Drum Map for multiple instances of A|A|S Player

[Starship Krupa]

I was inspired to do this after observing how many A|A|S soundpack presets are drum hits.

It was puzzling to me how I was supposed to use them. Multiple instances of the plug-in and a MIDI track for each? Ugh. 5 MIDI tracks and then 5 instances of A|A|S Player?

As it turns out, multiple instances of Player share with each other to help keep resource usage lower. It also occurred to me that one of Sonar's features, one that I've had my share hassles with over the years, might allow me to map notes from a single MIDI track to different instances of A|A|S Player.

As Piet Hein said, "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back." I figured I'd learn a lot by trying it. And I got it to work. To do it, I had to create a track template to go with the drum map.

So....

Here is a ZIP with a track template and drum map that will create 5 instances of A|A|S Player and a MIDI track mapped to them. In the templates, There's also a full project template that starts with all of this set up. I have A|A|S Player set to use patches that are found in the free Swatches instrument so that anyone can try it. If you own a few A|A|S soundpacks, you'll have more options for sounds. As I post this, they're having a flash sale on their Kicks and Snares soundpack, which is accurately named.

The note/key layout is supposed to resemble GM Drums. 36 is kick, 38 is snare, 42 is hat, and 48 and 50 are tom and effect.

In order to use them,

1. copy AAS Drum Map.map from the archive to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Sonar\Drum Maps
2. copy AAS Track Template to whatever directory you use for track templates. By default that is C:\Cakewalk Content\Sonar\Track Templates
3. copy AAS Swatch Drum to C:\Cakewalk Content\Sonar\Project Templates

It works on my computers, but that's as far as my testing can go. Please let me know if you try it and have success (or lack of it).

AAS Player Drums.zip