Adding your own samples

[Rallep]

Hi,

I don’t know of this has ever been touched on before (probably has) but I would love for Superior Drummer 3 to have a feature to add your own samples and I don’t mean just adding one shots. I would like to be able upload a snare that has recordings for different velocities (e.g. Hard-, Medium-, Soft- and Ghost Note Hits) and also various hits within those categories to avoid the machine gun effect or it sounding stale.

So basically what I’m saying is I would like to make my own samples work the same way the samples by SD3 do in SD3.

I feel like this would be well within the realm of possibilities for Toontrack to add a feature like this.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Cheers

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[Mark King]

Yes it has. I agree it would be nice although it’s not something I would use as the toontrack libraries are better than anything I could do. There is a workaround using stacking but it’s not a very elegant method. I suspect it won’t happen in sd3 though. More likely to be in sd4 or whatever the next version will be.

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[drumjack52]

Mark King wrote:

Yes it has. I agree it would be nice although it’s not something I would use as the toontrack libraries are better than anything I could do. There is a workaround using stacking but it’s not a very elegant method. I suspect it won’t happen in sd3 though. More likely to be in sd4 or whatever the next version will be.

The OP wants something like can be done in NI’s Battery 4. Agreed though that what’s in SD3 is way better than anything one of us could come up with.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.1
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Agreed… Battery is the far better choice for something like this. It can also be used alongside SD3 in a DAW via the MIDI out capabilities, thus having SD3 control Battery.

jord

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[Rallep]

I do own Battery 4. Do you know of any guides that explain how to do this? That would help me out a ton!

[drumjack52]

Rallep wrote:

I do own Battery 4. Do you know of any guides that explain how to do this? That would help me out a ton!

I’m not being sarcastic but try reading the manual – it’s in there. Or do a Google search. That would explain it better than any of us could do.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.1
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

[Rallep]

I’ll do that. So far I’ve been able to create a snare that triggers different samples based on velocity on my own. Now I just gotta figure out how to add the hit variations and to pass through the midi signal that I don’t need in Battery but would like to trigger stuff in SD3. I’ll definitely need the manual for those though, I think.

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