Midi Keyboard Drums with Home Studio

[Lethargic]

I use a MIDI keyboard to play drums and record on Cakewalk Home Studio. Worked great for a year but now I have something I want to use double bass on. It's extremely difficult to play double bass with one finger. Is there a way to assign the bass drum to two keys on the keyboard instead of one?

The way it is now is that the bass drum is the first key, a snare is the secona and another snare is on the third. What I want to do is get rid of the first snare and have the bass drum on both of those keys. So it's bass, bass, snare instead of bass, snare, snare. Is there a way to change this? I've been trying for a while but haven't figured out a way to do it.

 

[James Argo]

Welcome to the board, Lethargic
Sure there is a way. I don't know much about it in Home Studio, but in SONAR, you can select the "Drum Map" as your out put port.

Can you explain how can I do that, Jaymz ?

Sure...

Click on the MIDI out of the track, and select Drum Map Manager...

 

[James Argo]

...Then Drum Map Manager will open
Click new (red arrow), and watch for the "snare" note (ex. No 38) and replace it with "bass" (ex. No 36)...

 

[James Argo]

Now, you have
Input: 38 (D3) Output 36 (C3) for the "D" key, and
Input: 36 (C3) Output 36 (C3) for the "C" key.

Close the drum map manager (save the configuration first if necessary)...

 

[James Argo]

ps. You may change the name of the note manualy (shown by green arrow above )...

and finally, in the MIDI track, re-select the output port, and select your new made Drum Map port (in my example, 4: DM - )...

Have a try Chees...
it's also recorded that way if you arm the track. The notes will be entered to D3 (previous snare), but will sound like C3(kick/bass drums)...

 

[BluesMeister]

Another great tutorial Excellency Jaymz, however a Double Bass is an acoustic instrument often played in Jazz combos.

You certainly wouldn't want to play one of those with one finger.

Twin bass drums - ah well, that's entirely different. And that's what makes your explanation so good.

Most bass drums are played with the foot. Well, if Jerry Lee Lewis could bang his foot on the keyboard, you shouldn't have any bother at all, Lethargic!

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BluesMeister