Create Key Labels for 3rd Party Drum Instruments in the Piano Roll Editor

[Walter P]

When working with Logics factory drum kits in the piano roll editor, the keys are labelled with the name of the drum sound (Kick, Snare, Hi-Hat, etc.) It would be helpful to also have such key labels for 3rd party drum instruments (like SSD, XLN, etc.). I want to share my workaround to achieve this.

1. Create a software instrument track with Logics Multi-Sampler and open the Sampler without any samples loaded. In the Mapping area klick on EDIT > EDIT KEY LABELS … This will call up a list editor where you can input the drum sound names in the Label column (click on the desired note and hit ENTER to input the name, ENTER again when finished). When your list ist complete with all notes and names, go to the drop down menu at the top of the Window and SAVE KEY LAB SET AS … Close the list editor window and SAVE AS … a preset. Close the sampler.

2. If you use your 3rd party drums as a multi-out instrument, you usually have a summing track-strack with individual channels in it for the different drum sounds. Move the created Multi-Sampler track into this track-stack (you can hide it there, if you want). The Midi regions playing the  drum sounds are placed on the track-stack track. Select the region(s) on this track, open the piano roll editor and you will see the key labels.

If you use your 3rd party drums as a stereo instrument, create a summing stack containing the track with the drum instrument and the Multi-Sampler track. Do your Midi recording/editing on the track-stack track and see the key labels in the piano roll editor.

[Atlas007]

Thanx for sharing!

Another approach could be by using the Mapped instruments object in the Logic Pro Environment.