I was just leaving SI-Drums because I had not found a mixer to separate the tracks and here is the solution: Drum Map. Thank you! Amazing how this video come just in time!
This is exactly the sort of video that drew me to Mike's channel in the first place: Practical ways to use Cakewalk out of the box to achieve solid results. There was nothing here that was particularly new to me, but having it presented in this clear-headed fashion made it all fall into place for me. (And this from someone who has been using Cakewalk since it was just a sequencing program, decades ago!)
Great thanks! There’s also a drum map for SI drums already available by default with cakewalk - it’s labelled Studio Instruments - Drums in the dropdown of presets
The drum map presets are found in the track’s output source dropdown. Click “New Drum Map” and then scroll down to the S’s to find “Studio Instruments - Drums”
For anyone still trying to do this. At 4:35 CS right clicks on the drum icon, this gives you the number to use when adding to the drum map. I wasn't able to down load the Map or Template and stumbled though it manually. Hope this will save you some time. Thanks for the videos and all your knowledge.
I just found this video and I must say, "WOW"! Thanks so much. I wish I had the time to sit and watch you all day long. You always have such great tips and tricks for using Cakewalk. You are a real blessing! Keep up the great work! :)
This is great, just spent an hour setting up my ultimate drums. Think it’ll be a starting off template for all future projects. I’m new to cakewalk so you’re channel has been a massive help. Thank you so much for doing this, it’s much appreciated 👍
As per usual Mike, it's only a couple of minutes in and I've learnt something new already! I didn't know that where you clicked on the drum made a difference to the velocity. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Mike for all of your detailed tutorials! While there may be more than one way to , er, skin a cat, you always do so so quite neatly. Having used Cakewalk for a couple of "brute force" years, these tips and tricks really pay off quickly. Thanks again!
Thanks, Mike. You really know to boil down the complication to using a very complex system. Having watched many of your videos has shown me how to use the various features of CW.
Thanks for this! I've gotten away from using SI Drums because of the limitations but will definitely give it a try again with the presets. As someone that doesn't play drums at all, I like having as many options as possible.
Yes me too. I can get drums rhythms looped just fine but need a real drummer to make the fills and tricky things a good drummer does naturally. I need fills! Freddy Fingers just can't play fills. (trying to play drum fills using fingers on a keyboard)
Hi Mike, I was already thinking along the same lines as to how to accomplish this. But what hadn't occurred to me was the drum map part of it. When you got to that part I was saying out loud, "OH OKAY!" THANK YOU!
I very rarely comment on TH-cam... however... I appreciate your cakewalk series ... I've recently had the recording bug (for about 15 years)...finally starting to get setup and track some things and your videos have been invaluable to streamline production within cakewalk ... much appreciated!! this drum hack was so worth the watch and application!!!
This is a really big deal to me. I appreciated the range of sounds available to the SI Kit, but always used another product just because I couldn't process individual drum tracks. Thank you so much for The Big Idea!
Sadly, the links to the template and set up files don't seem to work anymore. I suppose it'd be asking a lot that they still work after a couple of years. I do appreciate the tutorial, though. Thanks for sharing all of that awesome knowledge!
Hi Mike - hope you are well! Clever workaround - I remember you saying a while back that the inability to route SI Drums components to different channels was an issue and that's a really neat solution! Nice of you to provide the resources too.
I know this is a SI Drums clip, but I learned a non- SI Drums tip just now from it. I wondered why the instrument interfaces used to pop open as soon as I added them, and then at some point they stopped doing so. Now I know the setting in the dialog, to control that, thanks very much
I had forgotten how nice the SI Drums sound as I tend to use Addictive Drums as my go to drum plug in. I like the way you have set it up, quite long winded as you said, but I am sure it is worth it when it is done. I think I know what my next little project is going to be!
This is a really interesting way to separate the drums. It can be done more easily with session drummer, EZ drummer etc but works well for SI drums. I use a lot of string pads on my songs and applied the same method to SI strings which works well too. Thanks
Unlike some other viewers there was a lot here I didn't know about so I obviously hit the like button and subscribed and will be visiting his patrion page to help him make more videos like this.
