Create an X-Room!!!????

[myron]

I bet someone has mentioned this concept before, but here it is again:

Would it be possible to open an empty “room” where you could build or add x-drum pieces, to customize your kit?

(ex. when my sample hard drive is unplugged, and S.2 can’t find the sample files, the room is empty, except for a kick drum).

I have just begun to learn the power behing the x-drum feature! This seem like it would be a cool feature to add.

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[redlogic]

Not quite the same thing, but you can use X-drums to add the Ambience of one kit to another kit.

For example: Avatar kit, but using ambience from Allaire kit.

See “EXAMPLE #1 – adding ambience from different studio” from about 4:13 in the Superior Drummer 2.2 Introduction video.

Go to https://www.toontrack.com/index.asp, click on Toontrack TV, click on the Tutorials tab, and scroll down to the Superior Drummer 2.2 Introduction video.

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[Nathan]

I would presume here, that you would get (eg) snare1 from Avatar with the ambience recording of snare2 from Allaire? -seeming as snare1 wasn’t recorded in the other room. I hope that makes sense…

I must admit I hadn’t thought of this as a creative possibility with SD

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[Tom]

I wish there were some way you could set up a kit from different libraries, not as x-drums, but in the usual kit positions. That, of course, would not be possible with ambience from the same room. So what? Let me have different ambiences or add an artificial one with a reverb plugin. People put all sorts of reverb on different kit pieces anyway.

[Nathan]

You can drag an instrument to anywhere on the construct screen, but it is unconnected with how it sounds, it’s stereo panning or the way that it interacts with the mxer or mics. You can add an instrument so that it is completely dry, no bleed into overheads, ambients or other mics -bring it out to its own channel in your DAW and you can add your reverb.

Are you objecting to the x-drum process? It does seem a little involved at first, but when you realise what it’s marrying together it isn’t a bad user interface for the control and flexibility available. The construct screen (for me) is really only a pretty picture to remind you what you’re using and to impress your clients.

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[Tom]

I know I can drag an x-drum anywhere. But I would much prefer x-drum as an option at the bottom of dropdown menu for each kit part in the GUI. From there you should be able to choose any other instrument you own, and it would automatically get the right midi notes associated. Ambience will then be a problem, but it could either be muted or even better: use another menu to choose the instrument delivering the ambience.

I don’t like x-drums scattered all over the GUI. I like a good looking GUI, and it with be even better, if there were photos of the actual drums.

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