Drum mapping

Choose each kit piece's line, notehead, key and pad, add pieces, and keep your kits in the Library.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

A drum track’s mapping says, for each piece of its kit, where it sits on the staff, how its notehead looks, which key writes it and which pad it has. Each drum track has its own, the standard kit until you change it.

Opening Drum Mapping

Drum Mapping opens from:

• the gear at the right of the drumpad;
• the Drum Mapping button of a drum track, in the tracks column at the left, widened;
• a drum note’s popup (the note selected, then the capsule): the button at the right of the piece’s name, Drum Mapping… at the end of the name’s menu, or Add to Kit… on a note the kit has no piece for.

It shows the drumpad’s grid at the top and the kit’s instruments under it. Apply keeps what you changed, Cancel leaves the mapping as it was.

The kit's instruments

TapClick an instrument, in the list or on the grid, to set:

• Name and Short Name: what the pads, the keypad and the popup show.
• MIDI Note: the sound it plays, General MIDI’s drum numbers.
• Notehead: Default, X, Circle X, Diamond, Plus or Open Diamond.
• Staff Line: its line or space, on a small staff.
• Keypad Button: the key that writes it, Key 0 to Key 9, Alt 0 to Alt 9, or None.

Remove Instrument takes it out of the kit, and All Instruments goes back to the list. Under the list, Add Instrument adds a piece by its General MIDI name, and Reset to Standard gives the track the standard kit back.

The drumpad's pads

The grid at the top is the drumpad, two rows of pads:

• Drag an instrument from the list onto a pad to put it there, or a pad onto another to swap them.
• − and + take a column away or add one, from 4 to 16.
• Clear Drumpad empties it, and Reset to Defaults lays it out again, cymbals on the top row and drums on the bottom.
• Touch and holdControl-click a pad for Clear Slot.

Kits in the Library

The tray at the top right keeps mappings in your Library: Save Current… names this one and saves it, and a saved one loads onto the track; Delete… removes one from the Library. A kit you built once is then one tap away on every score.