Middle C and GM midi drum map
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:05 am
Proud new owner of MTS here - after doing several days homework I chose this over all other iOS DAWs because of the ability to have any mixture of time signatures in a project. Much appreciated.
But today I lost an hour trying to get midi notes to play MTS's internal drum kit. Turns out that if you set Middle C to be C4 (as dictated by formal music theory) then all the drum kit note assignments are off by one octave; i.e. the internal drum kit wanted closed HH on F#2 when the GM Midi Drum Map standard is F#1. That's why I wasn't getting any sound.
So the internal drum kit doesn't actually conform to the GM drum map standard unless you set Middle C to be C3 (preferences), but this doesn't conform with music theory. IMO this really should be fixed so that both standards are met.
But today I lost an hour trying to get midi notes to play MTS's internal drum kit. Turns out that if you set Middle C to be C4 (as dictated by formal music theory) then all the drum kit note assignments are off by one octave; i.e. the internal drum kit wanted closed HH on F#2 when the GM Midi Drum Map standard is F#1. That's why I wasn't getting any sound.
So the internal drum kit doesn't actually conform to the GM drum map standard unless you set Middle C to be C3 (preferences), but this doesn't conform with music theory. IMO this really should be fixed so that both standards are met.