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Usage "MIDI Velocity Viewer for Drums and Percussion"

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Erriez edited this page Jul 5, 2017 · 5 revisions

This page describes the usage of Erriez "MIDI Velocity Viewer for Drums and Percussion" script.

  1. Click on the FX button of a track which contains MIDI items and click Add.
  2. Type: Erriez to search for all installed scripts from developer Erriez.
  3. Select the "MIDI Velocity Viewer for Drums and Percussion".
  4. Use the sliders and drop-down boxes to change parameters:
  • Slider1: Select the MIDI input channel 1-16 or Any
  • Slider2: Select the number of grid lines 0..10
  • Slider3: Select the number of notes per column 1..16
  • Slider4: Select a font size 10..40
  • Slider5: Select a configuration file
  • Left mouse click to hide/show the minimum/maximum velocities
  • Right mouse click to reset

Customize font

Edit the following variables in the script to change font and font size:

  • custom_font Enable custom font
  • font_type Font type
  • font_flags Bold, italic and or underline

Create custom presets

Open a file explorer to the REAPER\Data directory:

  • Files and directories Windows 7/8/10: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\Data\erriez_midi_velocity_viewer_drums\
  • Files and directories Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Data/erriez_midi_velocity_viewer_drums/

Create a new .txt file, such as xx-yy Name.txt. xx-yy is used to sort the presets: xx is the plugin type. yy the preset number.

GM note map Example:

// General MIDI drum map preset file (midi_velocity_viewer_drums.jsfx).

[Kick]
35	Acoustic Bass Drum
36 	Bass Drum 1

[Snare]
37	Side Stick
38 	Acoustic Snare
39 	Hand Clap
40 	Electric Snare

[Toms]
41 	Low Floor Tom
43 	High Floor Tom
45 	Low Tom
47 	Low-Mid Tom
48 	Hi-Mid Tom
50 	High Tom

[HH]
42 	Closed Hi-Hat
//44 Pedal Hi-Hat
46 	Open Hi-Hat

[Sym]
49 	Crash Cymbal 1
57 	Crash Cymbal 2
52 	Chinese Cymbal
55 	Splash Cymbal

[Ride]
51 	Ride Cymbal 1
53 	Ride Bell
59 	Ride Cymbal 2

File format

// Commment
[Column name 1]
<Note number 1> <Note description>
<Note number N> <Note description>
[Column name N]
<Note number 1> <Note description>
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