Additional instrument – mic routing

[Jean-Marc Boulier]

Hi,

 

I have added an additional instrument (18″ Istanbul 30th / 20″ Meinl Byzance Heavy Stack) to a Pearl kit (from the George Massenburg library).

It is routed to output 1/2 by default, so in my DAW it comes out of the kick bus, which obviously isn’t convenient at all.

In SD3 the instrument is routed to the X-OH Dyn mixer channel. The X-OH Dyn channel is sent to output 1/2 by default, which I’m assuming is the reason why it goes to the kick bus in my DAW.

The problem is, if I select anything else than output 1/2, there is no more sound coming out of the mixer for this instrument. How can I route this channel to an OH bus or something more convenient than the kick bus?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: Windows 10

Jean-Marc
Music producer & audio engineer
SoundWise

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[Brad]

How many output channels do you have active? Which DAW are you using?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
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[Jean-Marc Boulier]

I have the default mixer settings for the Pearl kit in the George Massenburg core library, so there is 7 stereo output busses in SD3 and I have the matching 7 channels in my DAW (Reaper 6).

Jean-Marc
Music producer & audio engineer
SoundWise

• This post was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Jean-Marc Boulier.

[Brad]

Jean-Marc Boulier wrote:

I have the default mixer settings for the Pearl kit in the George Massenburg core library, so there is 7 stereo output busses in SD3 and I have the matching 7 channels in my DAW (Reaper 6).

• This post was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Jean-Marc Boulier.

Sorry for the late response (it was 1am PST when I replied) so I setup session like yours (although I am Studio One the DAW should be of no consequence)  and routed X-OH Dyn to Outputs 3/4, Outputs 5/6, Outputs 7/8… Outputs 13/14 successfully.

In the SD3 plug-in would you mind going to file > Save as and save the SD3 project. Put it in a zip file and post it here so I can take a look?

Cheers

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

[Red Gear Music]

Why not change the mic routing away from X-OH1 to the default OH Dyn where all the other cymbals are routed to so that any effects already applied to that channel are used on the newly added instrument as well?    To do that, right click on the newly added instrument, select MORE, then select ROUTE INSTRUMENT MICROPHONES, and finally select whatever microphone you want that instrument to route through; typically OH Dyn for cymbals.

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[Brad]

Red Gear Music wrote:

Why not change the mic routing away from X-OH1 to the default OH Dyn where all the other cymbals are routed to so that any effects already applied to that channel are used on the newly added instrument as well?    To do that, right click on the newly added instrument, select MORE, then select ROUTE INSTRUMENT MICROPHONES, and finally select whatever microphone you want that instrument to route through; typically OH Dyn for cymbals.

Bryan’s suggestion is absolutely the simplest way to go if you want the new instrument to be processed within a group (OH Dyn for example), right click the instrument > more > route instrument microphones in the drum kit or in the mixer, show bleeds selector and select at the top of the “X-OH Dyn” channel and select route instrument microphones.

That being said, I can’t see why you can’t route your X-OH Dyn to an output channel as well.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

[Jean-Marc Boulier]

I routed them to OH Dyn indeed, before I came back here and read your messages. That works, but I can’t figure out why I wasn’t able to route X-OH anywhere and I haven’t saved the configuration with which I couldn’t do it.

Anyway, thanks for your help!

Jean-Marc
Music producer & audio engineer
SoundWise

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