Setting Up A Percussion Track; Setting Up A Percussion Staff Or Line - CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO User Manual

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instrument; mapping lets you display any instrument in any position on
the staff, regardless of the underlying MIDI note value). You can
saveinstrument; mapping lets you display any instrument in any
position on the staff, regardless of the underlying MIDI note value). You
can save your settings as a preset, and use them again on other tracks
and in other projects. Pro Audio supplies a standard preset based on the
General MIDI percussion standard and popularly accepted percussion
staff positions and noteheads.

Setting Up a Percussion Track

Before you use the percussion capabilities of the Staff view, your
percussion track should be set up correctly. This will allow you to hear
the proper sounds when placing notes and during playback, and will
allow you to see the correct percussion instrument names rather than
generic note names in the Piano Roll view, Event List view, and
Percussion Notation dialog box.
To Set Up a Percussion Track...
1. Right-click on the track in the Track pane and choose Track
Properties to open the Track Properties dialog box.
2. Assign the port and channel for your percussion instrument. For
example, if the port is assigned to a sound card that supports
General MIDI, use channel 10.
3. Click Instruments to open the Assign Instruments dialog box.
4. Make sure that the port/channel combination used by your track
is assigned to a percussion instrument definition. For example,
channel 10 of a General MIDI port should be assigned to the
General MIDI Drums instrument definition.
5. Click OK in both dialog boxes.
Pro Audio shows the new track port and channel in the Track view,
and will use the proper percussion instrument names in the Piano Roll
view, Event List view, and Percussion Notation dialog box.
For more information about instrument definitions, see Chapter 10,
Using Instrument Definitions .

Setting Up a Percussion Staff or Line

The Þrst time you display a percussion track in the Staff view, Pro Audio
picks a default percussion clef for the track. Tracks with only one note
value are assigned the Percussion Line clef. Tracks with multiple note
values are assigned the Percussion Staff clef.