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The MIDI editors
Working with drum maps
Open the Functions pop-up menu in the top left corner to open a list of available
functionalities:
Ö Drum maps are saved with the project files. If you have created or modified a drum
map, use the Save function to save it as a separate XML file, available for loading into
other projects.
Ö If you always want to have the same drum map(s) included in your projects, you may
want to load these into the template – see
“Save as Template” on page 58.
O-Note Conversion
This function on the MIDI menu goes through the selected MIDI part(s) and sets the
actual pitch of each note according to its O-note setting. This is useful if you want to
convert a track to a “regular” MIDI track (with no drum map) and still have the notes
play back the correct drum sound. A typical application is if you want to export your
MIDI recording as a standard MIDI file (see
“Exporting and importing standard MIDI
files” on page 692) – by first performing an O-Note Conversion you make sure that
your drum tracks play back as intended when they are exported.
Use Head Pairs and Edit in Scores (Cubase only)
These options are explained in detail in the section “Setting up the drum map” on
page 884.
Button Description
New Map Click this to add a new drum map to the project. The drum sounds
are named “Sound 1, Sound 2”, and so on, and have all parameters
set to default values. The map is named “Empty Map”, but you can
rename it by clicking and typing in the list.
New Copy Adds a copy of the currently selected drum map. This is probably the
quickest way to create a new drum map: select the map that is similar
to what you want, create a copy, change the desired drum sound
settings, and rename the map in the list.
Remove Removes the selected drum map from the project.
Load… Opens a file dialog, allowing you to load drum maps from disk. The
Cubase DVD contains a number of drum maps for different MIDI
instruments – use this function to load the desired maps into your
project.
Save… Opens a file dialog for saving the drum map selected in the list. If you
have created or modified a drum map, you can use this function to
save it as a file on disk – this allows you to load it into other projects.
Drum map files have the extension “.drm”.
Edit head pairs… Allows you to customize the note pairs, see “Customizing note head
pairs” on page 885.
Init Display Notes Allows you to reset the Display Notes entry to the original setting, i. e.
the Pitch entry.