I bought Superior Drummer 3. What amazing songs it has wow! I’m impressed. Now usually I used in Protools the Xpand2! For example, in Sibelius I make my notation and then export to MIDI. That MIDI I import in Pro Tools and a new track for each instrument. My drums in Sibelius have everything well mapped, cymbals, kicks, etc. Then with Xpand2!, form example in drums, I select “Rock Kit” from the Xpand2 insert and automatically catch my drum mapping and hit hats, kicks, snares, etc. all is perfect.
This is the mapping I follow for my drums:
This is one example of my Sibelius drums:
Now in Superior Drummer 3. How can I make the same than with Xpand2!? Actually I loaded my midi track that and I inserted the Superior Drummer in inserts I see the Battery and you can hear if you touch in the picture of the battery, but if I play the track there is only one sound but it doesn’t catch the. appoint as Xpand2! does. Also I don’t see presentes as Xpand2! for rock, etc. types of drums. Then how can I make the detection of mapping and also there are presets?
Hello everyone. I am a drummer that is blind and have been working with other manufacturers software to make it accessible for blind and visually impaired musicians. We use screen readers such as Jaws or NVDA for Windows, and Voiceover on Mac systems to use our computers and even our mobile devices. Myself, and a programmer from Germany who goes by the name of AZ worked together over the past year and a half and developed an NVDA add-on called SIBIAC. WIth this add on, we are aiming to make software accessible, that normally is not possible. The add-on is free to download and use with the free NVDA screen reader and with this add-on, we have been able to successfully implement the use of EZMix 2. However we want to expand the toontrack library of software to include ez Keys, ezdrummer and/or SUperior Drummer. The tricky bit is that with the drum packages, the interface changes for the different kits and products in which is downloadable, however we may have a solution for that that will work in SD2, but not sure since we don’t have it, nor SD3. We are wanting to know if you guys would be on board about helping us make this possible. We have had success with competition software and we would love to use your product since with the ez mix success, we figured we will definitely reach out and try and bring more of Toontrack’s products to the blind and visually impaired community.
The Toontrack Product Manger is accessible via OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and works well. I myself own EZ Mix 2 and 8 expansions for it, and I wouldn’t have even thought about purchasing it but since it’s now accessible, I am happy to know I can use it and do not regret my purchase.
You can watch a demonstration of a pre-alpha version of me using ezmix 2 in this video:
