Cymbals being clasped

[kinglouis]

Hi all,

 

Apologies if this topic has been covered many times!

I am struggling to convince SD3 to consistently trigger a plain old cymbal crash – it seems to clasp or choke the cymbal. Not every time. It seems once it chokes it once in a specific place, it will choke all cymbals in that exact position. Is there an obvious fix to this? I have tried using different cymbals, varying the velocity, it has no effect.

 

Many thanks,

 

Alex

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.2
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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[José Sanguino]

If you’re recording your beats using a keyboard controller, it is probably sending some channel aftertouch MIDI messagges if you press the note keys too hard. I think channel aftertouch messages choke cymbals. You should either delete them or filter them out so that they aren’t recorded. I don’t know which DAW you’re using, but there must be a way to do it. In Cockos Reaper, for instance, there’s a plug-in which allows you to prevent specific MIDI CC messages from being recorded (channel aftertouch among them). If you can’t filter them out, delete them: you can either open a MIDI event list for that track, select all of the channel aftertouch messages and delete them. Or open a CC lane for MIDI channel aftertouch in the piano roll view, check if there are events present, select and delete them.
P.S. If your keyboard controller has some square drum pads, use those instead. They do not normally send channel aftertouch messages.

• This post was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by José Sanguino.

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[kinglouis]

Thanks José, I hadn’t considered aftertouch, that makes sense. And I just bought a keyboard with pads so will use them 100% for cymbals. Thank you very much, Alex

[José Sanguino]

Watch out! Channel aftertouch messages affect ALL drum notes. If you use regular keys for kick, snare, toms, etc… you’ll be generating channel aftertouch messages, too. And those will probably affect your cymbals, no matter if you record them independently using your pads. Either record everything with your pads, or try finding a way of filtering out channel aftertouch messages in your DAW. There must be a different way in every DAW. If you can’t find how to filter them… remember my other piece of advice: record your beat and after that delete manually all of the channel aftertouch MIDI events.

[Chris White]

How do i delete them all in reaper? I can’t find any information on this at all.

Operating system: Windows 11

[Chris White]

Hey jose, do you know specifically how to delete them in reaper? i am having trouble figuring it out. Thanks

Operating system: Windows 11

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