This is wonderful. I am so grateful for you posting this very detailed video. I was suffering making my kit trigger correctly and this is heaven. I wouldn't manage to solve it in 1000 years without your help. Thank you so much, really means a lot.
Got there in the end. It was quite a struggle. Loaded up the drum map for MT Power Drums and got it working feeding individual drums to separate audio tracks. Very pleased.
Where was this months ago?... Thank you so much for this. Best explanation I've seen so far. With more than just steps but explanations on why we're doing things. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for yet another great video! Cheers from France! I hope you're not affected by the fires in your country. All my wishes to your fellow men and women.
Thank you! Also thanks for asking. So far in my state we've had some reasonably large fires, but not like those near Sydney. For us personally, just some smoke sometimes. Fingers crossed for the rest of the season.
Huge thanks - I was missing the step about pointing the midi to the drum map. Works like a charm, now! As always, brilliantly and clearly explained. Mike - You're a legend. Cheers mate.
NICE explanation. I would have NEVER figured this out without your help! I'm limping along now and getting used to Cakewalk. It would be nice to have a video where it shows us how to create our own drum map versus downloading yours. BUT, This is getting me to where I need to be to start really working with the the SI and Drum Pro 64 drum kits and the step sequencer!! THANK YOU!!!
Really helpful video. Great to have a channel dedicated to my DAW of choice showing me how to do all those things I never got round to reading the instructions for (even though I've been using Sonar/Cakewalk for many years). This will be a real time saver.
Yet another good, well explained video. Creating a drum map line by line can be boring even if you are learning. Been there, done that years ago. Thanks again Mike. Tony.
Altho' I'm still using Sonar X3, most of your tutorials apply! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Your tutorials are excellent! So glad to have "found" you!
So great! Thank you so much!! Best Software teacher out there!! I should have had you as my teacher at school 50 years ago i am shure there had been much more fun that ist was. 👋❤🌞🥇🏆
Thanks Mike. I really enjoy your tutorials and., I must admit, I also tap my finger in the air with the snare on your opening theme. Also on the bell.😁 Hope you don't mind. Please make a tutorial on plugging in Ample Bass to Cakewalk? I can't get the sound out of the bass guitar plugin. Thanks a million👍
Hi Mike. Useful info. A couple of notes about my experience with the Cakewalk version I downloaded a week or two ago: 1) It seems that the drum map view doesn't replace the piano roll view: it just adds it higher up in the window. So you may have to scroll to find it. This had me scratching my head for a while! 2) If I want to rearrange the order of the rows, it doesn't work if I click on the 'name' field of the row: I had to click on the 'note' field. (Looked a bit different in your version)? 3) A useful discovery: once the drum map is installed, the 'step sequencer' view picks up the drum names on the left hand side. Handy! Keep up the good work... Cheers!
I am a drummer and I use a digital drum kit to add drum tracks to songs in Cakewalk. I need a program that will enable me to tell the system that "when I hit this drum, play this sound". I thought, by the name, a drum map might do that, but it does not. Session Drummer doesn't do it because you can't change the inputs and my inputs don't match theirs. I'm hoping this exists and you can help me find it. Thanks. Your videos are extremely useful.
@OvernightOats1 I'm wanting to use a drum map with my Roland td-17kvx, without using a vst drum kit. I'm assuming this is what you're trying to do with your e drum kit. Have you figured out how to do this?
Great info on the additional kits (and all SI instruments). It also brings up a question. If I change kits, will the Drum Mapping still be correct, for the different drum kits? Thx again.
Great video! Why isn't there a way to just import drum map to the actual instrument channel itself. to me it's a cluttery workaround, i can select a bunch of general midi crap though. thanks again for your work!! (and also sorry if this is explained earlier)
a little hint to open the roaming folder very quickly: Press the Windows-key + R, enter %appdata%, press enter or OK and there you are. This works even if you have not activated to show the hidden folders :-) ...and you can enter %appdata% in the folder or filename fields of the most file requester windows...
Mikee, I followed the instruction perfectly, but the piano roll will not replace with DM1-SI Drum Kit? I am on 11 and I use both cakewalk and Sonar Platinum
Thanks again.I am a percussionist and trying to build up a percussion song. So rythm1 + break 1 + rythm2 + break2 etc. So i thought the way would be to program these in the step sequencer as clips and arranging them in the arranger. Is that the way? Do you have a RUclips video on that?
