I have written a small tool to create drum maps for Sonar from an instrument file (or any other text file with lines "note=instrument"). I always found the initial step of adding all the instruments to the drum map the most tedious, with this tool it becomes almost copy/paste if you have a textual description for the mapping.

You can download the "instrument to drum map" tool from my new web site Audible Distortion under "Tools > Cakewalk Sonar". There are also several other just released tools for musicians like an SysEx editor for the Novation Impulse keyboard, musical calculators, and a waltz generator that creates over 759 trillion different waltzes based on a dice game by Mozart.

Cool. Thanks! I'll have to check this out this evening.

Looking forward to hearing some feedback.

ralf
I have written a small tool to create drum maps for Sonar from an instrument file (or any other text file with lines "note=instrument"). I always found the initial step of adding all the instruments to the drum map the most tedious, with this tool it becomes almost copy/paste if you have a textual description for the mapping.

You can download the "instrument to drum map" tool from my new web site Audible Distortion under "Tools > Cakewalk Sonar". There are also several other just released tools for musicians like an SysEx editor for the Novation Impulse keyboard, musical calculators, and a waltz generator that creates over 759 trillion different waltzes based on a dice game by Mozart.

Thanks for this - appreciate your generosity. I also saw the "DLayer" MFX while I was visiting your website. I take it that is 32 bit only?
Thanks again Ralf

The DLayer MFX contains both, a 32bit and a 64bit version.

Looks interesting will give it a try thank you for sharing.

ralf
The DLayer MFX contains both, a 32bit and a 64bit version.

Thank you Ralf. I'll give it a try.
Thanks again for sharing your efforts. Appreciated

Does this mean you know the drum map file format? This tool is unlikely to be any use to me as I don't use Instrument Definitions but I could certainly create a different tool if the format was available.

So... if I can create and prepare data in an excel sheet... could I also use the program to create articulations/keyswitches as drum maps? I'm sure that i have some data for my ewql libraries ready...

Thanks Ralf...

I haven't used any drum maps in a long time, but I'll check out your plugin ASAP... It could be a handy tool to have around as I remember how tedious it was to manually build these within Sonar itself...

Thanks for sharing!

Keni