scook
Modify the master.ins. Update these two sections:
 
1) Create an entry in in ".Note Names" like
[My Drums]
35=Acoustic Bass Drum
36=Bass Drum 1
37=Oink
38=Rooster Crow
....
81=Open Triangle
 
2) Create an entry in ".Instrument Definitions" like
[My Drums]
Patch=1..128
Key[*,*]=My Drums
Drum[*,*]=1

Thank you.  I'll check out instrument defs and how to apply them

rfreeze
The worst part of this is that by following the instructions on the cake site, I ended up with the picture ... but now the drums are silent.

 
Is your MIDI track at the top of the drums folder?
 
It was discovered by brundlefly that the MIDI track needs to be at the bottom of the drums folder in order to work.

And a few posts later Noel said they would look into that problem.

Good to know.  Thanks.  That's one more point that says the display and routing pieces should be uncoupled.
 
 

Hey rfreeze - have you watched my drum maps video.  It shows how to completely use them from setup to routing and whatnot, but the actual setup part is fairly short and not that difficult.  You basically only have to do it once for the basic drum layout you use, assuming that you have any consistency in your song-to-song setup.  Since I've got vDrums, using the drum map is the only way things are usable, and for me, it's always the same map with the sam ins and outs so it's never a problem to setup.
 
Go to this address and spend the few minutes it takes to watch the video.  Hopefully you will get enough from that to quickly understand and build your map: http://blades85.com/music/sonar/88-specific-topics/79-sonar-drum-maps
 
If you have already gone through this and still don't get it, I'm sorry if I've wasted your time! :)

thanks Blades, I'll check it out

scook
Modify the master.ins. Update these two sections:
 
1) Create an entry in in ".Note Names" like
[My Drums]
35=Acoustic Bass Drum
36=Bass Drum 1
37=Oink
38=Rooster Crow
....

 

Blades
Hey rfreeze - have you watched my drum maps video.  It shows how to completely use them from setup to routing and whatnot, but the actual setup part is fairly short and not that difficult.  You basically only have to do it once for the basic drum layout you use, assuming that you have any consistency in your song-to-song setup.  Since I've got vDrums, using the drum map is the only way things are usable, and for me, it's always the same map with the sam ins and outs so it's never a problem to setup.
 
Go to this address and spend the few minutes it takes to watch the video.  Hopefully you will get enough from that to quickly understand and build your map: http://blades85.com/music/sonar/88-specific-topics/79-sonar-drum-maps
 
If you have already gone through this and still don't get it, I'm sorry if I've wasted your time! :)

Great video blades.  The whole drum map process is very fiddly.  The mapping you do to different sample sources is pretty cool, but I still believe it's way too much work to get note names.
 
IMO, it's a waste of time for potentially 100s of users to each do the same basic map creation work.  I can imagine one Cake resource that knows the process really well spending a few minutes, for example, to get AD2 maps created.  To me that makes way more sense than 100s (1000s?) of people each spending a lot longer to get the same end results.  Especially for stuff Cake is going to bundle.  IMO, this is one of those border, differentiating opportunities that has been missed.
 
Oh well.  I guess I'll spend some time wheel-building so I can roll ...
 
Thanks again for the vid

Is this what you want ?

That's how Linplug RMV loads up by default here.  The names are whatever is on the pad.  As mentioned before it's up to the plugin to report note names to the host.  Some don't like EZ Drummer etc........