Drumline Sounds for Dorico 4

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You don’t need to use the Keyswitch field in the percussion map. That is intended for use when you need to additionally play another note along with the specified note in the percussion map to trigger an extra sound, e.g. note 60 produces a simple snare hit, but if you also hold down note 48, note 60 will produce a snare hit with a different kind of stick.

The basic steps for setting up custom percussion mappings are outlined here:

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…

I think it should be possible to set up the MDL sounds in Dorico without too much trouble following these principles. Let us know if you run into further problems.