Bouncing SSD output in Cakewalk sounds thin

[fridaykr]

Hello,

 

I have Superior Drummer 3 on a single track in Cakewalk (no separate outs). When I play the track with the MIDI in Cakewalk it sounds full and how I want it. However, I want to bounce the track to audio and remove SSD from my project to save CPU. however, when I listen to the bounced track, it sounds thinner –as if all the room mics aren’t being captured. I have looked at the routing in SSD. Everything is going out 1/2. I am confused why this happening. Shouldn’t the output of SSD as an audio file sound the same as when the program is playing?

 

Kris

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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[fridaykr]

Update. for the problem I described above, I was controlling SSD with a separate MIDI track. For some reason, when I moved the MIDI directly onto the SSD track, the recorded output now sounds normal. I am baffled, but I will take it.

[drumjack52]

fridaykr wrote:

Update. for the problem I described above, I was controlling SSD with a separate MIDI track. For some reason, when I moved the MIDI directly onto the SSD track, the recorded output now sounds normal. I am baffled, but I will take it.

That shouldn’t have made a difference. Way back in time I started with Cakewalk Sonar and a Windows computer. Something I came to not use is quick bounce in Sonar as it never really sounded as I thought it should. Turns out that time-based effects don’t take well to faster than realtime rendering. Are you by any chance rendering faster than realtime?

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

Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
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

[fridaykr]

I don’t think I am trying to render in faster than real time. I simply armed an audio track and hit record.

[drumjack52]

fridaykr wrote:

I don’t think I am trying to render in faster than real time. I simply armed an audio track and hit record.

I don’t think it’s that simple. It doesn’t matter where the MIDI is coming from. Something else is going on. All MIDI is is instructions – nothing more.

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

Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
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

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