'Mapped instrument' for percussion notation not mapping

Question

I followed instructions to create a "mapped instrument" corresponding to drum samples from VSL. As I understand it, one assigns both a note head and an instrument group to each MIDI note. So, for example, my sampler instrument has three different kick drum sounds, coming from three different MIDI notes. I've assigned them all the "Drum Group" called "kick drum", and I've set the "Pos" field to 'down-arrow' 3.5, with the understanding that this means three lines below the top line, with an additional .5 to reach the bottom space on a clef.
Why aren't the MIDI notes that I've associated with the kick-drum settings, in the mapped instrument, appearing as they should on the score? When I change the MIDI-note/pitch in the piano roll, from a note associated with pos down-arrow 2 to pos down-arrow 4, I expect the note to go down two staff lines, but it doesn't. I can't make rhyme or reason of the connection between that track and the score it produces...?
Thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

In my opinion the best out there is BFD- I own it, and it sounds great. For Latin style percussion and other things like that you would need to buy the expansion kit, just to give you a heads up. It's designed to be a very good and very expandable system, with you having the ability to add sounds depending on what you actually will use, percussion, Jazz, etc.
Right now you can buy BFD 1.5 for $199, maybe cheaper somewhere, and upgrade to BFD 2- a major upgrade- for $199. That way you can sort of try it out and see if you like the sounds before committing all the way.
Just a thought. Go on their website and you can listen to it in action a little bit. A warning, though: right now BFD and Logic can't used BFD's multiple outputs. It's being worked on. You can only get the stereo out, not each piece of a kit onto a separate track, which is a major reason I got BFD.