EWQLSO Keyswitch Map Template in Sonar, Part 2

Part 2 of my tutorial on a technique for mapping keyswitches in EWQL's Play VST hosted in Sonar. It makes use Sonar's drum map feature to name and map keyswitches to instrument articulations.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Sonar
• Cakewalk
• EWQLSO
• keyswitches
• drum map
• EastWest
• MIDI
• tutorial
• template

[DelEngen]

@Architectonic01

No doubt, the drum map manager fells like a bad design from 1993. It's hideous. When I get the time I want to hack the file format and slap on a better UI. Unfortunately X1 made no improvement to this feature.

[Architectonic01]

I thought about doing this, but the drum map editor is terrible. You should be able to select all of the keys, set the same midi channel in one go. Then use the same generic map for all instruments. But no, you have to create a mapping for each and every key switch, manually selecting the midi channel and vst output. Patch change events are probably easier until they fix this. Pity X1 has issues right now.