Percussion Mapping/playback for beginners in Dorico 5?

[dspreadbury]

Here’s an explanation of how percussion mapping works in Dorico – perhaps you might find it a useful starting point?

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…