Drum notes and channels
You can get a surprising amount out of four notes.
Drums sends on its own port, MIDIpad Drums. Out of the box it sends standard General MIDI percussion notes, so a GM-mapped drum kit works without you configuring anything.
| Drum | Note |
|---|---|
| Kick | 36 |
| Snare | 38 |
| Hi-hat | 42 |
| Open hi-hat | 46 |
All four notes are yours to move about, in Settings → MIDI → Output. The Drums channels row above them picks how they arrive.
One channel, or one per drum
It's the same choice as the Chords port's, minus Poly aftertouch.
MPE, the default, puts each drum on its own channel behind a master - the kick on 2, the snare on 3, the hi-hat and open hi-hat on 4 - announces the zone, and sends how far you're pushing the control that plays it as pressure and slide on that channel. Which control sends what is in the MIDI reference.
Multi-channel is the same without the master: the kick on 1, the snare on 2, the hi-hats on 3, slide and pressure intact, nothing announced. One track per channel.
Single channel puts everything on channel 1, notes and velocity only.
Why only four
The machine decides far more than four things - how open the hat is, how hard the stick struck it, where a stroke sits in a figure - and all of it reaches your DAW as velocity and timing on these four notes. Every degree of hat openness comes out on either the hi-hat note or the open hi-hat note.
The note names shown next to each number follow the Middle C setting. The numbers themselves never move.