Thank you for guiding us throught this!! In Addition, if any of you is trying to map Alesis Nitro Mesh to Cakewalk, it could be usefull to try to create a new blank DrumMaps an add just the following Notes to it: Snare D3 38 Ring E3 40 HiHat open Bb3 46 HiHat closed F#3 42 Cymb1 Db4 50 Cymb2 Eb4 51 Tom1 C4 48 Tom2 A3 45 Tom3 G3 43 Kick C3 36 At least in my case it works ;)
Man, over the past 20 years I have tried all kinds of approaches to drum vsts( Groove Agent 2 and 4, SD3, BFD2, AD2, RealiDrums, etc), but your method is right on the money for me! I have a pile of projects started that I want to "switch" to this drum approach. How can I insert this set up efficiently/quickly? I'm already trying to "convert" my projects, but imagine there's a simpler way. OR at least I am hoping there's a simpler way! LOL I can see how this would simplify my life, both in terms of creating my drum track arrangements and in terms of mixing. THANK YOU! (Fair Dinkum!)
Awesome Mike, this has really opened my mind to some very cool things to work on. Do you, have or have you already done a video on the Event List window? As I use a lot of MIDI, I find this particular window is invaluable to my workflow. It is the sole reason I stayed with Cakewalk....until I started watching your videos and have learned so much more about how powerful Cakewalk is. Anyhow, was just wondering, thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful knowledge and experience.
Man oh man Mike,ya clever rascal you!!! LOL... This is KILLER STUFF man. I'm gonna try it,download the preset and all, and see what happens.Love the extra control ya have when doing it like this!! I see I can use Studio Instruments as well. Been awhile since I've commented,BUT I ALWAYS promote ya and tell anyone your the go to TH-cam guy for Cakewalk!! IMO, the best most informative vids for sure!!! Stay Safe mate...Cheers..and PEACE #MusicMaker69
Nice one Mike! I kinda disregarded SI because the synth would only create one audio output - Really nice workaround - pretty handy for any synth that only gives one audio channel :) Massive 'DER' moment (Aussies will understand)
Here's a less laborious and easier way to get the results you want by using MT power kit and then SI drums. Nothing wrong with Mike's way..I love his videos..just an alternative to use the best features of both programs. 1. MT has way more beats, fills, grooves and they are easy to try. Use drag and drop to create your drums on ONE track. When you've reached the point where you're satisfied highlight the midi track and copy it. 2. Insert SI Drums. Make your midi track and paste what you copied at 1:00.00. 3. Go to "Process" and open Run Cal. Choose "split notes to tracks'. You now have a track for each drum piece. Select all those tracks. Hold ctrl and change all to "External input Ch. 10. and the output to SI drums...also light up all the blue squares "input echo. Lastly mute the MT kit. Now you can use the tunings and other kits to get the sound you want and add effects or edits etc. to each component.
I added the Steven Slate set for a very reasonable price and with the two of them, I feel I have what I need. I'd love to have a full kit, but the price of some of them has made me work with what I have.
Hi Mike, great tutorial as usual. I've downloaded the Ultimate SI Template and have a question for you about the layout of the tracks and buses. I see there there is an extra track for the Drum Room reverb and a separate bus for the Snare Reverb. Is there any difference in the way that these SENDS are being used? For example could they both been assigned as buses? Is there any reason why you've chosen to do it this way? Just trying to learn Cakewalk one step at a time get my head around tracks, buses, aux tracks etc. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Mike. Yesterday I saw your video mentioning the problems of the drumkit when trying to use effects only on one drum. And now you freshly made this video!! :-) Tomorrow I get my Novation Launchkey Mini MK3 and still not sure which DAW I should use as a pure beginner. I think to 90% I will use Cakewalk but I also installed MuLab and it seems also very powerfull but I can't find that much videos about it . Did you ever took a look at MuLab? For now: Many thanks for your videos Mike. You explain every step and I can follow them with ease. Thanks again and greetings from germany... :-)
I did manage to add midi patterns to the SI Drum kit by adding folders to the appropriate cakewalk SI drum kits folder but I could never remove them even if I deleted the new directories. If you ever figure this out, I would be much obliged to hear how. Great video and some excellent ideas for my composing!
I was wondering the same thing! I'm trying to set up my eKit and use it as a midi to record but have no experience doing any of this stuff lol im so used to playing acoustic drums and never tried recording anything before, let alone through an eKit. I hope someone responds
Hey Mike! I've noticed in the SI Drum kit that it does not have a cowbell. Is there a way to add this sound to the drum kit or maybe export one out of another drum plugin and assign it to a key on the drum map for SI Drums? Great videos, please keep posting them for they are super helpful. Thanks!
I'm an old analog guy learning Cakewalk and you've been a great help. Thanks for what you do!
You youngsters got it made! Back in my day, we had actually hunt down the mammoths for drumskins! Awesome video, as usual!
true... in my days many Tube Radios from the 60s ends in our garage
I was just leaving SI-Drums because I had not found a mixer to separate the tracks and here is the solution: Drum Map. Thank you! Amazing how this video come just in time!
