Topic: Superior Drummer and Protools mapping

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Replied May 14, 2019 at 07:29 #2452919

John
Moderator

Hi,

I am uncertain which MIDI mapping Xpand2 follows. It *should* be GM compatible as is SD3.

Perhaps you could ZIP archive a Pro Tools .ptx file with your Sibelius MIDI on an SD3 Instrument Track and attach it to a post here, so I may have a look?

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied May 14, 2019 at 08:04 #2452923

coerrace
Participant

I attach the .ptx. It has just the drums and like it is now is the direct export from sibelius with similar drums mapping as the photo I posted earlier. The .ptx also has the Xpand2! in inserts nothing else. What I pretend with superior drums is the same. Because edit the midi notes in Pro Tools when you have a lot of projects to do would be not practical. Maybe I did something wrong. Anyway tell me what you do to make work.

Thank you

Replied May 14, 2019 at 23:37 #2453063

John
Moderator

Hi,

from what I can tell, the Xpand2 kits are GM compatible, which means SD3 should play back drums with the same instruments.

What will not map correctly, is percussion MIDI, since those spots in the MIDI Layout is for the Extended mapping of articulations in SD3 (Toontrack MIDI).

When I play your MIDI back with first the Xpand2 module and then insert SD3 with e.g. Indie dry kit, it sounds like the same type of instruments, so I do not see anything wrong here. Unless I misunderstand, of course.

Check my attached MP3 examples:

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied May 15, 2019 at 00:07 #2453069

coerrace
Participant

Maybe my question is more simple. I placed in insert the SD3 plugin then I select indie drum rock as you and I click play and I don’ hear nothing. I just see the drag MIDI song block here. How you make SD3 taje the notes of the MIDI, or what you did to pass to SD3? I ask because Xpand2! you only need to put the insert and that’s all you can play. Here I don’t know how to send the MIDI notes to SD3, in other words, what you did?

Replied May 15, 2019 at 00:11 #2453070

coerrace
Participant

I ask this because usually my MIDI files exported from Sibelius usually they have a lot of instruments and protools make them one track per instrument. It means my MIDI files are not just drums, then is why I ask how can I do from the track of protools of the drums pass it to the SD3
Replied May 15, 2019 at 08:24 #2453126
John
Moderator
Hi,

if you create a new Instrument Track, the first inserted plugin should get the MIDI routing set up by Default. In other words, I didn’t do anything more than create the track, insert SD3 and then copy the MIDI over from your Xpand2 track.

If you switch out plugins on an Instrument Track in Pro Tools, e.g. switch out the Xpand2 plugin for SD3, sometimes the Instrument Track’s MIDI routing isn’t automatically following, so you need to expand the Mixer view in Pro Tools to show the MIDI In/Out for the Track, so you may set it correctly.

If you get separate MIDI Tracks, not Instrument Tracks, you either copy the MIDI to your SD3 Instrument Track or route the MIDI Tracks’ outputs to the SD3 plugin.

upload-John.ptx_

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
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Replied May 19, 2019 at 05:15 #2454132

coerrace
Participant

Thank you very useful. Is incredible the quality of SD3 I tried the rock premier and wow it has energy and life.

Thank you again is working now everything!

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