Pad sensitivity in E kit vs velocity in Superior Drummer in DAW – any tips?

[FredH]

Hey folks

Trying to calibrate this Roland TD-17KVX so it’s syncing up well with Superior Drummer 3 (which is running in Studio One).

When I play the kit, it’s triggering so quietly in Studio One/Superior Drummer and I need to adjust all the pad sensitivities on my kit so it plays a proper sound in SD3. You know when you press a piece of the kit in the plugin and it plays a sample of a hit? When I play my kit physically it sounds nothing like that.

The issue is, the only way I can see to adjust everything is to hit record, play a few hits of the kick drum, note the velocity, adjust in Roland module, hit record again, play a few more hits. Is there a realtime monitor of velocities or something, or any tips you could give on getting everything sync’d up between the E Kit and SD3? I’m thinking at the moment to just play through the module and ditch SD3, which would suck because a) I really want to record and b) I bought the software haha.

Thanks all

Operating system: Windows 10

• This topic was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by FredH.

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[Mark King]

Try a search as this has been brought up loads of times.

First make sure the hardest hits on the kit generate a 127 velocity. The module is very forgiving but SD3 has a much larger dynamic range. Also turn the sd3 drums up.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

[FredH]

Thank you, I’ll give that a go. I think it’ll just take awhile to go back and forth between adjusting the pad sensitivity’s and recording in the DAW to monitor the velocity levels, and adjust them. I don’t suppose you know if Roland module is triggering @ 127 for hardest hits, will that be the same story in SD3 ? Thanks again, it amazes me how people get SD3 responding so well. To me the Roland module itself sounds great but to get SD3 playing with the pads like that would be incredible. Just gonna take a lot of calibrating I think. Cheers Mark

• This post was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by FredH.

[drumjack52]

Also keep in mind that when you click on a kitpiece in SD3 it’s played at full velocity. And try changing the velocity curve in SD3.

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