Superior Drummer 3 Feature Request

[Richard Broadhead]

Loving SD3! A couple of small features (I think they are small) that would improve the usability imho

1. On Tracker, I find myself constantly solo-ing a track to make sure all the triggers are present. It would improve the usability, if you had a feature so that we could change the cursor into a “play” cursor and just click a section of a track to listen back to only that track (I think it’s called a scrubber, having a brain freeze at the moment!) That speaker icon in cubase for instance. You could put it next to the pointer tool, add tool, or split region tool.

2. Maybe I’m missing it, but in tracker if I could highlight a section of multiple tracks at once and then copy and paste the trigger points(with all the settings), that would be really helpful. A lot of times, I’ll have a super sloppy drummer, spend a bunch of time getting the triggers right and then need to duplicate that in another spot in the song but I cant figure out an easy way to do it.

3. Alot of times I put sd3 as an instrument track in my DAW. I’ll use the tracker feature as I’m trying out different kits and sounds to see how it sounds with the rest of the mix. However, many times the drums dont start at the same time as the rest of the mix. Therefore, if in tracker you could change the start time to line up with your tracks in the DAW would be awesome. You don’t necessarily need to modify the audio or anything, but maybe a field to add positive or negative seconds to get it more aligned. I realize I could just export midi and re-do it, but this would be more convenient.

Thanks!

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[Henrik]

@Richard Broadhead said:
1. … It would improve the usability, if you had a feature so that we could change the cursor into a “play” cursor and just click a section of a track to listen back to only that track (I think it’s called a scrubber, having a brain freeze at the moment!) …

A scrub tool is a useful tool! I’ll take a note of that request.

2. … in tracker if I could highlight a section of multiple tracks at once and then copy and paste the trigger points(with all the settings), that would be really helpful. A lot of times, I’ll have a super sloppy drummer, spend a bunch of time getting the triggers right and then need to duplicate that in another spot in the song but I cant figure out an easy way to do it.

You can copy the settings (the values for the different controllers) for a region, and paste it onto another, but it’s not possible for the actual detected hits. This is because the tool is designed to track the actual audio, not so much for MIDI editing. The song track is where the editing is designed to occur, for example copy the MIDI from chorus 1 to chorus 2. However, your idea might be useful, so I’ll take a note of that too!

3. … many times the drums dont start at the same time as the rest of the mix. Therefore, if in tracker you could change the start time to line up with your tracks in the DAW would be awesome….

We’ll take a note of this as a feature request!

Thanks for the feedback!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Richard Broadhead]

Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestions. I hope they end up useful to you and others.

[Anthony Burulcich]

Hi, I’m struggling to figure out a quick work flow to comp my different takes/tracks in superior 3 but to no avail. for now I find it easiest to track all my takes in logic then comp them down to one midi performance than bring that back into superior 3 for the editing process. it would be best if superior drummer 3 can do take folders like logic that way we can do a bunch of takes on our e-kits than comp them quickly in superior 3 and avoid logic totally. I feel this is the only feature missing thus far to properly call superior 3 an “all in” Drum recording DAW, unless I’m missing something of course? thank you!

best,

Anthony

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