This is a suggestion that would be very beneficial to anyone who likes to record, practice or perform using an e-drum kit. In theory, if you selected the option to “Load e-drum kit pieces”, only kit pieces and articulations that can be triggered via the connected e-drum kit would be loaded. The number of available pads could be set up within the “Midi In/E-drums” tab.
Let’s say you have a typical e-drum set with kick, snare, three toms, two cymbals and hi-hats. There’s no need to load the additional two toms and ten cymbals that may be included in the chosen preset. Depending on the number of zones your pads and cymbals have, and whether they can transmit positional data, there may also be many unplayable articulations that need not be loaded. This could potentially cut RAM usage and loading times down to a fraction when compared to loading the entire preset.
In addition, it would be amazing if you could have different kit pieces or articulations triggered by certain velocity ranges, globally. For example, you could set up your snare pad rim to trigger a side-stick sound when played very lightly and then default to rimshot when hit harder. Another example would be adding the ride bell articulation to the upper velocity range of the ride bow, for those of us with cymbal triggers that don’t have bells.
SD3 has been built to be incredibly flexible, and I suspect these simple additions might be quite easy to implement. 🙂
