PAULJust spent 3 hrs programing drums for a new tune.”SAVE AS”……named it and saved to my desktop.Opened an hr later and everything is default.I lost all my work!!!
Markus WagnerI guess you are talking about saving a Project over FIle > SaveAs (.sd3p).
You can check out my experiences and puropses, for I am not sure if maybe it was just a user mistake. On my PC (Win7) everything worked fine
When using a self-created drumkit: Before saving a new project your should use the SaveAs function inside the “Drums & Mixer” menu to give the drum preset an individual user name, because then it does not have the Default name anymore. I want to say give it your own user name. This gives you the possibility reloading your kit it over “User Presets”, or find it over “Manage in Explorer” while holding the rest of your open project (Midi data, etc), and you can recognize easier if it is really your kit.
Furthermore you can set your Current Project (including all project data) as your default Project (File > Set Current to Default Project), a good choice if you are not working on several projects in parallel).
Save the project individually (File > Save As…), and maybe also use the copy function (File > Save a copy…). for saving it on a different place.
Attention: When opening a saved project, it will not open directly, you will first be asked what should happen with the current open (or default) project.
– “Cancel” will not load your saved project (in your case from the desktop), it keeps the current / default project open.
– “Save…” means you are first saving your current / or by default loaded project, before your project from the desktop is loading.
– “Don’t save” is best choice if you just want to load your saved project file (e.g. from the desktop) and if you do not need to care about your work before when it has been already saved by you.
vincent revillaI had the same problem . I did give it a name , and it did the same thing to me . You guys need to make it easier to use . You have to go through the act of God to figure this out ,spend a lot of hours on it and have it just disappear . Help us out . Make tutorial videos , change the program . Most of us are musicians not computer techs . We just want to get a good drum set , setup our tracks and make our songs .
CarlRadfordI’m having the same issue. I spend hours creating blocks with complex drum sequences. Press save. Then when I reopen it, parts of the blocks default or entire drums are missing. I’ve even had one song revert to nothing but a 4/4 snare in every block and no other drums.
And its not user error. After it third time it happened, I tested it by creating a random block. Saved it, closed the program down. Reopened it, and the block had reset. I then did the exact thing again. And it saved correctly.
Theirs definitely something intermittent with the saving.
BradI’m having the same issue. I spend hours creating blocks with complex drum sequences. Press save. Then when I reopen it, parts of the blocks default or entire drums are missing. I’ve even had one song revert to nothing but a 4/4 snare in every block and no other drums.
And its not user error. After it third time it happened, I tested it by creating a random block. Saved it, closed the program down. Reopened it, and the block had reset. I then did the exact thing again. And it saved correctly.
Theirs definitely something intermittent with the saving.
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)
You are using; Main Menu > Project File > Save As and it’s not saving your project. Are you in the Grid Editor at the time? Another window? Maybe it doesn’t matter. Just trying to replicate the issue.
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Bear-Faced CowI haven’t experienced anything like this either. If you can provide some confirmed steps, that would be helpful.
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CarlRadfordI’m saving by going through File > Save. To save my progress. I initially thought that it was due to having the grid editor open. But that doesn’t seem to make any difference.
What’s happening is I can create a project. Add some blocks, and save. I can then open the project again, make some changes and everything is working fine. but every once in a while I’ll open a project, and all the changes I have made to the blocks would have disappeared. And that’s ALL blocks not just what I had edited in my previous session.
For example; I can select a block, delete the kicks and add my own kicks. I will then save and exit. the following day, I can open the project and the block I edited the day before will be fine. I will then select a new or different block, and move the snare to be inline with what I want. I can then save and exit like before. And I would repeat this to gradually to create a drum track. If I open it again somewhere down the line it could be fine, or every once in a while when I open it, the kicks in the first block would vanish, and the snare that I moved in the second will also vanish. So any changes to the blocks that I have made will vanish, but the parts of each block that I haven’t touched will remain. And this will be in all instances where I have copied those blocks around.
I think something is wrong with the saving process. I’m just speculating so I cold be wrong. But I think when it saves, it firstly records what blocks are active in the project, then it records all the parts of the block that have been removed or location changed. After this, it records all the new parts that have been added to the block. And it’s this last step that seems to be the issue. If that hasn’t saved correctly or corrupted, It won’t be applied to the block in all its instances when you next open it. That’s the only explanation I can think of that would account for what’s happening. But this more of a rational guess into what’s going on, and it could be something else entirely.
Afolabi LipedeI have found the same issue; if I save the SD3 Project file and name it to match the current working track in Cubase 10.5, when I reload my Cubase 10.5 file SD3 will offer up the ‘default’ un named file. This is not a big issue when I am mixing in my own studio, but when I send the file to my collaborator in another studio the C10 file opens up with the ‘Default’ SD3 loaded – it does save my kit pieces, but not the performance tweaks that I had laboured over for some lonely hours! Is there a way for you guys at Toontrack to tag the SD3 file that has been saved with the C10.5 file we have been working on so it will load when the Cubase .cpr file is reopened at another studio, please?
Many thanks to all who have reported this issue, and to the hard-pressed techs at Toontrack!
All best, A Lipede
Afolabi LipedeMaybe I should rephrase this because the above looks woolly! What would be really great for all of us musicians working at distance in the world governed by Covid is to have a way to send DAW files to the other band members with the correct SD3 file tucked into the DAW saved file so no effort is necessary to retro engineer the delivered file for the recipient to hear the complete set of tweaks and additions that have been made by the sender of the DAW file. If the recipient could just open the DAW file and not have to search around, find and load the correct, saved SD3 file to make sense of the workflow between studios would save us time and effort. And it does make sense, really – doesn’t it? This is not a daft request. That being said, SD3 is a superb piece of kit, many thanks for that. It would be world beating if the SD3 files could be sent completely integrated within the commonly-used DAW files of choice in a wholly reliable way to our collaborators!
Many thanks,
A Lipede
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