Here is a list of all the General MIDI percussion mappings if you need to reference them. You don’t have to use General Midi for everything, but it will make your life easier with Superior Drummer as well as any other percussion software because it is a default standard. Your module likely already is set up to use these notes as it’s outgoing midi, but there may be some notes that don’t fall in line with these standards. For instance, if you set your bass drum as note 36 (in your drum module) the percussion software on your computer will know to produce the sound of a bass drum, because note 36 is “Bass Drum 1” in the General Midi standards. This is a basic set of standard notes that percussion software knows how to interpret. Now, the simplest and best way to set up your module is to have the outgoing midi be in line with the General Midi standards.

The velocity number goes up to a max of 127.

A higher velocity number will produce a harder hitting drum sound in order to sound realistic. The other information these “hits” send the computer, is the velocity at which you hit the drum. This is what tells the drum samples to play in Superior Drummer. In drum terms, MIDI notes can be thought of as simple “hits” that tell the computer that a note has been turned on (and then immediately off). If you use a Roland drum brain, here is a good video on fine tuning the settings of the hi-hat in the module itself so that you can get optimum performance. If it isn’t working with the built in sounds on your module on it’s own, you may have issues that Superior Drummer won’t be able to fix. Refer to the manual of whatever device you are using. Having everything already working in your current drum brain (aka drum module) is the foundation for everything that will be communicated to Superior Drummer.įirst get your kit and hi hat sounding good with your drum brain itself. It looks like a lot of info, but that’s only because I try to go over every step in a way that any user will be able to understand. I previously made a guide on setting up version 2, but here’s a new one on how to set up the hi-hat in Superior Drummer 3.

Using superior drummer 3 live