Reason Drum Kits has a few key mappings on offer but the instruments are typically separated by default, i.e. (*I can adjust the Scale of the note sequence but this is too imprecise too work in the case of triggering these drums.) The Bop Pad software is limited in that it can only assign adjacent MIDI notes*, so I could program, for example, a quadrant to trigger C1, C#1, D. This works because Logic lets me assign each drum component to an individual MIDI note, i.e. This is good but there's another, even more interesting, app for Bop Pad that let's me program each quadrant's radius so I can play multiple drums in each quadrant.įor instance, in Logic's Drum Designer, I can program Quadrent 1 to have the outer radius be the edge of a ride cymbal, the middle of the radius play the middle of the ride, and the central part to trigger the ride's bell. It has a software setup that lets me control and assign four quadrants of the circular pad. I like the Bop Pad because it lets me play with sticks or hands, without the space or financial investment of a whole e-drum kit. Hi, I'm trying to map a Kieth MacMillan Bop Pad MIDI controller to a trial version of Reason Drum Kits.
