Hi, I have developed a simple drum map editor for Cubase.
It is available for MacOS and Windows.
Features:
And sample drum maps are available for download.
All sound sources are set to play the same articulations on the same notes.
Hi and welcome to the forum,
What is the advantage comparison to Cubase’s editor?
The editing functions themselves are not that different.
The recommended use is to support conversion of csv files so you can edit them in your favorite csv editor or spreadsheet software.
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Thanks for building the tool
For what it’s worth there isn’t any need to build Drum Maps for BFD. It seems to be the only non-Steinberg VSTi that supports the Create Drummap from Instrument feature.
Thanks for letting me know. However, it appears that my account is not authorized to post links yet. I will try later.
I didn’t know BFD had such a useful feature. I hope other Instruments will support it too!
It’s a capability Steinberg put in the VST spec, but hardly anyone implements it. Wish more did.
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I see, I will read the other posts. Thanks a lot.
This looks useful, certainly the csv part. Thanks. I’ll have to try it.
Wow. Didn’t even know there was that possibility for 3rd party VSTs. Now I’m annoyed they aren’t doing it.
The sample drum map had some problems, so I replaced it with a new one.
i’m excited to find this software & i’m going to give it a rip tomorrow.
i don’t think people or Steinberg themselves know how insanely difficult it is create a drum map for a hardware device. the text formatting of the .drm files is silly business & the built-in editor is antiquated - look at it, they haven’t touched it since 1983!
thank you - steinberg should take note of this.
I was able to make this Yamaha RX7 drum map pretty quickly after OCR"ing the manual. The only problem I’m having with the editor is it doesn’t allow me to set the Midi Channel to ANY - the default midi channel 10 is one of the most annoying things about the default gm map & steinberg expects you change this one by one for over 100 sounds.
If steinberg is going to continue to develop the drum editor then they should fix the drum map editor to support CSV at a bare min. Doing this for such large drum maps is tedious even with good tools.
This post should be pinned. Thank you Marakami_Jun !
YamahaRx7.zip (3.2 KB)
Thank you for your feedback! I’m glad to hear that the drum map editor has been helpful to you.
Great job Murakami_Jun!
I’ve set up a couple of spreadsheets that help to quickly convert BFD3 key map exports to a csv file compatible with your program. Works great! Thanks!
Paul
Man, this looks sweet. However, it is not pulling in csv files from BFD 3.5
Gives an error and nothing. Was hoping this worked as for some reason my “create drum map from instrument” seems to be broken for everything but Groove Agent.
