olliepudge said
I checked all of the MIDI mapping and all three snares have the same note number (38) for the center hit , so when I hit the snare pad it should be triggering all three since it triggers the first one correct?
That is correct. All articulations that put in a stack will have the same MIDI note(s), since they should be triggered at the same time.
Even though your center articulation is being triggered when you hit your hardware MIDI pad, it is not sure that that it sends out a MIDI note that the center articulation is using. If you, for example, have turned of your Rimshot articulation and you play that - the hit will be redirected to a turned on articulation, in this case often Center.
To analyze what's going on, you can open the MIDI Mapping box (to see all MIDI notes connected to articulations), MIDI Monitor (to see all incoming MIDI) and MIDI Mapping Keys (if you want to see all triggered MIDI notes).
You can also open the Articulation Drop Down (that I mentioned earlier) to see what's going on. If a turned off articulation blinks with a orange crossed over speaker icon next to it, it means that you are playing a turned off articulation, and you'll see what articulation it substitutes to (plays instead).
I even hit the drop down menu under MIDI mapping and tried the learn function. I clicked that and hit the snare and got nothing. All three snares sound when I play one of the included grooves though.
This is strange, since when you active Learn in the MIDI Mapping box, it should listen to incoming MIDI notes, and just learn the first one that comes in. In this also it would help to open MIDI Monitor to analyze what's going on.
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