Tips for creating drum maps faster?

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2012/09/08 04:13:24 (permalink)

Tips for creating drum maps faster?

I'm creating drum maps for my orchestral libraries and a couple others that uses lots of keyswitches so I can name the keyswitches (to many to remember them all) but damn, this is taking forever.

Everything defaults when adding a new note in  the DM editor so doing a whole 88 keyboards worth I need to change the channel and output for each one (88 keys) * however many instruments I need to do = murder.

Isn't there anyway to just tell Sonar to default to the last selected channel and output? I've tried shift/control clicking to select a range but no joy

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    SToons
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    Re:Tips for creating drum maps faster? 2012/09/08 04:47:01 (permalink)
    Ctrl+Shift as you select the Output Port. You don't need to select a range first.
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    Re:Tips for creating drum maps faster? 2012/09/08 05:16:48 (permalink)
    Oh yeah, that's the stuff :D

    Thanks, saved me some grey hairs there.

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    Re:Tips for creating drum maps faster? 2012/09/08 06:05:16 (permalink)
    Hi Kenneth.

    I believe it was you I was talking to last night about creating drum maps.

    Here's the link to the post I made - it's long winded but precise and takes much less time to do in practice than it does to read the thing:

    http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=2541513&mpage=1#2550531


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    Re:Tips for creating drum maps faster? 2012/09/08 06:31:36 (permalink)
    Tips for creating drum maps faster?


    Get Cakewalk to revamp the interface for creating them!

    It's an awesome midi routing matrix controlled by a Windows 3.1 looking vintage interface that is fiddly to set up.

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    In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves" - Banksy
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    Re:Tips for creating drum maps faster? 2012/09/08 07:15:33 (permalink)
    Thanks Jonesey, will give that a read.

    But yeah, the drum map editor seems like a leftover from win3.1 era, anyone remember program manager, moving to a new hard drive? Just copy C:\ and change the drives

    Now where's my walker, and my glasses, and someone answer that damn phone (Seinfeld reference)

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