Maybe this is obvious to others but I can’t figure out how to add a left kick drum and have it alternate between it and the right kick drum.
I have a standard drum kit (Metal Organic preset). I want to add a left kick drum. In the ‘Drums’ tab, I click on ‘Add instrument->Search For Instrument’, and find another kick drum I like. I then select it and press the ‘Add Instrument’ button. I now see it in the top left corner of the Drum Tab (instead of next to the right kick drum). The left kick has midi note 35 assigned to it by default. The right kick has midi note 36 assigned to it by default). I selected each kick drum and tried to both check and uncheck ‘Use Alternate Hits’ in the ‘Hit Variation’ menu. When I press play I only visually see the right-kick drum animated. I do not hear the left kick drum at all. All kick notes are being played by the right kick drum.
I’m not sure the MIDI file itself is the issue, because I can load a sound library that has 2 kick drums (Metalheads EZX default preset) and it plays fine. That being said…If I open the midi file in the grid editor there is 1) a kick dropdown, and inside it there is only an option for ‘right’ and 2) an ‘Instrument 1’ dropdown, and inside it there is only an option for ‘left’. Perhaps this has something to do with it? I was hoping it could read a single line for ‘kick’ and distribute it between left/right kicks. If that’s the case I’m not exactly sure how to correctly separate the track.
The only difference I could tell with the other sound library is that they had the kick drums switched (left/right) and one of them had a midi mapping for both 34 and 35, while the other kick had a midi mapping for 36. The ‘Use Alternate Notes’ was checked on both kicks. I tried both of these settings but no luck. I looked into the Mixer tab and saw there were blue mics columns for KD Left, KD Right and KD Trigger. I tried to mimic them and assign the route to them but no luck.
If that’s not it, I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
E-drummers who play a single bassdrum pad can have a A-B alternation kick engine with any (kick)drums of their choice: I’ve built a midi engine which is available for the DAWs ( “Cubase Artist/Pro” , “Logic Pro X” , “Reaper” , “Bidule” ). And for Single Bassdrum parts (on which you want to stop the alternating engine so that only one kick sound remains) you can toggle the engine by pad stroke ( = dedicated control pad/zone (i.e. floor tom rim) which can also additionally be mapped to a sound / of course toggling while playing) and have the 1-sound kick again. Hitting the same control pad/zone again will activate the A-B-alternation engine again. For further info check the Facebook group “The Software Drumming Forum – tips & tricks + discussing drum samplers”. 
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Thanked by: Jeremy_46
