I like your ideas. It’s refreshing to read your willingness to expand eDRUMin from the original vision to something new.Rob wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:01 amI never intended Note Banks to really work that way. The idea of Note Banks was to be able to change note assignments for a pad in a hands-free manner without using the control application.
One of the issues with expanding the Note Banks functionality is that that banks are very rigid. If you move pads around, add new pads or a future device with a different number of inputs, then you Note Banks need a lot of maintenance.
I want to move instead to the concept of drum maps, where inputs are assigned a kit piece id, and they use that ID to pull their note assignments from a drum map.
Here's are the details in point form
-The device only has one drum map (economical), but the Control Application can store store as many maps as you wish.
-Switching maps should take no more than a couple of clicks.
-Maps define 20 kit pieces
-All note assignments for the kit piece are editable.
-Note assignments for a kit piece can be imported from a note bank (so you aren't stating from scratch)
-Maps can be duplicated, deleted, given names etc.
-Switching maps in the control application can switch maps for all connected devices.
-Kit pieces can be dragged and dropped so the note assignments from one piece can be quickly moved to another
Your thoughts?
My suggestions:
I concur with a graphic that included three rack toms and two floor toms. For cymbals at the minimum: HH, Crash 1, Crash 2, Crash 3, Splash, and China would cover most everything. If I counted correctly that is still less than 20 kit pieces.
Any ability to include in the drum map whether the positional sensing is Note or CC? Not the most important thing, but I was wondering.