User manual

Creating new percussion maps
You can create new percussion maps from scratch and you can duplicate existing percussion
maps and edit the settings, for example, to obtain correct playback when using third-party sound
libraries or MIDI devices.
PROCEDURE
1. Choose Play > Percussion Maps to open the Percussion Maps dialog.
2. Create a new percussion map in any of the following ways:
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To create an empty percussion map, click Add Percussion Map in the action bar.
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To create a copy of an existing percussion map, select it in the percussion maps list and
click Duplicate Percussion Map in the action bar.
3. In the Percussion Map Data section, click Lock Info to unlock the elds.
Locked
Unlocked
4. Enter the display name you want for the percussion map in the Name eld.
This name appears in the Endpoint Setup dialog.
5. Enter any unique identication name in the ID eld.
It can be useful to include the instrument and sound library for which you created the map,
as well as your name, in the
identication name for percussion maps, for example,
xmap.user.paulsmith.hso.cowbell.
6. Choose one of the following options for Map denes sounds for, as appropriate for the
current percussion map:
● Multiple Instruments
● Single Instruments
7. In the Drum Kit Note Map section, click Show all to show unmapped notes.
8. Select the row corresponding to the MIDI note for which you want to create a new mapping.
9. In the Edit Drum Kit Note subsection, click the following button beside the Instrument eld
to open a dialog containing a list of percussion instruments.
10. Select the instrument that corresponds to the sound produced by the selected MIDI note.
11. Click OK.
12. In the Edit Drum Kit Note subsection, click the following button beside the Techniques eld
to open the Playing Technique Combinations dialog.
13. Select the appropriate playback playing techniques for the sound produced by the selected
MIDI note.
For example, Ctrl/Cmd -click Buzz roll and Rim.
14. Click OK.
15. In the Edit Drum Kit Note subsection, enter the display name you want for this combination
of instrument and playing technique in the Name eld.
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