Go to the Drums folder and select MPE Kits. Here you will see all of the
Drum Racks that feature MPE mappings.
MPE Kits in the Session Drums Club Pack.
Select and load your preferred preset. You will see that the pad grid has
a certain color scheme specific to the Drum Rack’s contents. Pads that
contain kicks and toms have the track’s color, whereas pads with
snares, hi-hats, and other percussion elements are shaded in different
variations of the track’s color. This way you can see at a glance which
pads contain similar kit elements.
MPE Kits have different articulations mapped to the Slide dimension.
You can play the pads as you would with any other Drum Rack,
however, instead of triggering the same sample for each pad with every
tap, you can also tap your finger vertically up and down on specially
mapped pads to trigger sample variations.
For example, the Snare & Press pad in the MPE Kit-Dark Plate Reverb
preset contains two elements, a snare hit and a snare press. If you tap
the corresponding pad directly in the middle, you will hear both sounds
at once. If you tap starting at the bottom of the pad, you will only hear
the snare hit, and as you start tapping upwards, you will begin to hear
the snare press sound. Tapping vertically on the Hihat Closed pad in
the same kit opens the pedal of the hi-hat, starting from a tightly
closed pedal at the bottom of the pad, to a semi-open one at the top.
Some MPE Kits have been designed to include subtle articulation
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