Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[skogzort]

Hello,
I’m trying to map a custom Jamstix kit to an external drum library. I can see where you can assign a note (like C3) to a kit piece, but I don’t see where you assign the midi number (#60) and It looks like it does not work without both.

for example my external drum library wants to play the kick on C3 #60 – but the only thing I can assign the kick in Jamstix to is “C3” – I can’t see where I can also tell it #60
Thank You

[Joe_S]

C3 is midi note 60 assuming the software counts notes starting from midi note 0 = C-1.

If the software counts notes starting 0=C0 then midi note 60 would map to C4.

In midi, notes are represented by numbers only, not letters(note) and numbers(octave). The software maps the number to note+octave and there is no official standard to determine what the starting octave is ( -1 or 0 ). The more recent de-facto standard is -1 but some software and hardware, especially older ones, uses 0 as the starting octave.

So you have to figure out the starting octave when going between programs and compensate. My pet peeve has always been software not showing both the midi note number and the note+octave value together in a pick list. If all software did this, it would make things a lot easier. In certain cases you'd want to see note+octave, at other times midi note number is needed. Showing both in the picklist would satisfy both.

[skogzort]

Thank You for your response –

My drum module has a manual that tells me:
C3 = 60
How do I find out what C3 = in Jamstix?

Is there a midi implementation list somewhere – I could not find one in the manual.

[Joe_S]

I don't remember and I'm not at my daw at the moment. Assuming Jamstix uses the defacto standard:



based on that table, midi note #60 is C4 not C3. The midi note number for C3 is 48.

Try them and see which works.