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Midi note mapping and controller mapping:
I use many different percussion midi triggers (Kat pads, MPC pads, Yamaha triggers, and regular keyboards.) All of these have different, random output notes for each pad. I also use many different drum samples and machines, each with different samples assigned to each note. In Logic, dealing with this is no problem.

What is needed in PT is NOT more and more fancy groove quantization and all of that, but basic features like midi note and controller mapping functionality. I need the ability to change G#3 to A2 and F1 to C4 etc. on the fly in real time (individual note transposing) and save those settings as a preset for any midi trigger to sample player combination. I can’t reprogram the triggers and rewrite the sample keyboard maps for every permutation.

What is midi mapping? Any input note may be routed to a different output note and assigned its own velocity setting, and name. Note mapping is infinitely helpful for drum programming. With note mapping:

Each individual input note can be:
• named (snare, hi hat and so on);
• mapped to a different output note (F# and G# for the same hi-hat sound, allowing you to play rapid repeats or transposed for another trigger/sampler combo);
• given a velocity offset;
• assigned its own MIDI channel

With related controller mapping you could quickly and easily reprogram midi controller data from one parameter to another. You could be using your mod wheel as a pitch adjuster then with a flip of a menu, have that wheel be controlling a filter. It’s in the same vein as note mapping, just reassigning midi data in real time.

Note mapping is indispensable for anyone who does much percussion programming.

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maybe Digidesin will listens us finally!!!! Who knows?

phase90 makes a good point…

avid/digidesign are in the business of selling hardware. they have consistently drip fed it’s loyal users (me, included, since sound designer days) with mini updates and occasional additional features.
midi learn, and the like, have been original features of the majority of pro tools’s rivals for many, many years but it has not been fully implemented in pro tools- will it ever?

don’t get me wrong, i really like pro tools, i use it every week, but since ableton improved it’s sound engine (still needs a lot of work to sound as good as pro tools) it is now more often my starting DAW. ideally, pro tools should be re-written (and has been to some extent with ardour) as the a lot of the code holds it back.

if it is implemented, it would make pro tools almost complete. it’s extremely important. perhaps this is the decade we’ll get it??

I vaguely remember the Peavey PC-1600 JL Cooper CS-10 working until 6.4 or something like that.