This is exactly the sort of video that drew me to Mike's channel in the first place: Practical ways to use Cakewalk out of the box to achieve solid results. There was nothing here that was particularly new to me, but having it presented in this clear-headed fashion made it all fall into place for me. (And this from someone who has been using Cakewalk since it was just a sequencing program, decades ago!)
Cheers Timothy, much appreciated:)
Great stuff, Mike. Excellent tutorial. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why I couldn't hear the drums on playback! Thank you!
These "SI" thingies are underrated, I think. They sound nice and are easy to use.
I agree, the drum kit and electric piano sound great. Just discovered you can also use them in any DAW. I use Studio One.
Great thanks! There’s also a drum map for SI drums already available by default with cakewalk - it’s labelled Studio Instruments - Drums in the dropdown of presets
Oh my! I missed that (for years!!), thank you :)
Creative Sauce yep they could do with improving the labelling! But I think it’s the right one for the job
Where exactly did you find these presets? The drop down for Presets is blank on mine.
The drum map presets are found in the track’s output source dropdown. Click “New Drum Map” and then scroll down to the S’s to find “Studio Instruments - Drums”
I tried looking into separate tracks and outputs for drums last summer and gave up. This was a real treat. Thank you.
For anyone still trying to do this.
At 4:35 CS right clicks on the drum icon, this gives you the number to use when adding to the drum map.
I wasn't able to down load the Map or Template and stumbled though it manually. Hope this will save you some time.
Thanks for the videos and all your knowledge.
I just found this video and I must say, "WOW"! Thanks so much. I wish I had the time to sit and watch you all day long. You always have such great tips and tricks for using Cakewalk. You are a real blessing! Keep up the great work! :)
This is great, just spent an hour setting up my ultimate drums. Think it’ll be a starting off template for all future projects.
I’m new to cakewalk so you’re channel has been a massive help. Thank you so much for doing this, it’s much appreciated 👍
You are a great teacher. I have been using Cakewalk for over 20 years and you have shown me a lot of interesting tips. Thank you.
Thanks so much master. I almost watched al your Cakewalk tutorials.
U helped me a lot to create my music sounds good.
I'm so glad its helping Charlie, good luck!
As per usual Mike, it's only a couple of minutes in and I've learnt something new already! I didn't know that where you clicked on the drum made a difference to the velocity. Keep up the great work!
It starts getting scary... I was busy recording drums and just thought I'd see if Mike had a nice video on that...
One love!!
Hehe, excellent!
Thank you Mike for all of your detailed tutorials! While there may be more than one way to , er, skin a cat, you always do so so quite neatly. Having used Cakewalk for a couple of "brute force" years, these tips and tricks really pay off quickly. Thanks again!
Thanks, Mike. You really know to boil down the complication to using a very complex system. Having watched many of your videos has shown me how to use the various features of CW.
Thanks for this! I've gotten away from using SI Drums because of the limitations but will definitely give it a try again with the presets. As someone that doesn't play drums at all, I like having as many options as possible.
Thank you, I hope it helps.
Excellent! As an old school drummer, learning drumming software is more difficult than learning to play when I got my first kit in 1970... lol
Lol, so true!!
That's great.
Would love to see how you go about adding intros, fills and outros to your grooves.
Yes me too. I can get drums rhythms looped just fine but need a real drummer to make the fills and tricky things a good drummer does naturally. I need fills! Freddy Fingers just can't play fills. (trying to play drum fills using fingers on a keyboard)
Hi Mike,
I was already thinking along the same lines as to how to accomplish this. But what hadn't occurred to me was the drum map part of it. When you got to that part I was saying out loud, "OH OKAY!"
THANK YOU!
Thanks, Mike for unlocking those secrets which make a more versatile tool out of SI-DRUMS.
Appreciate your time and knowledge that you pour into your videos to make my life easier!! Thank you!
I very rarely comment on TH-cam... however... I appreciate your cakewalk series ... I've recently had the recording bug (for about 15 years)...finally starting to get setup and track some things and your videos have been invaluable to streamline production within cakewalk ... much appreciated!! this drum hack was so worth the watch and application!!!
This is a really big deal to me. I appreciated the range of sounds available to the SI Kit, but always used another product just because I couldn't process individual drum tracks.
Thank you so much for The Big Idea!
Creative Sauce: You are the man. I love Cakewalk and I love you!