Is there a drum map for Addictive Drums 2? I have Jamstix 4 I use with it with AD2. Sure would be much easier to have a drum map instead of bouncing around to find drum pieces as I do now
Hello dear sir, I' m new in the ''world'' of cakewalk so i have a question about midi drums map. So for every time we want to write midi drums we have to add a drum map? And also for every else drum kit? Thanks for your help and your time and i feel sorry for my not so good English. Thanks again
Great tutorial. Been using cakewalk for over 20 years and this is new to me! (even though drum-maps was available many editions ago) I think once set up, this should make drum-programming more streamline! Were there default drum-maps available or only user-created ones? Another hidden gem that has long since been forgotten is the CAL scripts. Any stuff on that might be nice for users. Nice work!
Hi Mike - what is the advantage to seperating your MIDI track and your Soft Instrument track? I think I missed that detail - is it not possible to just use the Instrument track and program notes in that? Love your tutorials BTW! :)
Thanks for all the detail!!! How about going into how to add more MIDI patterns to your SI Drum Kit. I found out how to add them but could never then remove them. Seemed like there was a bug or they just didn't want you to do that easily.
Hi Sanford, if you go to C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Studio Instruments\SI-Drum Kit\Patterns you can delete the patterns from there. Also delete the file "patterns.lst", which will be re-made next time you use SI Drum Kit. Its a work around, but it works. Please make sure you back up any files beforehand of course!
Hey there Mike, At 4:30 in the video you mentioned that you dragged the “pieces of the drum kit that you were using” so they were closer together. My question is: does that change / modify the drum map for just the song that you are currently working on? Or does it actually change the drum map template? So if I pull up the drum map for a different tune, will the drums be arranged this way as well? Thx for the info.
Hello Mike. Thanks for all your videos about Cakewalk. I've learned a lot with you, and it is great. I've a request : how can I import the various drum patterns that we can ear in the SI-Drum-Kit ? On the left, you see : a tree list, a menu with various genres, a loop button and a play button. I wish to import these drums patterns on my midi tracks, but I don't know how to do this. It would be kind of you if you can show us how to achieve that. Thanks for your channel very very instructive. Calogero from Belgium.
Thanks for the Drum Maps downloads. Here is a curious observation about Drum Pro 64--the "in" and "out" key numbers are different--two octaves apart in the PRV. So, when the drum pad interface tells us that K1 is mapped to note C3, to "play" it in PRV you have to use C5! This is obviously not a glitch, because in the drum map that you created so painstakingly for us, this two-octave difference is indeed reflected in Drum Map Manager. So, this newbie asks, why? I have looked at a few other maps and thy have kept the ins and outs the same...
Hi - Great videos thank you - can you create a song/music/drums/guitar/synth/piano etc etc note by note, so I can create something "epic" created totally by myself featuring lots of different instruments? Do I have to download extra instruments/sounds, or are they all on the initial download? Thanks in advance!
Hi Mike, Still loving the videos! From a complete newbie, I can't thank you enough... In just 3 weeks I've gone from not even knowing what a DAW was to creating tracks with vocals, midi drums and my guitars (spent a small fortune on a little studio set up, interface, midi controller, mic, monitors and even bought a bass guitar!). Question for you though, if you don't mind, have you ever used something like the Alesis Samplepad compact? I've been doing drum loops on midi controller or finger pads via a Korg nanokey studio, but feel I want something more organic that I can hit with a stick. I think it allows you to output into the audio interface, the I guess I'd create an audio track in cakewalk and program the sound directly into the samplepad (rather than just using it for midi triggers and applying drum maps? (I'd prefer that I think). Any thoughts? Really appreciate your advice and tutorials 👍
Thanks Mike! Awesome Tut :) Could you Please do a tut on creating a drum map from scratch. Especially for old school keyboards that are NOT standard midi? For instance, the Yamaha PSS-480, which has drums on channel 15 and 16 instead of 10!
Not that it helps in Cakewalk but in Reaper one simply creates a text file that loads over the keys in the equivalent to the piano roll and away you go. It is even fairly simple to create the text file in Notepad or whatever. You will however need a different map for normal guitar mode or strummer mode but that is simple to create. Hope it helps, Tony. I could not find an easy way in Cakewalk.
Hi Mike, I'm new to using drum maps and have been following your video. I continue to have the keyboard display in the piano roll instead of the display you show. How do I change it?
