Best triggering hardware for SD3?

[elkabyle]

What would be the best e-drum hardware to work in conjunction with SD3?
I have a Yamaha kit at the moment, quite unhappy with the triggering, especially the hi-hat. Not sure if the module is bad or the pads/cymbals triggers are not adequate.

Is there a hardware manufacturer that works best with Superior Drummer?

Anyone here using the german made drum-tec brand by any chance? their kits look great (Diabolo series).

Thanks in advance!

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[Michael]

One of the best parts about SD3 for E-drummers is its MIDI in / E-Drums Settings page. It really allows you to tailor in the mapping and response of SD3 to your kit. So, we would recommend trying SD3 with your kit and creating a custom preset in the E-Drums settings before upgrading it.

Michael Sanfilipp - Toontrack
Technical Marketing Coordinator

[chris jones]

I have a DXTreme 3 Yamaha kit, also not happy with the cymbal mapping with the Yamaha preset in SD2. Will try SD3.

[elkabyle]

Ok, I installed SD3 yesterday and had a chance to play a bit. The response seems much better with the Yamaha preset, even the hi-hat.

Now I still have an odd issue where the velocity seems way lower when I play the yamaha dtx edrum kit, as opposed to hitting say a snare on the SD3 interface. Even if I hit the yamaha drum pad as hard as I can.
Anyone else?

Edit:
I just found this old entry from 2008 about the same issue:
https://www.toontrack.com/forum/e-drum-workshop/roland-td-12-velocity-help-needed/
This is the suggested fix from one of the Toontrack Admin:
“Ctrl click a drum to select all drums pull down the ‘hard’ velocity ctrl – voila! instant sensitivity increase”

Is there such a feature in SD3?

[elkabyle]

I think I found the feature to edit velocities coming from e-drums into SD3.
It’s in the Midi In/E-drums section:

[Henrik]

@elkabyle said:
I think I found the feature to edit velocities coming from e-drums into SD3.
It’s in the Midi In/E-drums section:
  

Correct! 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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