom Ride Cymbal 1 Chinese Cymbal
Ride Bell Tambourine Splash Cymbal
Cowbell Crash Cymbal 2 Vibraslap
Ride Cymbal Hi Bongo Low Bongo
Mute Hi Conga Open Hi Conga Low Conga
High Timbale Low Timbale High Agogo
Low Agogo Cabasa Maracas
Short Whistle Long Whistle Short Guiro
Long Guiro Claves Hi Wood Block
Low Wood Block Mute Cuica Open Cuica
Mute Triangle Open Triangle
Some percussion instruments are triggered by multiple MIDI notes. When
controlled by more than one MIDI note, a percussion instrument will show
different behavior in response to the different notes. For instance, the Hi-Hat
responds differently to Close Hat, Pedal Hat, and Open Hat MIDI notes.
The on-screen instruments may be played by mouse-click or computer keys.
When playing by mouse-click or computer keys, the shift key adjusts velocity
between two user-specified levels.
Drums that you play show up in blue (the computer played drums are red).
There is an option to display all the QWERTY names on the drums at the same
time, so that you can see what keys to hit without having to mouse over the
instrument. The drums can be moved off-screen without snapping back to the
middle.
To display the QWERTY keys on the notes, select the option in the Drums
Window Settings dialog to “Display QWERTY Chars on Drums.”
Multi-note instruments send different notes depending on where you click on the
instrument. For instance, the Kick Drum can send three different notes, Ac.
Bass Drum (MIDI note 35), Bass Drum 1 (MIDI note 36), and Square Kick
(MIDI Note 32).