I would love to see a video on how to map an imported midi drum file to one of these drum vst's. I always compose my stuff in Guitar Pro 7 and export in midi, but getting it imported correctly in Cakewalk seems challenging!
Hey Mike, I have a couple of questions. 1) If I'm using an external device (an old keyboard that has drum pads) to trigger the drums, and it is pre- GM standard, can I use a drum map to remap my triggers as they come into Cakewalk? and 2) Since "drum maps" is really just a midi mapper, can I use it to remap other midi things like keyboards? Thank you! I don't know how you keep up without cloning. Or maybe you are cloned - how would I know?
Mike, what do you think about my "best practice"? => I double-click the drum-synth, like this I create an instrument and a MIDI track, I go into the output selector of the MIDI track and choose "new drum map", in the appearing list I select e.g. your drum template (you can jump to it quickly by pressing the leading character or using the arrow up/down on your pc keyboard), afterwards the new drum map DM1 has been built and it seems to have the right instrument output port :-) Your tip to change the output port afterwards by using shift + ctrl is VERY useful, too!
Can you add this to your list of to-do: how to match a sample tempo to your desired tempo in cakewalk. For example if I want to use a drum sample loop that has a different tempo than the tempo I'm using in cakewalk.
Hi Mike First of all thanks for the easy to understand videos for Cakewalk as they have been brilliant. I am a beginner and have a Roland BK-7m sound module and have no idea how to use it with Cakewalk. I read about "Instrument Definitions" and downloaded the BK-7M definition from roland and imported it but thats as far as I got. Have you made a video on this subject ? PLease help
The real struggle was to make Cakewalk Blb play with Cakewalk 3.0 maps created back before 2000. I had to install 3.0 to win10 (which wouldn't run any means possible) find the standard drum map in folders and map each drum by hand to Addictive Drums. Some I still couldn't so mapped them by listening
I have a question: I programmed drums using Hydrogen, but wanted drums that sound better. I really like Cakewalk's SI-Drum Kit and was able to export the drum programs from Hydrogen as MIDI files and import them into Cakewalk. However... All of the drum instruments are mixed up. The hi-hats are where the kick drum is supposed to be; snare is where the ride cymbal is, etc... The beats are the same, it's just the instruments that are all screwed up. I tried going into the drum map in Preferences, but nothing changed 😕 Is there a way to do this easier? If not, Cakewalk should really work on making swapping drum instruments easier to do. Also, is there a way to do crash chokes and hi-hat swish/barks?
I watch all you videos, thank you. Here's where I'm stuck. The is a drum map with brush swirls "Yamaha RY7 Brush " but several sounds including brush swirls don't sound. What am I doing wrong?
What I’m trying to figure out is how to get those standard midi drum sounds once you get a map setup. It seems that no matter what you do, the SI drum kit only has the sound banks that it comes with. For instance you can map a clap to the midi controller but nothing you do can make it play. Am I right?
I want to create a drum map for my Roland td-17kvx e kit. Unfortunately it's not in the drop down list of drums in the Cakewalk drum map manager. I do have a Roland supplied midi note value listing, but I'm just not sure exactly how to properly enter the values and create the drum map. I don't want to use a drum vst, just the kit sounds from the td-17kvx. So I'm thinking I'll download Mike's SI drums drum map, then edit it and put in the td-17 midi note values instead. Does this sound reasonable? Thoughts or suggestions are most welcome. Thanks guys.
Thanks for the video's - they're a great help! I'm struggling to get the drum maps working. Having downloaded your drum map and moved it to the correct folder, I click on 'New' in the edit preferences on Cakewalk then go to the drum map Presets drop-down and it's completely blank. How do I make the drum maps appear?
Hi, I got the same problem. I am sure that my presets are in a correct folder (I am able to make a drum map file there using drum map manager, but as soon as I save it, file appear in the folder but the drop-down is blank again. Anyone got an idea? I played with access rights on filesystem as well, but can't get this fixed too :(
Wow, you saved me again, thank you so much! I got everything up and running with drum pro and your map. But i can't switch from the pianoroll to the other view you were showing @ 02:41 I did switch by coincidence once and haven't seen it ever since. Anybody got an hint for me? Thx!
For those of you who believe you have installed correctly the SI Drum Kit into the Drum Manager, but don't see it in the Presets drop-down list, restarting the Project won't make it appear. You have to restart the Cakewalk program itself. It then appeared for me.
