Has anyone been working with other percussion kits and found any tips for useful mappings for those?
I’m thinking of vst libraries that I have for Latin, African and Symphonic percussion, for example.
Up until now, I’ve used the painful process of using the midi keyboard and some grid editor tweaking, and I intend to monkey around with some pad mappings with my new Maschine Mikro that arrives… TOMORROW.
Ahh, the midi keyboard method must have been so annoying…
Actually a few days ago, I was learning about African percussion instruments (because I find it fascinating), and this is one of the stuff I came up with: https://voca.ro/9LQVswCjM57 . My tips would be to 1. don’t treat it like a drumkit. Record as many channels as many instruments there are… or more accurately: according to the number of people who would play instruments in “real life”. 2. Again, because it’s not a kit, there are a lot of sound variations played with only one instrument. Sometimes there are so many possibilities with only one piece of percussion that you could easily consider it as a solo instrument. For mapping, I used the basics from the QFG layout: I arranged the pads based on how low/high a sound is, and put the special notes to the sides. It worked pretty well.