When re-loading your kit, this change will be recalled. In the sense of you were to make a new assignment in the edit/mix page, then save your kit. On the other hand, MIDI learn in the edit/mix tab is not global, and the changes you make save per kit. This is good for making maps for MIDI controllers/ E-Kit’s as mapping isn’t tied to a kit, and users can set a default mapping preset, to make for ease of use when switching kits and using a MIDI device. Thus, these changes do not save per kit, for saved presets, you will have to reload them each time you load a new kit. The MIDI learn in the “MAP” tab is global, meaning that notes are mapped before they hit SSD5. Please note SSD5.5 offers MIDI learn in two different locations, the mapping section, which can be accessed by first clicking on the “Map” Tab, on the left side of SSD 5, and the articulation switching which can be accessed in the edit and mix tabs. I know, I can assign every single sample to another note (MIDI Learn), but to do all of this by hand is, as mentioned, a nightmare.Īlso, what’s the difference between “User (not loaded)” and “Reserved (not loaded)”, and what happens when I put, say, a kick drum on a “Bell left (not loaded)”? Will the left bell WHEN LOADED then stack up with the kick drum?Īs said, I want to build a huge drum kit with all the samples I have in mind, but right now mapping issues stand in the way. I want to build a huge drum set with 2 different kick drums, 2 different hi-hats etc., and not run 2 instances of SSD5.5 in one project, just to be able to have this. It’s very inconvenient to have a second hi-hat placed 3 octaves above the first one. Then I can’t figure out how to “unstack” samples… well, in all honesty: why do they get stacked by default in the first place? Would be great if they’d get somewhat logically mapped to their own MIDI notes (like a second kick drum close to the 1st one etc.). I’d love to keep the mapping for every kit loaded, so that I can switch between drum sets, but keep the samples where they were. I can’t seem to find the “Input Converter” in SSD5.5. What leaves me in mixed emotions is the content of it. Remarkable: I never got a quicker support reply. When it comes to point 2 I had a conversation with the support. The MIDI mapping, especially the “stacking issue”, is a pain in the ass.Steven Slate Drums, especially the new SDD5.5, simply sound fucking great, out of the box.

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