Changing presets mid set for live music

[Zachb36]

Is there a way to load different profiles via midi sends?

For those of us who use superior drummer 3 live this is crucial.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.3
Operating system: macOS Tahoe (26)

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[Rod Simpson]

I use VSTs of each drumset I want and set them up in my DAW(ableton live but any daw would work) and map each vst to a midi note. Then you can send a midi note to your DAW to select whatever vst (SD3 preset) you want to use.

Hope that gives you a start – however it will eat up a lot of ram.

Operating system: Windows 11

[drumjack52]

What do you mean by ‘profile’? Preset? Not in SD3 if you’re talking standalone. Maybe in a daw using the daw’s automation.

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

[Tom Conner]

I use Cantabile as a VST host and have my gig drum presets preloaded so that I can switch between them live with no delay. I have forward/back preset hot keys marked on my laptop keyboard so I can see and hit them quick and easy, but you could also use midi.

DWe six piece kit, Roland BT-1s w/WT-10s, RME Fireface interface, JH Audio IEMs w/Fiio Amp, Porter & Davies transducer, Razer 16 laptop, SD3 (State of the Art, Stockholm, Hitmaker, Legacy of Rock, Decades, Death & Darkness, Fields of Rock, Stories)

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[drumjack52]

Tom Conner wrote:

I use Cantabile as a VST host and have my gig drum presets preloaded so that I can switch between them live with no delay. I have forward/back preset hot keys marked on my laptop keyboard so I can see and hit them quick and easy, but you could also use midi.

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So do you have multiple instances of SD3 in Cantabile? Sadly it looks like it’s Windows only and I’m on a Mac. I could use Blue Cat Patchwork as a host but I’d still have to have multiple instances of SD3 loaded up and I ain’t got infinite ram.

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

[Tom Conner]

Yes, I have about 165 total SD3 drumset and one DW SoundWorks presets – probably too many but I love it! – and each is it’s own instance. Eight of them that I use for gigs I have set to preload into memory so they are immediately available, and the others load normally taking a little time. I forgot that it was Windows only, but yes there are many VST hosts out there for mac and pc both. And you can get pretty far with not tons of RAM, particularly if you don’t mind dialing down how many layers are loaded into each instrument.

DWe six piece kit, Roland BT-1s w/WT-10s, RME Fireface interface, JH Audio IEMs w/Fiio Amp, Porter & Davies transducer, Razer 16 laptop, SD3 (State of the Art, Stockholm, Hitmaker, Legacy of Rock, Decades, Death & Darkness, Fields of Rock, Stories)

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[drumjack52]

Tom: Do you load all 8 to memory? Or just the bare minimum that SD3 gives you? I have several kits that go well over 13 gig each when fully loaded to ram.

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

[Tom Conner]

I load all 8 presets into memory, think it uses about 40GB of RAM or so, each kit with no layer limits. I was lucky to have bought 96GB of RAM back when it was much cheaper than now. Tho I guess for Macs you can’t upgrade RAM.

DWe six piece kit, Roland BT-1s w/WT-10s, RME Fireface interface, JH Audio IEMs w/Fiio Amp, Porter & Davies transducer, Razer 16 laptop, SD3 (State of the Art, Stockholm, Hitmaker, Legacy of Rock, Decades, Death & Darkness, Fields of Rock, Stories)

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