OK I got it to repeat consistently. (With or without data in tracker).

1. Pull the tracker window down (min) it will arm 1 time only.
2. Pull the tracker window up even just one slot and problem gone.

Still have to test it inside my DAW.

Hi Jack

Yes, I am a complicated person. I am lazy and I feel that the use of macros to balance my kit on the fly is a luxury that I would like to have.
Now, can someone help me verify that I blew it up. Please

With the tracker minimized I use the mouse to toggle record on and off, and it only will do it one time.

When I expand the tracker to see what I have recorded or drug into there, the record function works perfectly every time by mouse or keyboard.

What I am trying to do is have one of you kind folks help me to verify that I broke the software, or is it an issue with SD3. I really do not want to have to download the software again uninstall and then reinstall.

I have never been down that road before. So I do not know if I will lose all my customization of my kits, all of my presets, etc. etc. etc.

Frankly it scares the crap out of me to think I have to start at zero.

Kind regards and thank you.

Cheers, Ken.

Hi Jack

Yes, I’m very familiar with Scotty, nice to meet another trecky.

I will say very loudly again

I do not record in SD3. Never have. I have always recorded everything in Cubase. that’s what it was designed for and my first version was v 5.2

I use macros to adjust the volumes of the kit pieces. Without having to open the mixer.

Eg.

1. Snare reverb.
2. Main snare volume
3. Main snare stack balance, by putting all the stacked instruments in one macro, you can invert, and/or turn off each entry. You can also limit the volume minimum and maximum, and you can even do non-linear adjustments.

I run 32 bus channels, and my instruments, all point to those channels.
I do my reverb my compression, and all my effects on those bus channels and route them to the output channels be it 1 or 32 stereo outputs. And I control those channels with macros.

My Korg nanoKontrol2 does this very nicely as it transmits cc#

As far as the record function issue is concerned it would seem that no one wants to verify what I am seeing, so I cannot determine whether I blew it up or if it is a bug in the software. I just thought that it might be something that superior drummer would like to know about, but no one wants to help so…… it’s a dead issue.

Now my workflow =

1. Record the vocals, guitars, Morocco’s, etc.
2. run it through a couple of times, tweaking faders and controls of compressors and fun stuff like that.
3. Mix down to a stereo track
4. Use tempo detection to set the tempos within the song from the stereo track.
5. Make a metronome audio track. I usually do a split at bar one position so that it basically gives you a count in.
6. Record my drum midi.
7. Reverse the audio in SD3. (Audience versus drum throne position.)
8. Tweak my drum sounds using the macro buttons in SD3 and my hardware controller.
9. Print the final mix in real time.

My audio interface has a return channel so I print my mix in real-time by recording the return signal.

I am 70+ and still willing to learn new things like macros.

In CuBase, you can write macros and assign each one to a keystroke. My corsair K 90 keyboard has three banks of 18 buttons that can each have a macro. So I might write three macros in Cubase “say a1, a2 & a3” and one macro on my K 90 keyboard to execute those 3 macros. This boils right back to the good old KISS scenario.

Let’s see, pushing one button on my keyboard, which triggers a whole bunch of work done in the DAW. Hmmmm

Do you think maybe executing one macro with one button is less efficient then using your mouse to set 55 different parameters 150 times a day. In my mind taking .375 seconds to push one button is a little bit more efficient than mousing around for 15 minutes doing the same number of tasks.

Your comment about “you’re trying to make the software do things it was never meant to do”(your words), is quite wrong, as superior drummer themselves use macros on some of their kits.

Check it out, where do you think I got the idea from? I did not even know it was capable of macros until one day I looked down in the lower right hand corner to adjust the main volume output, and found the button to expand the macros bar.

Thank you all for the conversation about this problem and your patience in reading my BS.

The final thing is, I still do not know if I broke the software or not.

I now have to go outside and throw salt down on the driveway and sidewalks so that I do not fall down and break my damn hip.

Cheers
KS

Hmmmm I’m missing “i”&”s”

KISS KISS love love bye.

Cheers

Ken