DAW Bounce vs. Superior Internal Bounce (Superior Drummer 3)

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Hello, everyone –

Is a DAW bounce equivalent to a Superior Drummer internal bounce?

Revisiting this question/topic for Superior Drummer 3.  This was discussed for SD2 here:

https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/daw-bounce-vs-superior-internal-bounce/

Does the same still hold?
That is, if one bounces in the DAW (Logic in this case) instead of importing MIDI into SD3 and bouncing within SD3, will the audio results be the same?

(I am assuming here that one first sets all layer and bleed limits to maximum, so the entire sample pool is loaded into the computer’s memory).

With Superior Drummer 3, I understand one can bounce MIDI by importing the MIDI into SD3’s own MIDI panel.  I prefer the more straightforward DAW bounce (and prefer doing all the mixing in Logic as well, rather than in SD3’s mixer, which I only use to control routings and bleeds).  In Logic, this would involve:

• using the multi-out version of SD3
• routing all said multi-outputs to auxes in Logic
• creating aux tracks for each of those auxes
• name those auxes properly
• [all the previous steps are already done in my project template]
• record and edit the MIDI performance into Logic
• process and mix (some in SD3, but mostly in the DAW, via plugins and levels of the auxes)
• select the main SD3 track, with the MIDI performance
• File: Bounce: Bounce: Track in Place (⌃⌘B)

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• New Track
• Include Instrument multi-outputs, as new tracks
• Bypass effect plugins (optional; depends if one still wants flexibility in mixing/tweaking said plugins on the resulting audio tracks)
• Normalize: Off

This results in a lovely new set of audio tracks, in the same naming and order as the auxes, with the audio properly placed, and all plugins carrying over.  As far as I can tell in brief tests, the mix sounds identical, but I wonder if there is any loss in working this way.  (Clearly there might be some loss of realism if one neglected to load the full kit, with all layers etc., into memory).

Would appreciate info from the TT gurus and official word on this if possible.

Thank you for the fantastic software and sounds….

Best regards,

ZM

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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