Great vid Mike and as always we are all very much indebted to you. I dont suppose you know how to make the drum map without a template though. i.e right from scratch. Thanks :)
Hi, I don't find the Drum Map Manager on MIDI of the Preferences box. Also I set the advanced button on this box, but nothing appears. My version is 2022.02 (build 039, 64 bits). What can I do. Please I want the GM Drum Map install on the piano roll to see the part name of the drum set to just know what I going to hit. I have connect my Cassio WK-240 and I think that there is a corespondent between the keys of my keyboard and the GM Drum Map that I trying to install. Thank for your support... from Lima Peru.
thanks for another great video. Question: When I view the midi track in the events view the instrument names ( snare, Kick etc. ) are not showing. In Events the names show up as note names. They used to show as instrument name in previous Cakewalk, I would use this to change for example, the Kick1 drum to Kick2, or change the velocity on a search and replace. Is there something I have done wrong or is this feature changed? appreciate the help.
What a great video! Interestingly, I have ALL the drum maps except the one I NEED! The AD2..lol! When I opened the file I don't have AD2 drum map, is there a way I can get it? Thanks!
Hey Greg, thanks for watching. There is a link for it on this page: www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013364/Setting-up-a-Drum-Map-for-Addictive-Drums-2-in-SONAR
Could you make a tutorial on how to connect and setup all the menus to record an external midi drumset like a roland vdrum? Ive tried to do it myself but cakewalk has hundreds of menus and popups and settings that I really get very confused. In Cubase its not so complicated 🤔 Thanks!
As long i wanna use SI Drum Kit, all is ok. I can load it and play in Step Sequencer. But when i wanna try e.g Drum Map3 Alesis Tribal Stuff from the Drum Map Manager, nothing no souind coming out.
It´s mental how Mike covers everything about Cakewalk.
This is wonderful. I am so grateful for you posting this very detailed video. I was suffering making my kit trigger correctly and this is heaven. I wouldn't manage to solve it in 1000 years without your help. Thank you so much, really means a lot.
I've almost never seen such simples explanations. Every is clearly explained without make us feel stupid. Thank you.
Got there in the end. It was quite a struggle. Loaded up the drum map for MT Power Drums and got it working feeding individual drums to separate audio tracks. Very pleased.
Where was this months ago?... Thank you so much for this. Best explanation I've seen so far. With more than just steps but explanations on why we're doing things. Keep up the great work!
lol - well I'm glad it helped!
Thanks for yet another great video! Cheers from France!
I hope you're not affected by the fires in your country. All my wishes to your fellow men and women.
Thank you! Also thanks for asking. So far in my state we've had some reasonably large fires, but not like those near Sydney. For us personally, just some smoke sometimes. Fingers crossed for the rest of the season.
Huge thanks - I was missing the step about pointing the midi to the drum map. Works like a charm, now! As always, brilliantly and clearly explained. Mike - You're a legend. Cheers mate.
My pleasure
NICE explanation. I would have NEVER figured this out without your help! I'm limping along now and getting used to Cakewalk. It would be nice to have a video where it shows us how to create our own drum map versus downloading yours. BUT, This is getting me to where I need to be to start really working with the the SI and Drum Pro 64 drum kits and the step sequencer!! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you (again), Mike. I use this rarely enough that I need a refresher fairly often. Having this available has been really helpful.
Very clear instruction thanks
Really helpful video. Great to have a channel dedicated to my DAW of choice showing me how to do all those things I never got round to reading the instructions for (even though I've been using Sonar/Cakewalk for many years). This will be a real time saver.
Haha! Thank you Gavin, hopefully you'll find some other things useful when its not Cakewalk specific. Thanks for watching!
Yet another good, well explained video. Creating a drum map line by line can be boring even if you are learning. Been there, done that years ago. Thanks again Mike. Tony.
Very true! I'd always recommend a good Google first!
Altho' I'm still using Sonar X3, most of your tutorials apply! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Your tutorials are excellent! So glad to have "found" you!
Hey John, very happy to hear that. Many more to come!
These videos are so helpful thanks
So great! Thank you so much!! Best Software teacher out there!! I should have had you as my teacher at school 50 years ago i am shure there had been much more fun that ist was. 👋❤🌞🥇🏆
Thank you very much. This solved a long trauma 🙂
Thank You for another great tutorial !!
Up and running in just a few minutes.
Thx for making the complex (for me) easy.
