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Note. The full Garritan documentation refers to Middle C MIDI note #60 as C3 (instead of the usual C4). This conflicts
with Finales system, which displays pitch names using the Middle C = C4 standard. In this tutorial, I will stick with Finales Middle C = C4 system to avoid confusion (see MIDI Note to Pitch Table ), but this means the pitch names I use here wont correspond to the pitch names given in the Garritan documentation.
However, the bass drum included in Basic Orch Percussion does a pretty good job of handling long and short notes without using keyswitches. You may find its more practical than Bass Drum KS. There is also an instrument called Snares and another called Cymbals, but these merely duplicate the snares and cymbals found in Basic Orch Percussion.
For a list of note assignments for the drum kits and other unpitched percussion instruments in JABB, consult "Appendix B: Drum Maps" in your JABB documentation.
percussion staves should already be configured to use the appropriate percussion map. For instance, if you selected Basic Orch Percussion in the Setup Wizard, that percussion MIDImap will be selected automatically in the ScoreManager. See To setup playback for a percussion staff for more details.
To disable sampled rolls, select "Bass Drum Rolls" and uncheck "Use this Technique." Then repeat the process for "Snare Drum Rolls," "Side Drum Rolls," "Cymbals Rolls 1," and "Cymbals Rolls 2."
probably prefer to use the (non-GM) Classic Jazz Drum Kit or Fusion Drum Kit, which include many samples that are not available in the General MIDI kits. In most jazz scores, the drum kit part is not written out in full. Instead, the part usually contains slash marks (indicating that the drummer should play time), with important ensemble figures cued above the staff. One frequently asked question is how to combine this slashes-with-cues drum notation with invisible notes used only for playback purposes, so that the drum part appears correctly in the score and also plays back correctly. While one popular method is to include a separate playback-only drum staff in your score, and hide it in Page View so that it is only visible in Scroll View, it is also possible to combine slash notation and cues above the staff with playback notes in the same part. First, enter the playback notes. You can enter these notes manually, or (if you are using one of the GM Drum Kits) using the Drum Groove plug-in to automatically generate a drum part. You can use Layers 1, 2, and 3 for the playback notes - we will use Layer 4 for the cues.
If you use the Drum Groove plug-in, be sure to check the ScoreManager afterwards to ensure that it has not modified the Channel assignment for your Drum Kit staff. The Drum Groove plug-in also creates a hidden expression - "HP off" - that disables Human Playback. You will normally want to delete this expression. Instead of turning Human Playback off completely, it's better to tell Human Playback to incorporate all User MIDI Data by choosing the appropriate settings in the MIDI Data pane of the Human Playback Preferences dialog box.
Another possible option when using the Drum Groove plug-in is to invoke the Apply Human Playback plug-in on every staff in the score except the drum staff. Once all of the playback notes have been entered, select the entire Drum Set staff with the Selection tool. Then choose Plug-ins > Note, Rest and Beam Editing > Notes and Rests (Hide). Select the Staff tool, then from the Staff menu choose Define Staff Styles.
In the Staff Styles dialog box, click New. We are going to create a new staff style that displays slashes in the drum staff but also shows notes in other layers, such as cue notes. Give the new staff style a name. Let's call it "01a. Slash Notation: show notes" Click the Select button to the right of Alternate Notation.
Click OK twice to save your new Staff Style. Apply this newly created Staff Style to every measure in your drum part where you want slashes to appear. Go to Document Options - Layers and choose Layer 4 from the pull-down menu. We are going to configure Layer 4 for cue notes. Choose the following options for Layer 4:
These layer settings apply to the entire score. If your score contains any non-cue notes in Layer 4, once you choose this setting, they will no longer play back.
Switch to Layer 4 and enter the cue notes in the Drum Set staff. Typically, these cue notes appear as regular noteheads on a single line or space above the staff, and match the rhythms of important ensemble figures. Here is an example of sample drum part with cues in Layer 4:
If you have selected a GM drum kit, a good note to use for entering these cue notes is the D below middle C. If you have selected a non-GM drum kit, a good note to use is the C below middle C. Remember that it doesn't matter what the playback note is for the cue notes, since they will not sound when you play back your file. If you would prefer that the cue notes appear on the first space above the staff instead of the top staff line, you can adjust the Staff Position of the pitch you are using for your cue notes in the Percussion Map Designer dialog box.
We recommend that you record the brush stirs in their own separate layer. For more information on this feature, consult the JABB Brush Stirs Tutoria l available on the Northern Sounds Forum.
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