Keyboard splits...MIDI mapping?
2003-03-13 by Jerry
Bear with me here, this is where my absence form playing keys is going to show. I want to compose a piece using several voices. play it into page R and at some point mix it down onto tape with more voices and ornamentation. To do this, I need to create a System File with the required voices & settings. Right? I've got a system file containing KitLive11 and Piano Rock11 with Choirmale13. So far, I've managed to get a pattern in Page R. Now I want to improvise to see what I can come up with while this rhythm is playing. When I play the piano part, the sequencer is also triggering the drum sounds. I ONLY want the kick drum and a Mid Tom from the sequencer while I play the piano part over the rhythm live. My question is...HOW do I map the 2 drum voices to, say, the lowest 2 keys on the CMI leaving the remainder of the keyboard available for the piano voice? Do I go into SC and map the keyboard there? I tried and I still get both sounding together OR do I do this all with MIDI channel mapping? Aside from this, after I get a piano groove going, I may want to add ChoirFem to the project for ornamentation. ChoirMale I'd like to use as a bass line in certain sections. I'm just unsure how to go about all of this. My experiments have led to frustration. Or, dare ask, am I asking too much of the CMI? I don't think so after hearing some of the things I've heard done with it. Or am I going about this all wrong to start with? Any advice greatly appreciated! Thanks!! Jerry