Actual drum notes?

[glowtone]

I’ve read the manual and watched the video about tuning a drum sound and it all makes perfect sense but I can’t find what the actual drum note is before tuning. If I have a kick that I want to tune to the key or note of a bass line for instance how do I find the original note of the drum?

I understand how to move it up or down and how the Octave.Semitone.Cent algorithm works but I’m going in blind if I don’t know the starting point.

Am I missing something obvious?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7
Operating system: Windows 10

Topic

[ChadwickDunderc0ck]

Go by freq. freq is a note. Find a way to measure or isolate the freq of each drum as you adjust.

Or just go by ear.

https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

 

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

• This post was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by ChadwickDunderc0ck.

[glowtone]

Yeah, I could play it in FabFilter Q3 and look for it there or through Melodyne or Variaudio, it just seems an oversight not to have it displayed in SD3 itself, it would save a bit of faffing.

[ChadwickDunderc0ck]

Just found a way and it made my kit I’m working on sound great.

I have a few EZkeys pianos and synths. I created a scale with each note I wanted each 3 bars long.

in SD3 I created a second ‘track’ running through each drum individually for 3 bars. Bass, Tom, tom2….

I just looped each 3 bars while using the instruments global tuning.

Get EZkeys for nothing more than this. 👍🏻

Save it as a starting template in daw..

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

• This post was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by ChadwickDunderc0ck.

[Author]

Replies