Awesome! Glad to hear that :)
Really, really handy - it's a must see - and like - and share
Excellent instructions! Thank you
My pleasure!
never know drums can be set up like this! thank you Mike
thanx Mike, that's a big help
Thank you Mike!!! This video cleared up a lot of questions I had. So glad I discovered your videos.
Awesome content, very helpful. Just moved from paid Cubase to Cakewalk and it's so much easier.
Thaaaaaaaanks a lot sir, Exactly this is what I was looking for
Fantastic video! Thank you for all your vids!!!
My absolute pleasure Karl :)
Thanks Mike. I really enjoy your tutorials and., I must admit, I also tap my finger in the air with the snare on your opening theme. Also on the bell.😁 Hope you don't mind.
Please make a tutorial on plugging in Ample Bass to Cakewalk? I can't get the sound out of the bass guitar plugin. Thanks a million👍
Very helpful presentation. Thank you 👍
Thanks for watching Marek :)
Excellent video again. Thanks!!
Cheers mate, I did exactly what you said and I now have my drum map working. 😃
Awesome!!
Hi Mike. Useful info. A couple of notes about my experience with the Cakewalk version I downloaded a week or two ago:
1) It seems that the drum map view doesn't replace the piano roll view: it just adds it higher up in the window. So you may have to scroll to find it. This had me scratching my head for a while!
2) If I want to rearrange the order of the rows, it doesn't work if I click on the 'name' field of the row: I had to click on the 'note' field. (Looked a bit different in your version)?
3) A useful discovery: once the drum map is installed, the 'step sequencer' view picks up the drum names on the left hand side. Handy!
Keep up the good work... Cheers!
Very helpful video, thanks!
Oh yes thank you again. That sure saved time mapping all the drums.
I am a drummer and I use a digital drum kit to add drum tracks to songs in Cakewalk. I need a program that will enable me to tell the system that "when I hit this drum, play this sound". I thought, by the name, a drum map might do that, but it does not. Session Drummer doesn't do it because you can't change the inputs and my inputs don't match theirs. I'm hoping this exists and you can help me find it. Thanks. Your videos are extremely useful.
ever find a solution? I don't want to watch 20 minute tutorials anymore that never explain how to do this
@OvernightOats1 I'm wanting to use a drum map with my Roland td-17kvx, without using a vst drum kit. I'm assuming this is what you're trying to do with your e drum kit. Have you figured out how to do this?
Great info on the additional kits (and all SI instruments).
It also brings up a question.
If I change kits, will the Drum Mapping still be correct, for the different drum kits?
Thx again.
For the same plugin, usually yes :)
Hi Mike, Can you make a tutorial on the basic steps of mixing a song?
Thanks love your videos!
Hi Joseph, yes I have one like that coming up! Thanks for watching :)
Thanks very much for your great tutorials! I've never done drum maps, so this is on the learning/implementation list for today.
Great video! Why isn't there a way to just import drum map to the actual instrument channel itself. to me it's a cluttery workaround, i can select a bunch of general midi crap though. thanks again for your work!! (and also sorry if this is explained earlier)
Perfect! Thank you so much for this tutorial and the drum maps. Subscribed! :)
a little hint to open the roaming folder very quickly: Press the Windows-key + R, enter %appdata%, press enter or OK and there you are. This works even if you have not activated to show the hidden folders :-) ...and you can enter %appdata% in the folder or filename fields of the most file requester windows...
Thank you :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING
Dude I need to pick your brain. I can't find my vst or know how to play my edrums with this ....
Mikee, I followed the instruction perfectly, but the piano roll will not replace with DM1-SI Drum Kit? I am on 11 and I use both cakewalk and Sonar Platinum
Hi - great vids btw :-) How can I copy & paste whole bars of the drum maps?
Thanks again.I am a percussionist and trying to build up a percussion song. So rythm1 + break 1 + rythm2 + break2 etc. So i thought the way would be to program these in the step sequencer as clips and arranging them in the arranger. Is that the way? Do you have a RUclips video on that?
Is there a drum map for Addictive Drums 2? I have Jamstix 4 I use with it with AD2. Sure would be much easier to have a drum map instead of bouncing around to find drum pieces as I do now
Thanks Mike. Where do you select the drum map outout and what do you select it to?
Hello dear sir, I' m new in the ''world'' of cakewalk so i have a question about midi drums map. So for every time we want to write midi drums we have to add a drum map? And also for every else drum kit?
