Map Drum Notes To Different Outputs - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

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The blank drum track appears in the Drum Grid pane of the Piano Roll view.
2.
In the Piano Roll view, click on the down arrow to the right of the Pattern Brush tool
select Kick+Snare Patterns (R-T)-Stacy 7.
3.
Click the down arrow again and select Use Pattern Polyphony. This option tells SONAR to use
the original pitch values when "painting" notes in the Drum Grid pane.
4.
Click on the Pattern Brush to select it.
5.
Starting at the beginning of your track, click and drag the Pattern Brush tool for a few measures in
the Drum Grid pane.
A series of notes, at different pitch values appears in the Drum Grid pane. If you don't see any
notes, scroll down in the Drum Grid to see the notes.
6.
Click the Pattern Brush down arrow again and select Cymbal Patterns (C-F)-Fill 4.
7.
Repeat step 5.
8.
Listen to your drum track. Make a mental note of the drum sounds your hear, because they are
about to change.
Now it is time to mix things up a bit. Lets send some of your drum sounds to a different output.

Map Drum Notes to Different Outputs

First, we need to create an output to use, so let's open Cakewalk TTS-1 and use that soft synth for this
part of the tutorial.
To Open Cakewalk TTS-1
1.
Select View-Synth Rack from the menu.
2.
Click the Insert Synth button
TTS-1 from the menu that appears.
The Insert Soft Synth Options dialog appears.
3.
Make sure that the MIDI Source option in the Create These Tracks section is unchecked.
4.
In the Create These Tracks section, check the First Synth Audio Output option. This option creates
a single synth output track.
5.
In the Open These Windows section, check the Synth Property Page option. This option opens
Cakewalk TTS-1 when we close the Insert Soft Synth Options dialog.
6.
Click OK.
7.
An synth output track for the Cakewalk TTS-1 appears in the Track view and the Cakewalk TTS-1
appears. If you don't see the track, scroll down in the Track pane to find it.
Now, we can map notes to different outputs.
To Map a Note to a New Output
1.
Select your drum track and open the Piano Roll view by selecting View-Piano Roll from the
menu.
2.
Right-click in the Note Map pane (the list of drum names on the far left of the Piano Roll view) and
select Drum Map Manager from the right-click menu.
The Drum Map Manager appears.
3.
In the Drum Map Manager, change the Out Port for the In Note 46 (Bb3) to Cakewalk TTS-1.
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in the Synth Rack toolbar and select Soft Synths-Cakewalk
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