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I have Remote SL myself and I'm using it's pads to play drums in Impulse. Anyway, I'm considering buying Addictive Drums or EzDrummer and I thought if it's possible to map 8 drum pads so that I could play these drum machines without changing anything in the controller, but only in the software?

These kinda plugins use many octaves, but I could pick the most common keys like kick, snare etc and I'd like these to play when playing the pads.

The pads are currently mapped from C-3 to C-4 and I need to keep them so to be able to play Impulse too.

So: any way to remap these keys without touching the hardware controller's mappings? In other words, route C-3-C-4 to some other keys?

I am a bit bias here as I am a hardcore DFH - DFH Superior - EZDrummer user for many years and I would strongly advise you to check them out.

Now the easiest and coolest way from my point of you to achieve the mapping your aiming for is to assign your pads (Live's MIDI Map) to individual MIDI clips in the session view containing single notes (kick, snare, hat etc.) and trigger them with quantisation off. The cool thing with this is that you can trigger MIDI clips containing more than one note like kick + closed Hat or snare + open hat, flams, short rolls etc. You can then record your performances and consolidate, quantize them accordingly in arrangement view.

Superior lets you assign any MIDI notes as triggers, as it has a MIDI Learn function, but costs more.

Addictive drums can be mapped quite easily, i use it with a mpd16
and just map it over 16 pads, and it works a treat
and the software is the finest out there for any drum sound you are after
especially because it aint no cpu hog!

also check out the new hardware version they have just released
it looks damn scary
http://www.xlnaudio.com/UserFiles/xlnau ... D_2007.jpg


i know thats not much help for your remote sl situation?
i just like telling everyone how good AD is

Yep, I'm quite conviced of it too. I actually managed to make a rack to map the AD demo correctly for my Remote. I'll buy it when I get the money!