Thanks for your help and your time and i feel sorry for my not so good English. Thanks again
Great tutorial. Been using cakewalk for over 20 years and this is new to me! (even though drum-maps was available many editions ago) I think once set up, this should make drum-programming more streamline! Were there default drum-maps available or only user-created ones?
Another hidden gem that has long since been forgotten is the CAL scripts. Any stuff on that might be nice for users. Nice work!
Yes, I must do a video on CAL scripts! Thank you :)
Is there a way to add more drums to the default drums from Cakewalk? Such as more toms, more crash cymbals, china cymbal, etc?
Hi Mike - what is the advantage to seperating your MIDI track and your Soft Instrument track? I think I missed that detail - is it not possible to just use the Instrument track and program notes in that? Love your tutorials BTW! :)
You're the best. Took a long time but better late than never. Lol
Thank you.
Haha! No problem:)
Thanks for all the detail!!! How about going into how to add more MIDI patterns to your SI Drum Kit. I found out how to add them but could never then remove them. Seemed like there was a bug or they just didn't want you to do that easily.
Hi Sanford, if you go to C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Studio Instruments\SI-Drum Kit\Patterns you can delete the patterns from there. Also delete the file "patterns.lst", which will be re-made next time you use SI Drum Kit. Its a work around, but it works. Please make sure you back up any files beforehand of course!
Hey there Mike,
At 4:30 in the video you mentioned that you dragged the “pieces of the drum kit that you were using” so they were closer together.
My question is: does that change / modify the drum map for just the song that you are currently working on?
Or does it actually change the drum map template?
So if I pull up the drum map for a different tune, will the drums be arranged this way as well?
Thx for the info.
Can you add or remove individual drum hits from drum loops? AKA editing the pre-recorded drum loops? Thanks!
Hello Mike. Thanks for all your videos about Cakewalk. I've learned a lot with you, and it is great.
I've a request : how can I import the various drum patterns that we can ear in the SI-Drum-Kit ?
On the left, you see : a tree list, a menu with various genres, a loop button and a play button. I wish to import these drums patterns on my midi tracks, but I don't know how to do this.
It would be kind of you if you can show us how to achieve that.
Thanks for your channel very very instructive.
Calogero from Belgium.
Thanks for the Drum Maps downloads. Here is a curious observation about Drum Pro 64--the "in" and "out" key numbers are different--two octaves apart in the PRV. So, when the drum pad interface tells us that K1 is mapped to note C3, to "play" it in PRV you have to use C5! This is obviously not a glitch, because in the drum map that you created so painstakingly for us, this two-octave difference is indeed reflected in Drum Map Manager. So, this newbie asks, why? I have looked at a few other maps and thy have kept the ins and outs the same...
Hi - Great videos thank you - can you create a song/music/drums/guitar/synth/piano etc etc note by note, so I can create something "epic" created totally by myself featuring lots of different instruments? Do I have to download extra instruments/sounds, or are they all on the initial download? Thanks in advance!
How do we download the drums? Thanks man! Appreciate it!
Hi Mike,
Still loving the videos!
From a complete newbie, I can't thank you enough... In just 3 weeks I've gone from not even knowing what a DAW was to creating tracks with vocals, midi drums and my guitars (spent a small fortune on a little studio set up, interface, midi controller, mic, monitors and even bought a bass guitar!).
Question for you though, if you don't mind, have you ever used something like the Alesis Samplepad compact?
I've been doing drum loops on midi controller or finger pads via a Korg nanokey studio, but feel I want something more organic that I can hit with a stick.
I think it allows you to output into the audio interface, the I guess I'd create an audio track in cakewalk and program the sound directly into the samplepad (rather than just using it for midi triggers and applying drum maps? (I'd prefer that I think).
Any thoughts? Really appreciate your advice and tutorials 👍
Thanks Mike! Awesome Tut :) Could you Please do a tut on creating a drum map from scratch. Especially for old school keyboards that are NOT standard midi? For instance, the Yamaha PSS-480, which has drums on channel 15 and 16 instead of 10!
Another hit! Is it possible to create "key maps" for other instruments such as amplesound guitars?
At first I thought why not but then doing it as a drum map might not allow midi Note length to be adjusted.
Not that it helps in Cakewalk but in Reaper one simply creates a text file that loads over the keys in the equivalent to the piano roll and away you go. It is even fairly simple to create the text file in Notepad or whatever. You will however need a different map for normal guitar mode or strummer mode but that is simple to create. Hope it helps, Tony. I could not find an easy way in Cakewalk.
thank you man
Hi Mike, I'm new to using drum maps and have been following your video. I continue to have the keyboard display in the piano roll instead of the display you show. How do I change it?