Sadly, the links to the template and set up files don't seem to work anymore. I suppose it'd be asking a lot that they still work after a couple of years. I do appreciate the tutorial, though. Thanks for sharing all of that awesome knowledge!
Hi Mike - hope you are well! Clever workaround - I remember you saying a while back that the inability to route SI Drums components to different channels was an issue and that's a really neat solution! Nice of you to provide the resources too.
Thank you, I am only 2 days into using Cakewalk for the first time and learning fast as your videos are pitched just right.
Thanks. Worth mentioning: You need to center/reset the panning in the plugin or the pan values will be wrong in the mixer/console.
I know this is a SI Drums clip, but I learned a non- SI Drums tip just now from it. I wondered why the instrument interfaces used to pop open as soon as I added them, and then at some point they stopped doing so. Now I know the setting in the dialog, to control that, thanks very much
This tutorial was very helpful! Thank you! Now I understand Cakewalk's drum setup a little better now!
This is a godsend, many thanks. What a shame, the downloads no ,longer work. Oh well.
Thank you so much for this, Mike. You’re the best!
You are a good teacher 🎉
Genius. Put a smile on my face, which is hard to do b/c I'm kind of a jerk. Excellent.
Always picking up great tips and tricks from these videos. The tidying up using folders was definitely a bonus for me!
Thank you for your Cakewalk tutorials.
I had forgotten how nice the SI Drums sound as I tend to use Addictive Drums as my go to drum plug in. I like the way you have set it up, quite long winded as you said, but I am sure it is worth it when it is done. I think I know what my next little project is going to be!
Another superb vid Mike, thanks. Oh, nice Gretsch too!
Very much simplified and expressive. Another amazing lesson 🤘🤘
Excellent presentation and very helpful, thank you Mike !
This is a really interesting way to separate the drums. It can be done more easily with session drummer, EZ drummer etc but works well for SI drums. I use a lot of string pads on my songs and applied the same method to SI strings which works well too. Thanks
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Unlike some other viewers there was a lot here I didn't know about so I obviously hit the like button and subscribed and will be visiting his patrion page to help him make more videos like this.
This video is so useful! Thanks Mike!!
Love the work you do here
this video is so helpful! the links doesn't work anymore though. anychance there's a way to get the drum map/template?
Great video! Thanks for all you do for us that are new to Cakewalk.
Thank you for guiding us throught this!! In Addition, if any of you is trying to map Alesis Nitro Mesh to Cakewalk, it could be usefull to try to create a new blank DrumMaps an add just the following Notes to it:
Snare D3 38
Ring E3 40
HiHat open Bb3 46
HiHat closed F#3 42
Cymb1 Db4 50
Cymb2 Eb4 51
Tom1 C4 48
Tom2 A3 45
Tom3 G3 43
Kick C3 36
At least in my case it works ;)
Brilliant tutorial as usual
Very helpfull video again...thank you man 😉
Love this video. Thanks for your sharing.
Great video! so clear Thanks for all you do for us that are new to Cakewalk ! thanks !
Hi Mike... It seems your Drum Map Download link is already erased... Where can i get your new link...? Thank you very much...😀
Very nicely done!
Thank very much for your lessons.
REALLY THANK YOU!! THIS HELPED ME A LOT!!
Excelent as always. Congratulations!!!
WOOW THANK YOU SO MUCH. CHEERS FROM MEXICO CITY.
Man, over the past 20 years I have tried all kinds of approaches to drum vsts( Groove Agent 2 and 4, SD3, BFD2, AD2, RealiDrums, etc), but your method is right on the money for me! I have a pile of projects started that I want to "switch" to this drum approach. How can I insert this set up efficiently/quickly? I'm already trying to "convert" my projects, but imagine there's a simpler way. OR at least I am hoping there's a simpler way! LOL I can see how this would simplify my life, both in terms of creating my drum track arrangements and in terms of mixing. THANK YOU! (Fair Dinkum!)
Great video, very helpful!
Awesome Mike, this has really opened my mind to some very cool things to work on. Do you, have or have you already done a video on the Event List window? As I use a lot of MIDI, I find this particular window is invaluable to my workflow. It is the sole reason I stayed with Cakewalk....until I started watching your videos and have learned so much more about how powerful Cakewalk is. Anyhow, was just wondering, thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful knowledge and experience.
