Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[alisaamor]

Dear Jamstix staff and users,
I would like to take patterns from ez drummer latin percussion and import it into jamstix to make it more interesting. I am having trouble because it won't import the percussion because it is not within the general midi range it's up at around c6. Jamstix doesn't seem to have congas and bongos anyway. I've tried remapping the conga sounds to general midi and the results are disapointing since ez drummer has some subtle sounds that aren't available in gm. Is there anyway to do this? Does Jamstix have any latin percussion sounds available? Thank you for your time.--alisaamor

[Ralph [RZ]]

JS2 does not currently support the EZX Percussion mapping.

In early 2008 we will release a hand percussion add-on for Jamstix2 (sounds, styles and players) that should fit your needs and we will also try to offer a MIDI import mapping for EZX Percussion with that add-on.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[Susan G]

Hi-

The whole drum mapping issue is a big one for me as well. Just dreaming here, but I wish there could be some sort of "universal" drum librarian or protocol so you could just say "This sound here = That sound there" and be done with it! As it is, it's a big PITN to try to audition all the possibilites out there with all the hard and soft drum kits, expansion packs, yadda-yadda. I've posted about this on the SONAR forum as well. I still think there's gotta be a better way than having every app using its own system/file format for drum maps.

There are still only 128 MIDI notes, after all.

-Susan

[Ralph [RZ]]

There are only 128 MIDI notes but every drum module uses its own types of sound and thus its own layout. The GM specs are way to simple to satisfy the needs of advanced modules like BFD, DFHS, AD and Jamstix.

Personally, I don't have much trouble with it. I look at the keys.pdf that comes with most libraries and just match the MIDI keys in JS2 to them and save as a kit. Takes less than 5 minutes per module.

Unless I misunderstood you...
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[Susan G]

Right, but I have *several* Motif drum kits, EZDrummer Core and Nashville, Latin Percussion, Cocktail Kits, etc. JS2 has a mapping for EZDrummer Core + JS2 Percussion, but we have to make our own for the rest. I create a Drum Map in SONAR, fine, but it doesn't do me any good in JS2. I know I'll also have to start all over again any time I buy an expansion pack or use another drum module from another publisher.

SONAR's Drum Maps, for example, are apparently proprietary and not translatable to any other format. There's not all that much information in a drum map, at least not so much that I shouldn't be able to say this=that. But as long as all publishers go with proprietary formats, we won't be able to do anything as simple as that.

Thanks-

-Susan