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Create a Drum Track
You can use any blank MIDI track for your drums. If you don’t have a MIDI track,
create using the Insert-MIDI Track command.
To Assign a MIDI Track to a Drum Map
1. Display the Track view if it is minimized.
2. In the track you want to assign to a drum map, click the Output dropdown and
select DM1GM Drums (Complete Kit) from the options in the menu that
appears.
To Create a Drum Track Using the Pattern Brush
1. Select the track you have assigned to a drum map and select View-Piano
Roll.
The blank drum track appears in the Drum Grid pane of the Piano Roll view.
2. In the Piano Roll view, click on the down arrow to the right of the Pattern
Brush tool and select Kick+Snare Patterns (R-T)-Stacy 7.
3. Click the down arrow again and select Use Pattern Polyphony. This option
tells SONAR to use the original pitch values when “painting” notes in the
Drum Grid pane.
4. Click on the Pattern Brush to select it.
5. Starting at the beginning of your track, click and drag the Pattern Brush tool
for a few measures in the Drum Grid pane.
A series of notes, at different pitch values appears in the Drum Grid pane. If
you don’t see any notes, scroll down in the Drum Grid to see the notes.
6. Click the Pattern Brush down arrow again and select Cymbal Patterns (C-
F)-Fill 4.
7. Repeat step 5.
8. Listen to your drum track. Make a mental note of the drum sounds your hear,
because they are about to change.
Now it is time to mix things up a bit. Lets send some of your drum sounds to a
different output.
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