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When you select Use staff position, you can designate one octave of your MIDI keyboard to
input playing techniques.
By default, the Input techniques from MIDI key option is set to MIDI note 48, which is C3, the
C one octave below middle C (C4 = MIDI note 60). You can click the MIDI learn button and then
play a note on your MIDI keyboard to change the starting pitch. Assuming a starting pitch of C3,
ascending notes operate as follows:
● C3 (48): Previous playing technique
● C♯3 (49): Next playing technique
● D3 (50): First mapped playing technique
●
E♭3 (51): Second mapped playing technique
●
E3 (52): Third mapped playing technique
And so on, up to:
●
B3 (59): Tenth mapped playing technique
In general, we recommend that you set Use staff position for percussion input. Use percussion
map is normally only useful when you are inputting notes onto a drum set and you have already
memorized the General MIDI percussion map.
RELATED LINKS
Preferences dialog on page 45
Edit Percussion Kit dialog on page 109
Inputting notes for unpitched percussion on page 180
Changing the playing techniques of unpitched percussion notes on page 988
Default note selection during note input for percussion kits
During note input in percussion kits, you can press the letters on a computer keyboard that
correspond to staff positions for kits using the ve-line staff presentation type. For example, you
can press F to input a note on the F space or line.
In Preferences, you can set options for inputting notes into percussion kits in the Note Input
section of the Note Input and Editing page. For example, if you want to use staff positions to
determine notes, choose Use staff position for Input onto kit or grid.
If you have the staff positions set relative to Treble G clef, then F could mean either the bottom
space on the staff or the top line on the staff. In a standard drum set, this means either the kick
drum in the bottom space, or the ride cymbal on the top line.
When inputting notes in pitched instruments, Dorico Elements chooses the lower or upper
possible staff position based on which is closer to the current position of the caret.
However, when inputting notes in percussion kits, Dorico Elements chooses the staff position of
the note with the same stem direction as the last input note, rather than the staff position that is
closest to the current position of the caret. This makes it easier to input common note patterns
used in percussion kits.
For example, inputting kick drum and snare drum notes on a standard drum set is a common
pattern. The kick drum is in the bottom space, and the snare drum is two spaces above: ve staff
positions away from the bottom space, and four staff positions away from the top line.
You can press F for the kick drum and C for the snare drum.
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