I don’t know about that exact function but I did wanted to make sure that you know about the Tap2Find function which is on the grooves page. Here you can play a simple (or not) drum beat directly into SD3 from your controller and when you’re done SD3 will find the grooves that are closest to the beat you played in.

I use this when I kinda know what I am looking for. I just play a basic beat into SD3 (usually just kick and snare) and let it find what’s close (or exact) to what I am looking for.

Hope this helps!

-mike

Just to clarify, Logic’s Drummer doesn’t work like this either. It’s not some magical “groovinator” type of feature. It doesn’t do the work for you. You still have to select the groove you want to play and shape its complexity and dynamics, and it is a bit more of a manual process than using Tap2Find and Edit Play Styles, as mentioned above. Drummer won’t automagically find a beat for you.

The “Follow Track” basically takes the groove  you’ve chosen and will remove kick or snare hits based on the absence of corresponding transients on the track you’ve set to follow. However, this is more useful for tracks that have some sort of groove to it, rather than say playing a straight eighth note beat against a straight eighth note bass line.

You can exercise the same control using the SD3 using the grid editor, manually removing hits you choose, rather than letting the computer decide. The up side is that you can also add hits, which Follow Track does not do.

jord

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