Percussion Kit not allowing individual expression maps per instrument

Dorico
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I have 10 Taikos loaded into a percussion kit.
I need individual expression maps on each individual Taiko, but when I try to load them, it switches the expression maps on all of the Taikos. Why are they locked in sync and how do I unlock them?

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Unpitched instruments generally use Percussion Maps, not Expression Maps.

I’m not sure if it is possible to have a different Percussion Map for individual instruments within a Percussion Kit, but maybe someone else can confirm? I’m only assuming it would have something to do with Independent Voice Playback, which isn’t possible in Percussion Kits…

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I use both expression and percussion maps on percussion. For certain playback techniques I need to send PC messages. For most percussion that uses different beaters/mallets/sticks for instance I send out PC messages to accomplish the switching (via the expression map).

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It sounds as if perhaps you have all of your taiko instruments assigned to the same endpoint (i.e. a single channel and port on a single plug-in), in which case they must all have the same expression map and percussion map, as those settings are associated with the endpoint, not the instrument.