MIDI routing
Not connected
Start sends notes to this output. Choose a separate instrument or
virtual port—not a loop back into either input.
Windows / Ableton routing
Create a port in loopMIDI, choose it as the output here, then
enable it as input on your Ableton instrument tracks. Match each
track’s MIDI channel and enable monitoring. Turn off duplicate
Ableton latch/strum effects when using this app’s note gates and
strums.
Follow your pulse
No incoming note
One drum: set how many notes per beat it plays. Combined pads: set
the finest note you play; rests and mixed pads are fine.
Pad mapping
Pad 1 of 8
Kick
Your current map stays unchanged until Finish.
Individual pads
MIDI note numbers. Enter multiple notes with commas, or Learn one
pad.
Articulation & touch
Presets send keyswitch notes on each lane’s channel. Verify your
Kontakt snapshot. MIDI 0 = C−2 in these manuals; DAW octave labels
may differ.
Harmonic direction
Bars & breakdowns
Auto meter follows your snare's repeating cycle (or kick's), so a
7/8 groove gets 7/8 bars. A breakdown is a half-time feel (one snare
or fewer per four beats) played heavy; a normal backbeat ends it.
Switches happen on the next bar.
How the band chooses
Busy bars open the harmony; sparse bars hold the tonic. Tom fills
and crash accents can cue a related key at a phrase boundary. The
next phrase resolves home. Hold and Home let you steer that
movement without stopping your drums. Changes wait until the next
unscheduled bar.
Profiles
Song sections
Next section switches on the next bar, keeping tempo, the kit map
and controls. Map Next / Previous song section to pads in Controls.
A profile stores instruments, riffs, melodies, harmony, tempo, feel,
kit rhythms and Birthday settings. Kit pad maps and MIDI controls
are optional so one physical kit and one controller layout can stay
put. Theme and device ports never change.
Preferences & backups
Export/import carries kit maps and instrument profiles between
browsers or URLs. Device port IDs stay local to this machine.
Timing & safety
Keep this tab visible. Backgrounding, disconnects and timer stalls
stop output. These numbers do not include your OS, plugin or
audio-interface latency.