drums staff sheet
Posted on 1-Sep-13 23:59Viewed 1879 times
I didn't find how to print the staff sheet for the drums kit in Songtrix. If this is not possible, could someone please suggest a concrete workaround?
For the moment, the only way I can see is copying the drums track manually to some music notation software. Fortunately, the drums track is not too complicated in my case ;)
That's about the only option for the moment. We ommitted drum notation because there is no clear standard for placement on drum beats on the staff.
Remember that you can have up to 128 different drums tones playing at once with Midi, and they all have to be accommodated somehow.
We left this task for a future review. Any suggestions you have about how we should do it will be most welcome!
Thanks for your comment. Each line and space of the staff is usually assigned a different part of the drum kit and these are often laid out at the beginning of a piece of music as a legend or occasionally labeled when they initially appear in the piece. With 128 different drums tones we would theoretically need about ten different shapes for the note heads. Besides the traditional ellipse, we have the cross, triangle and square in drumset notation. Since these are not enough, maybe we could additionally use these same shapes framed with circle, triangle or square...