I would love to see a video on how to map an imported midi drum file to one of these drum vst's. I always compose my stuff in Guitar Pro 7 and export in midi, but getting it imported correctly in Cakewalk seems challenging!
Did you ever figure this out? I have the same problem importing MIDI files I made on Hydrogen to Cakewalk.
Thanks for the helpfull video's. When i open the drum map manager it shows thousands of drum kitts, but not the SI kitt...
Hey Mike, I have a couple of questions. 1) If I'm using an external device (an old keyboard that has drum pads) to trigger the drums, and it is pre- GM standard, can I use a drum map to remap my triggers as they come into Cakewalk? and 2) Since "drum maps" is really just a midi mapper, can I use it to remap other midi things like keyboards? Thank you! I don't know how you keep up without cloning. Or maybe you are cloned - how would I know?
Thanks for, how to change all outputs at once.
Thank you so much!!!
Mike, what do you think about my "best practice"? => I double-click the drum-synth, like this I create an instrument and a MIDI track, I go into the output selector of the MIDI track and choose "new drum map", in the appearing list I select e.g. your drum template (you can jump to it quickly by pressing the leading character or using the arrow up/down on your pc keyboard), afterwards the new drum map DM1 has been built and it seems to have the right instrument output port :-) Your tip to change the output port afterwards by using shift + ctrl is VERY useful, too!
Genius! Thanks for sharing this Michael :)
Thanks for this! Wonder if Cakewalk would consider giving us a way to put text on the piano roll view, to identify key switches in sampled sounds?
Great idea!
Can you add this to your list of to-do: how to match a sample tempo to your desired tempo in cakewalk.
For example if I want to use a drum sample loop that has a different tempo than the tempo I'm using in cakewalk.
Good idea, thank you :)
Great tutorial! Do you have any thoughts or a tutorial on setting the velocity on bass guitar notes? i.e. 2 and 4 or 1 and 3 etc..
is there a way to use the preset drum loops to record with to make simple backing tracks? very new to computer recording old guy
Thank you. :)
can you use separate maps for separate drum programs?
Hi Mike First of all thanks for the easy to understand videos for Cakewalk as they have been brilliant. I am a beginner and have a Roland BK-7m sound module and have no idea how to use it with Cakewalk. I read about "Instrument Definitions" and downloaded the BK-7M definition from roland and imported it but thats as far as I got. Have you made a video on this subject ? PLease help
Drum lenght only matters if you will use it on a GM general midi. Overlapping midi notes adds on polyphony.
The real struggle was to make Cakewalk Blb play with Cakewalk 3.0 maps created back before 2000. I had to install 3.0 to win10 (which wouldn't run any means possible) find the standard drum map in folders and map each drum by hand to Addictive Drums. Some I still couldn't so mapped them by listening
You deserve a gold star for that for sure!
@@CreativeSauce Thanks :) It's this one. I think it's worth the pain open.spotify.com/track/1eeyuoRzQZvOKcteGJqHes
I have a question: I programmed drums using Hydrogen, but wanted drums that sound better. I really like Cakewalk's SI-Drum Kit and was able to export the drum programs from Hydrogen as MIDI files and import them into Cakewalk.
However...
All of the drum instruments are mixed up. The hi-hats are where the kick drum is supposed to be; snare is where the ride cymbal is, etc... The beats are the same, it's just the instruments that are all screwed up. I tried going into the drum map in Preferences, but nothing changed 😕
Is there a way to do this easier? If not, Cakewalk should really work on making swapping drum instruments easier to do.
Also, is there a way to do crash chokes and hi-hat swish/barks?
Hi, have you created Drum Maps for EZDrummer 2, for Cakewalk?
YES...........EZDrummer was Easy compared to drum maps
I watch all you videos, thank you. Here's where I'm stuck. The is a drum map with brush swirls "Yamaha RY7 Brush " but several sounds including brush swirls don't sound. What am I doing wrong?
What I’m trying to figure out is how to get those standard midi drum sounds once you get a map setup. It seems that no matter what you do, the SI drum kit only has the sound banks that it comes with. For instance you can map a clap to the midi controller but nothing you do can make it play.
Am I right?
