Remapping MIDI Note Numbers just for one preset?

[Neil Zaza]

Hello,

 

A quick (and hopefully easy) MIDI mapping question regarding SD3…

 

I am using a Presonus Atom for a pad controller and it does not allow me to reassign MIDI note numbers/notes to outgoing notes. Basically, you are stuck with their configuration. I want to arrange the pads in the way I like to work, but can’t do it at the Atom so I need to do it within SD3.

If I remap drums to match certain MIDI note numbers on my Atom, I can get everything to work correctly to input MIDI date. The issue comes in that playing old sessions that I used SD3 will not play back correctly because of the different MIDI note assignments.

Can I change the MIDI note numbers in SD3, but they will only be good for a certain SD3 preset and not carry into other sessions that I have?

I hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for any help on this subject.

 

Neil

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[Olof Westman]

There are two MIDI mappings in SD3.

1. Articulations can have MIDI notes assigned to them. This mapping is part of the “Drums and Mixer Presets”. You would use it when you Add new Instruments and assign MIDI notes to their articulations. Think of this as adjusting the sounds to the MIDI in the Grooves browser and on the Song Track inside SD3, we call this GM-Extended.

E.g. let’s say you want to add a couple of toms, then these will need to have some MIDI notes assigned. Or let’s say you want to make a “christmas kit” and so you add som Bells and then kidnap various MIDI notes from other instruments so that they play Bells instead.

2. Incomming MIDI can be transformed to suit various MIDI sources. These sources can be things like e-drums and keyboards or just MIDI from other vendors. You find this (rather mysteriously) in Settings>MIDI In/E-drums. You map the incomming MIDI notes from your Atom so that they conform to the MIDI used inside SD3, GM-Extended. Then you save this mapping as a preset and you make use of it whenever you use your Atom.

Both MIDI mappings are part of a project savefile, the total state of SD3.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
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[Neil Zaza]

Thank you so much. Yes, the important thing for me was to be able to adjust so that the input into SD3 with the Atom gets the right drums, but that I am able to play  back old sessions in Studio One with the VST version of SD. Sort of mixing old and new worlds of controllers.

Thanks!

[Magical Dog]

Neil Zaza wrote:

Thank you so much. Yes, the important thing for me was to be able to adjust so that the input into SD3 with the Atom gets the right drums, but that I am able to play  back old sessions in Studio One with the VST version of SD. Sort of mixing old and new worlds of controllers.

Thanks!

 

Hi there Neil Zaza !

 

I am very keen on the Atom but I heard that colour coded pads wont work with SD3 ???

Is that true ???

 

Cheers !

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Don’t know where you heard that one. I have two colour coded MIDI controllers (Maschine and Maschine Mikro) and they play with SD3 very nicely. Any MIDI controller should be able to be configured to work with SD3.

jord

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