[sayatnova]

Hello Mark,

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. I spent another day trying tp figure this out and I think I have narrowed it down to this:

-Yes, SD3 will play whatever sound has the right note assigned to it. But, I think my issue is that in Live I am trying to use a drum rack to tell SD3 what MIDI note to play via the MIDI send message section for that pads’ MIDI IO chain section. So, I have the drum cell/pad in the drum rack that is set to receive on C1 and I make a chain for this pads’ IO that says this pad receives on C1, but then I can set the note to be sent/played by the MIDI device to be any other note, ex: E2… Basically the drum rack cell in LIVE is rerouting the incoming note message from a MIDI controller, so that the incoming C1 note message is able to be changed to a different note, ex: E2.. The problem is that I have to hit the C1 pad on the Push2 (or any other MIDI controller in my studio) to trigger this drum rack pad (set to receive on C1, but send on E2…) in Live. The result is that SD3 listens to this external MIDI controller and only sees the C1. It ignores the drum racks’ incoming note message that is set to E2… Does this make sense? But, if I trigger the same drum drum rack cell with my mouse in the computer directly (not with an external MIDI controller), it plays the E2 correctly…

I guess it might help to explain what I was thinking of doing, in case there is a better way to think this? I am not a drummer, and this is my first VI I am using… Basically, I was trying to cherry pick 16 sounds out of the 127 in each SDX package SD3 (spread all over the place!) and have those mapped to one custom bank of the 16 pads in my MIDI controller to be grouped right next to each other and be able to just quickly use that bank of 16 to enter in my playing. I could always go back and use my keyboard or the Push in 64 pad mode for more detail if I needed it (or just move it around in the DAW). But, I probably won’t need the level of complexity for most of my general sketches and workflow. A good, solid 16 sounds would do it just fine. This was the exercise.

Maybe, instead of trying to get LIVE to do this, it might be better/easier to just create a custom mapping in SD3, as if my external MIDI controllers are an e-drum kit? Just thought of this, now… I believe the custom mapping would be save with the project and would be bale to be saved as a preset in SD3?

Any thoughts or suggestion would be very welcome and appreciated.

Thank you for your help and time.

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