Change midi note of 1-line percussion

[dspreadbury]

There’s no magic involved in percussion playback, but it can be tricky to get things lined up. I wrote a fairly detailed overview of how percussion mapping works in Dorico a while back; perhaps it will help elucidate how things fit together:

How does mapping work?

Anders is correct that this is perhaps the most complex confluence of concepts in the whole program, and indeed in music notation in general. Conceptually I do believe it’s simple enough, but fitting the pieces together isn’t necessarily so simple. An unpitched percussion instrument produces a set of unpitched sounds: a note written on its own with no special notehead or articulation can be said to produce the “natural” sound of that instrument, but you can also define other sounds by specifyin…