mark_orion wrote:Problem solved! I did not get the bit that I have to go to "Global Channel, Ports" in order to enable channel 10 for the Drum Machine. Everything working fine now. Thanks for your assistance and this great program in general. I was already worried that I cannot use G-Stomper studio as "Sequencer Central" in my setup of mixed hardware and software synths.
Great, thanks for the success report.
mark_orion wrote:The "Global" thing got me confused. Coming from an IT background where local always overwrites global I was assuming that "Sampler Channels, Ports" takes priority over "Global Channel, Ports" and not realising that both are completely different things.
Global in this context means only that the channel and its mappings is not bound to one specific instrument (such a a synth or drum sampler instance).
Global parameters can be related to the FX rack, the Master section, or also (as in your case) to the entire drum machine with all its tracks as a global module.
mark_orion wrote:What adds to the confusion is that the VA beast synthesizer does not require any global setting to get a midi signal. You just map the synth track to a channel and it works.
The reason for that is simple. A VA-Beast synth instance is always supposed to be played in a tonal way. In other words, it'll always be mapped to its own channel (per instance), and each noteOn even starts playing a particular note of that synth while each noteOff event stops a particular playing note.
The drum samplers on the other hand can be played in both ways...
1. Mapped to its own channel (per instance), and each noteOn even starts playing a particular note of that drum sample (there is no noteOff because a drum sample is only triggered, not held as long as a key is pressed like the synth).
2. Mapped using the Global channel, and then played as entire drum machine (non-tonal) where each pad can be mapped to one particular note (this is how a hardware drum machine usually works).
G-Stomper provides both ways of mapping because of the different requirements by different users and use cases.
mark_orion wrote:I wonder if the naming could be changed and the settings rearranged so that this is more clear. Personally I would prefer to have all drum machine related stuff under the "Drum Sampler MIDI Mappings" - including dedicated key mappings for the drum sampler.
I see your point, and what you're looking for is a dedicated "Drum Machine MIDI Mappings" section, outside of the global mappings and outside of the per track drum sampler mappings.
Unfortunately this change would be quite complicated and would require far too much changes for the little benefit.
This could easily result in 2 weeks of work with all the testing and deployment, and we simply have no time frame to do this at the moment, sorry.
If we ever revamp the MIDI concept, then we'll consider this of course.