Thanks so much! Take care
this was super helpful, thanks
fantastic tutorial
Mike, thank you :) always to learn something new
Thank you for your lesson. Is there any chance download the drum map? It doesn't seem to be there anymore😢
awesome videos as always
Man oh man Mike,ya clever rascal you!!! LOL... This is KILLER STUFF man. I'm gonna try it,download the preset and all, and see what happens.Love the extra control ya have when doing it like this!! I see I can use Studio Instruments as well. Been awhile since I've commented,BUT I ALWAYS promote ya and tell anyone your the go to TH-cam guy for Cakewalk!! IMO, the best most informative vids for sure!!! Stay Safe mate...Cheers..and PEACE #MusicMaker69
Great tutorial!
Nice one Mike! I kinda disregarded SI because the synth would only create one audio output - Really nice workaround - pretty handy for any synth that only gives one audio channel :) Massive 'DER' moment (Aussies will understand)
You sir, are the best! Thank you!
Here's a less laborious and easier way to get the results you want by using MT power kit and then SI drums. Nothing wrong with Mike's way..I love his videos..just an alternative to use the best features of both programs.
1. MT has way more beats, fills, grooves and they are easy to try. Use drag and drop to create your drums on ONE track. When you've reached the point where you're satisfied highlight the midi track and copy it.
2. Insert SI Drums. Make your midi track and paste what you copied at 1:00.00.
3. Go to "Process" and open Run Cal. Choose "split notes to tracks'. You now have a track for each drum piece. Select all those tracks. Hold ctrl and change all to "External input Ch. 10. and the output to SI drums...also light up all the blue squares "input echo. Lastly mute the MT kit.
Now you can use the tunings and other kits to get the sound you want and add effects or edits etc. to each component.
Great video, really helpful. Thanks
Thank you very much for those tips. As I am a little bit lost in the MIDI ocean (😅), it helps me a lot 😏👌
Very helpful, thank you-new subscribing 😎🎶🎶
Great tips! Thank you.
Very, very useful. Thanks!!
Amazing. Thanks.
I added the Steven Slate set for a very reasonable price and with the two of them, I feel I have what I need. I'd love to have a full kit, but the price of some of them has made me work with what I have.
Well done! Thank you!
GrrrrrreeeeeeaaaAAATT!!!!!! Thanks . Mike rules!!!
Hi Mike, great tutorial as usual. I've downloaded the Ultimate SI Template and have a question for you about the layout of the tracks and buses. I see there there is an extra track for the Drum Room reverb and a separate bus for the Snare Reverb. Is there any difference in the way that these SENDS are being used? For example could they both been assigned as buses? Is there any reason why you've chosen to do it this way?
Just trying to learn Cakewalk one step at a time get my head around tracks, buses, aux tracks etc. Keep up the good work.
Excellent video! Very helpful.. Thank you.. You also have high quality on your video and lights.. May I ask what camera and lights you are using?
Thanks Mike. Yesterday I saw your video mentioning the problems of the drumkit when trying to use effects only on one drum. And now you freshly made this video!! :-)
Tomorrow I get my Novation Launchkey Mini MK3 and still not sure which DAW I should use as a pure beginner.
I think to 90% I will use Cakewalk but I also installed MuLab and it seems also very powerfull but I can't find that much videos about it .
Did you ever took a look at MuLab?
For now: Many thanks for your videos Mike. You explain every step and I can follow them with ease.
Thanks again and greetings from germany... :-)
I love you man!
OMGGG!! thanks a lot for this video! Can i use my eletric drums on it? Or is it just avaliable for keyboards?
I did manage to add midi patterns to the SI Drum kit by adding folders to the appropriate cakewalk SI drum kits folder but I could never remove them even if I deleted the new directories. If you ever figure this out, I would be much obliged to hear how. Great video and some excellent ideas for my composing!
Drum map link not working
How would this process change if I'm using an e drum kit that I'm playing, using the si drum vst kit sounds?
I was wondering the same thing! I'm trying to set up my eKit and use it as a midi to record but have no experience doing any of this stuff lol im so used to playing acoustic drums and never tried recording anything before, let alone through an eKit. I hope someone responds
Great content, thank you!
Hi Mike!!! Really enjoy the videos! Is it possible for me to play the drums manually through the Midi and still have individual tracks? Thanks!
Sorry but when i try to download the link there is nothing there for the mapping
super mike super
Excellent!!
Very well, thank you very much!
greetings is there a new link to download the template of this ?
Mike when you named the snare, hit ctrl c then just paste it to the workspace track name. just saves a few seconds
Hey Mike! I've noticed in the SI Drum kit that it does not have a cowbell. Is there a way to add this sound to the drum kit or maybe export one out of another drum plugin and assign it to a key on the drum map for SI Drums? Great videos, please keep posting them for they are super helpful. Thanks!