Mapped Instrument Objects

The keyboard on the left represents the input notes. It can be played by clicking it. You can also select individual notes or note ranges by dragging the mouse over the notes you want to use. To select multiple notes, Shift-click them. Any value alterations apply to all selected notes.

In the first column, you can click the input note name (E6, for example), and type in a name of up to 12 characters. Press Return or click outside the text entry field to confirm the new name.

You can initialize the names of the selected notes to:

• Pitch descriptions (C#3, for example) by choosing Names as Notes from the Initialize pop-up menu.

• The names of GM Standard drum sounds by choosing Initialize > Names as General MIDI.

If a MIDI region (on a track routed to a mapped instrument object) is displayed in the Piano Roll Editor, the names of the notes being played appear on the vertical keyboard.

This column is used to set the output note. This is done by either:

• Double-clicking the note description and editing the text

• Dragging the beam to the right of the output note name

MIDI notes are sent while the value is being changed, allowing you to hear what you’re doing.

Use the Initialize > Output Notes command to match the output notes of the selected pitches to the input note pitches.

Use to set a velocity offset that is added to, or subtracted from, the velocity of the incoming note. Drag the number vertically to create a velocity offset. You can also click the specific point on the beam.

The Initialize > Output Velocities command resets all velocity offsets to 0 (no offset).

Use to set the MIDI channel of individual notes. This allows you to play individual sounds from different drum sets in the same sound generator.

You will normally use the Base setting. This means that the notes are sent on the channel set in the mapped instrument’s Parameter box. If you choose All in the Parameter box, the channel information of the incoming notes is used. This is useful if you want to place the mapped instrument after a multi-instrument or standard instrument in the signal path.

To set all selected notes to Base, choose Initialize > Output Channels.

You can send individual notes from a mapped instrument object to (up to) 16 different output cables, allowing you to play sounds from different sound sources. If you select a cable that doesn’t exist, the note will not be sent out.

The Initialize > Output Cables command resets all cables to #1 (the top outlet of the Mapped Instrument).

The last three columns define the notation parameters of individual notes.

• Head: This pop-up menu allows you to change the note head.
• Rel. Pos.: This field is used to alter the relative position of the note on the staff. This does not alter the pitch, only the vertical positioning of the note head on a staff in the Score Editor. Drag vertically to alter the note position.
• Group: As the mapped instrument object is typically used for percussion instruments, click-holding the Group field opens a menu of grouped drum families:  Kick, Snare, and so on. MIDI sound modules can have drum sounds mapped across 127 possible notes, which would result in an interesting staff (to say the least). Assign several related percussion sounds (tom drums, for example) to the Toms group to place all related sounds on a single staff line. As with the relative position, the pitch of grouped notes is not affected by grouping them on a single line.

Choosing Initialize > Score Parameters neutralizes the settings of the Head, Rel. Pos., and Group parameters.