I want to create a drum map for my Roland td-17kvx e kit. Unfortunately it's not in the drop down list of drums in the Cakewalk drum map manager. I do have a Roland supplied midi note value listing, but I'm just not sure exactly how to properly enter the values and create the drum map. I don't want to use a drum vst, just the kit sounds from the td-17kvx. So I'm thinking I'll download Mike's SI drums drum map, then edit it and put in the td-17 midi note values instead. Does this sound reasonable? Thoughts or suggestions are most welcome. Thanks guys.
Thanks for the video's - they're a great help! I'm struggling to get the drum maps working. Having downloaded your drum map and moved it to the correct folder, I click on 'New' in the edit preferences on Cakewalk then go to the drum map Presets drop-down and it's completely blank. How do I make the drum maps appear?
Hi, I got the same problem. I am sure that my presets are in a correct folder (I am able to make a drum map file there using drum map manager, but as soon as I save it, file appear in the folder but the drop-down is blank again. Anyone got an idea? I played with access rights on filesystem as well, but can't get this fixed too :(
Have you guys figured it out? I’m having the same issue and it’s quite frustrating.
@@isaiah1660 Hey, I didn't unzip mine and that was a proble. But TBH I also reinstalled cakewalk cause I had a system crash.
Hi Mike, I'm having a problem finding the Drum Map Manager even after selecting Advanced. Is there a solution to this? Thanks
can We use same Drums Map from any plugins Im using From Labs
Wow, you saved me again, thank you so much! I got everything up and running with drum pro and your map. But i can't switch from the pianoroll to the other view you were showing @ 02:41 I did switch by coincidence once and haven't seen it ever since. Anybody got an hint for me? Thx!
Hello im using GGD drums do i still need to download the the drum map?
Sorry another question: do you have the drum maps for Kontakt kits or a location I can get them from .? thank you.
For those of you who believe you have installed correctly the SI Drum Kit into the Drum Manager, but don't see it in the Presets drop-down list, restarting the Project won't make it appear. You have to restart the Cakewalk program itself. It then appeared for me.
Great vid Mike and as always we are all very much indebted to you. I dont suppose you know how to make the drum map without a template though. i.e right from scratch. Thanks :)
Thank you - I do as it happens (as I made one of the ones in the download), I'll cover it in a future video. Thanks for watching :)
@@CreativeSauce Thanks Mike :)
Hi, I don't find the Drum Map Manager on MIDI of the Preferences box. Also I set the advanced button on this box, but nothing appears. My version is 2022.02 (build 039, 64 bits). What can I do. Please I want the GM Drum Map install on the piano roll to see the part name of the drum set to just know what I going to hit. I have connect my Cassio WK-240 and I think that there is a corespondent between the keys of my keyboard and the GM Drum Map that I trying to install. Thank for your support... from Lima Peru.
duration can tighten up a boomy floor tom or kick
thanks for another great video. Question: When I view the midi track in the events view the instrument names ( snare, Kick etc. ) are not showing. In Events the names show up as note names. They used to show as instrument name in previous Cakewalk, I would use this to change for example, the Kick1 drum to Kick2, or change the velocity on a search and replace. Is there something I have done wrong or is this feature changed? appreciate the help.
What a great video! Interestingly, I have ALL the drum maps except the one I NEED! The AD2..lol! When I opened the file I don't have AD2 drum map, is there a way I can get it? Thanks!
Hey Greg, thanks for watching. There is a link for it on this page: www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013364/Setting-up-a-Drum-Map-for-Addictive-Drums-2-in-SONAR
Thanks friend!
Could you make a tutorial on how to connect and setup all the menus to record an external midi drumset like a roland vdrum? Ive tried to do it myself but cakewalk has hundreds of menus and popups and settings that I really get very confused. In Cubase its not so complicated 🤔 Thanks!
How do you get the cakewalk drums to be played by electric drums directly?
Connect the drums with a USB cable . Select your kit as the midi controller.
great content but may i know how to load the drum map
When I drag the SI drum kit over the pop up to check the boxes does not appear. I cannot find the settings to change that. Help?
I've fallen at the first hurdle 🤦🏻♂️. When I drag and drop SI drums I don't get a pop up box and I only get one track? Help!
How do you go about making your own drum map?
As long i wanna use SI Drum Kit, all is ok. I can load it and play in Step Sequencer. But when i wanna try e.g Drum Map3 Alesis Tribal Stuff from the Drum Map Manager, nothing no souind coming out.