True or not, it’s in the eyes of the beholder 
It IS a daunting task that I’ve been working with the last few days. If you like the specific sound of one (group of) instrument(s) in a preset, you have quite a number variables to consider in order to carbon copy the sound into another preset. It’s easy to copy an instrument with its microphone channel strips (and FX if you stay within SD3 libraries), but then you have to manually set up any group aux channels with its processing, either separately for the imported instrument or by merging into an existing aux in the target preset. Then, if leakage is an important property of the specific sound, some tweaking there too.
It’s easier to stay within a single context, like the SD3 Core Library, at least as the recording environment is the same. However the contributing preset producers use effects, groups, stacking and leakage very differently, even if the result sounds very similar. With the versatility of SD3 there are so many ways to achieve similar results, which the producers have utilised. This is of course a feature – not a problem, other than that you have to get to know the SD3 environment and the “equipment” and find your own approach, just as you would to set up a drum kit for recording in the real world.
An added bonus is of course to get an opportunity to see how different producers approach drum production. 
True or not, it’s in the eyes of the beholder
It’s easier to stay within a single context, like the SD3 Core Library, at least as the recording environment is the same. However the contributing preset producers use effects, groups, stacking and leakage very differently, even if the result sounds very similar. With the versatility of SD3 there are so many ways to achieve similar results, which the producers have utilised. This is of course a feature – not a problem, other than that you have to get to know the SD3 environment and the “equipment” and find your own approach, just as you would to set up a drum kit for recording in the real world.
An added bonus is of course to get an opportunity to see how different producers approach drum production.
You right, it is in the eye of the beholder… and in my eyes is not daunting, especially compared to the way we used to do things 30+ years ago. Don’t expect any sympathy from me on this from this point on, if you choose to read further.
Considering that Olie mentioned in another thread that you can save your SD2 library presets as a User Preset and then use load part to get the mixer routings. As far as tweaking goes, you’re going to have to do that anyways because a mix is pretty much tuned to the kit pieces that are in it and you’d only be fooling yourself if you believe you can simply drop in a new kit and you’re good to go. So what if you have to enter in a few values. Open up two instances of SD3 if you want to copy values from one to the other.
Also, you can save effect settings as presets. That means that you can load them in the new kit.
It might be starting off as daunting to you, but it gets easier and faster in time.
jord
