bringing MIDI drums to the masses
MIDI DRUMS - VIOLINS - GUITAR - SAXAPHONE - BRASS -
first -
how to set up N to play GM MIDI DRUMS using a MIDI keyboard -
if you want to try out an idea and dont want to commit to a SPECIALIST DRUM replacement application, you can - N track has a 47 drum and percussion kit built in -
in my many incarnations on this board, i have never heard from anybody who has tried this, so heres how -
insert a blank MIDI track, in the preference panel set the CHANNEL BOX TO
10 -
now open the piano roll - left click IN the keyboard, from the POPUP box select GENERAL MIDI DRUMS - now use the ZOOM IN icon to bring the drum list into focus (IE you can read them ) DONT FORGET TO SET MIDI OUT to the M$oft wavetable synth - click on LIVE and you should have drums galore -
now you need to know what key on your keyboard play what drum -
GM Level 1 Percussion Map
NOTE NUMBER
Drum Sound
35 Acoustic Kick
51 Ride Cymbal
67 High Agogo
36 Kick 1
52 Chinese Cymbal
68 Low Agogo
37 Side Stick
53 Ride Bell
69 Cabasa
38 Acoustic Snare
54 Tambourine
70 Maracas
39 Hand Clap
55 Splash Cymbal
71 Short Whistle
40 Electric Snare
56 Cowbell
72 Long Whistle
41 Low Floor Tom
57 Crash Cymbal
73 Short Guiro
42 Closed Hi-Hat
58 Vibraslap
74 Long Guiro
43 High Floor Tom
59 Ride Cymbal
75 Claves
44 Pedal Hi-Hat
60 *** Hi Bongo ***
76 Hi Wood Block
45 Low Tom
61 Low Bongo
77 Low Wood Block
46 Open Hi-Hat
62 Mute Hi Conga
78 Mute Cuica
47 Low-Mid Tom
63 Open Hi Conga
79 Open Cuica
48 Hi-Mid Tom
64 Low Conga
80 Mute Triangle
49 Crash Cymbal 1
65 High Timbale
81 Open Triangle
50 High Tom
66 Low Timbale –
*** middle C *** (on my kbd)
sorrry the list does not look good - its correct in the input page but something does not translate correctly when it get here -
so there you are - as N now records MIDI LIVE you can lay down a drum demo track as easy as can be -
BUT - MIDI keyboards are meant to play keyboard based instruments and nothing else - the more you progress with MIDI the more you will find that you just cannot control anything that does not have a keyboard, think, All string instruments, all brass, all percussion etc -
NOW WHY -
well when you press a key on any MIDI kbd there will be a time delay between you pressing the key down and the contact under the key closing, no matter how fast you press the key down there will still be a delay - so what is the answer -
this is what i have, and it works - there are others available, (thats what GOOGLE is for)
http://www.dv247.com/invt/26289/
OK, so it only has 16 pads but you can program banks and banks of 16 notes a time and changing between banks is very fast - these pads are far faster to work that a key board so you can really get into articulatng an instrumant -
M.R.
Nice to have that info - thanks Wabbitt.
Quote:
this is what i have, and it works - there are others available, (thats what GOOGLE is for)
Well - that would be the
M-Audio Trigger Finger 16-Pad Midi Drum Control Surface
which is probablly available at
Sweetwater.com
Right?
Poppa?