Congratulations – you’ve run into something I’ve railed about since I got SD3 and that’s the kit piece mapping. Some of it is plain wrong like the rack toms. For instance drum General MIDI specs four rack toms and SD3’s GM preset (along with every other MIDI preset I’ve tried in SD3) ignores the first rack tom. Take a look at this page and you’ll see what I’m talking about. I’ve had to customize the GM preset and save it as a default for my use. You may have to do the same thing.

https://computermusicresource.com/GM.Percussion.KeyMap.html

Also the gui in SD3 is pretty much fixed in the kit pieces shown for a particular library. It happens to be that SD3 core library shows 3 rack toms no matter how many are actually used in a kit preset. Why Toontrack doesn’t allow the visual representation of a kit actually show what’s in the kit and not show ‘ghosts” of kit pieces that are NOT in that preset. For instance I have a few kits that use 4 rack toms and that 4th tom sits all by it’s lonesome in the upper left of the kit window. Kinda weird right?

Remapping MIDI in SD3 isn’t all that easy and the learn function mystifies me. I wish I could help further but I found what I did by accident and messing around with things. I’m hesitant to mess around with my setup to help you and sure wish someone else could help out here.

BTW to whomever is overseeing operations on this forum but the quote function and other things below a post have gone away and all I see is a ‘reply’ button and nothing else. Latest version of Firefox on a Mac.

Mark is right. If a Tom isn’t loaded in a slot, Superior Drummer will use the nearest kit piece in the group when the MIDI for that slot is fired. This helps keep continuity with other MIDI types of input, such as grooves and external players. The fact that you have an empty Tom pad firing the nearest Tom is not really an issue and certainly has not relation to anything Jack stated in this case. In fact, Jack’s case is more of the case of Superior Drummer won’t map MIDI for undefined kit pieces (that’s far different than unloaded). Why should it? There are libraries where those kit pieces are defined, and are thus mapped. And it’s not use bringing up the GM standard in this case because Superior Drummer has far more articulations than the standard provides. However, with the appropriate libraries, Superior Drummer does gracefully extend the GM standard.

jord

I think I understand what the OP’s issue is and it’s something I kind of talked about earlier (in terms of GM drum mapping) and that’s that there’s a difference between what Roland and Toontrack consider what tom responds to what note. IOW what Roland seems to consider tom 1 is and what SD3 considers tom 1. I put it down to SD3’s MIDI mappping even when using the appropriate mapping preset in SD3.

GM has nothing to do with this. The solution in this case is rather simple: take your existing map and modify it so that one Tom fires Tom 2 and the other Tom fires Tom 3. Save your map and use it whenever you use that preset. Or better yet save a project with that preset and load it every time you want to use it. That way your modified drum map will be included.

jord