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Hi everyone. I’ve read everything I can find but nothing seems to be helping. I’m trying to set up my TD-27 to play live through SD3. The issue I’m having is that playing live is very quiet, like I’m lightly tapping on the drums. If I record said playing and play it back, the recorded midi sounds like I would expect and has correct velocities and everything. It’s baffling and and I’m out of ideas of where to look.
I’m on an M1 MAC, entirely up to date. SD3 is entirely up to date, as are all libraries. Happens whether I’m using SD3 stand alone or as a VST in Logic.
What am I missing? If the recordings were quiet too then I would be less confused but they are not. It happens whether I’m plugged into my computer via USB, or into an interface via MIDI. No change whatsoever. It also happens when I just just a midi keyboard to trigger SD3… quiet live, but recorded sounds are ok.
Any help is appreciated.
Edit: Meant to add that midi monitor shows incoming midi signals at max velocity as I expect.
Hi,
sounds strange indeed. Would it be possible for you to ZIP archive one of your Projects where you experience this and attach to a post here?
BR,
John
John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
Thanks for the follow-up! I’ve attached an empty project for Logic that shows the behaviour. There are no audio files because I coudln’t get it compressed down enough. Let me know if you need more details.
Thanks!
Opening your project, I’m just seeing the Default Gretsch kit without any processing.
If that is what you’re using, then yes the volume will appear quiet in order to allow all of the dynamics through. All of the kits in the core library are meant to cover a while range of genres and need to be processed according to the genre you are using them with.
jord
Why does it playback properly though? It sounds terrible live, but recording then playing it back it sounds like I expect. No additional processing. Even when playing live, the volumes appear correct in the meters (and are when played back).
Considering that all we have to go on is an empty project with default settings, there could be many speculations from the calibration of your drum module to the input monitoring of Logic when recording. There really isn’t a lot to go on here.
jord
I’ll try to record a sample for demonstration. As soon as I have any audio in the project it gets to big to zip and attach here. I cannot see any reason why the sound while recording should be any different than the playback when getting the same inputs. If it was quiet all around it would make sense, but it’s only while recording that I can’t hear it. Playback is fine.
It should t be any different. I do this without any problem. Is it to do with how you are monitoring it?
SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
I agree with Mark. It sounds more like your input monitoring settings. Logic (or any DAW for that matter) treats all MIDI conrtrollers alike.
Jord
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