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The MIDI editors
Working with drum maps
Ö To select the same MIDI channel for all sounds in a drum map, click in the Channel
column, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and select the desired channel. All drum sounds are
set to this MIDI channel. The same procedure can be used for selecting the same
MIDI output for all sounds as well.
It can also be useful to select different channels and/or outputs for different sounds.
This allows you to construct drum kits with sounds from several different MIDI devices,
etc.
Managing drum maps
Selecting a drum map for a track
To select a drum map for a MIDI track, use the Map pop-up menu in the Inspector or
in the Drum Editor.
Selecting “No Drum Map” turns off the drum map functionality in the Drum Editor.
Even if you do not use a drum map, you can still separate sounds by name using a
name list (see
“Using drum name lists” on page 522).
The Drum Map Setup dialog
To set up and manage your drum maps, select Drum Map Setup from the Map pop-up
menu or the MIDI menu. This opens the following dialog:
This is where you load, create, modify, and save drum maps. The list on the left shows
the currently loaded drum maps; selecting a drum map in the list displays its sounds
and settings on the right.
Ö The settings for the drum sounds are exactly the same as in the Drum Editor (see
“Drum map settings” on page 518). As in the Drum Editor, you can click the leftmost
column to audition a drum sound.
Ö If you audition a sound in the Drum Map Setup dialog and the sound is set to MIDI
output “Default”, the output selected on the Output pop-up menu in the lower left
corner is used. When auditioning a default output sound in the Drum Editor, the MIDI
output selected for the track is used, as described in section
“The Channel and
Output settings” on page 519.
!
Initially, the Map pop-up menu only contains one map: “GM Map”. However, a number
of drum maps are included on the program DVD – how to load these is described
below.