The basics

Drum maps are virtual MIDI ports that you create and edit. Drum maps give you total control over all the MIDI drum sounds you have access to either in the form of software (soft synths) or hardware (external MIDI sound modules).

Drum maps in SONAR allow you to do the following:

Re-map note events, for example, map a General MIDI drum kit to a non-General MIDI drum kit.

Create a custom drum kit from several MIDI devices (soft synths, hardware synths) and play it from a single MIDI track if desired.

Use the Drum Grid Editor to show only the drum sounds you want to see.

Sort drum sounds to suit your needs.

Mute and solo individual drum sounds

 

See:

Assigning a MIDI track to a drum map

Opening a drum map

To preview a mapped sound