DAW controls on keyboard not recognised and a question about Drum Kit Designer

[beebeeveevee]

Hi everyone.

I’m really enjoying learning more about SD3. It’s such a great piece of work, thank you Toontrack.

I’m still a student of DAWs and music technology so please bear with me if these are obvious questions.

1. I have a Komplete M32 keyboard. The keys themselves work fine for inputting MIDI data into SD3, but the DAW controls don’t work properly (by DAW controls, I mean the “PLAY” “REC” “LOOP” buttons above the keys themselves). I’ve tried using MIDI learn, but the buttons aren’t recognised. There does seem to be some connection there, because when I press METRO the metronome starts clicking (regardless of whether anything is actually playing in SD3 or not) and when I press REC the track seems to play. But I’d like to be able to assign the DAW controls to functions within SD3. Please can you help?
2. I suspect the answer to this is no, but is there a way of integrating SD3 with Drum Kit Designer in Logic (i.e. to access the samples of SD3 within the DKD plugin). It might not be practical, given the granularity of control within SD3, but I like experimenting and I’m just curious.

 

Oh, when we will get a Big Sur icon, too? 🙂

Thanks

 

Bee

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.4
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

LUNA / Logic Pro (latest versions)
iMac 2019 (3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9) w/ 32GB RAM
UAD Apollo Twin X
Roland TD-17 KVX
Superior Drummer 3 (latest version)

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[Billy 86]

Switch modes from Plugin (MIDI) to Track mode to control the DAW functions. I believe it’s one or the other at a time, but not both.  How this works depends on how integrated the Komplete keyboard is with your DAW. Mode buttons are in the top right corner of the keyboard. Lots of YouTube primers on this.

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

The transport controls in SD3 don’t respond to midi commands; only key commands. The only way that I can see you being able to control SD3 with the buttons on the M32 is by being able to map the transport controls to a midi cc and subsequently using a utility like midi2key. Either that, or just use SD3 within Logic and control it from there.

as far as using SD3 with drum kit designer, if you are implying substituting SD3 for logic drummer, all you really need to do is instantiate a drummer track and use SD3 as the plug-in. There is a map in SD34 drum kit designer. In drummers edit window settings, make sure to check and set the setting to keep the drum kit when changing drummers in the drop down.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[beebeeveevee]

Thank you Jord, that is really helpful.

It wasn’t that I wanted to use it with Logic’s Drummer, but with Logic’s Drum Machine Designer – that’s my fault for getting the two plug-ins mixed up.

I think that what I am really asking is whether there’s an easy way of mapping SD3 to Logic’s Step Sequencer. It doesn’t seem to be possible to rename the key names. My goal is to have the drum grid tools that are in Logic’s Drum Machine designer, but with fully labelled SD3 samples!

 

Billy86 – I’m afraid it was already set to that – I think the issue is like Jord said – that the key commands in SD3 don’t respond to MIDI commands. If I use the M32 controls within Logic, they control Logic as a whole, rather than the controls within SD3. Thank you, though – appreciate your suggestion.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.4
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

LUNA / Logic Pro (latest versions)
iMac 2019 (3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9) w/ 32GB RAM
UAD Apollo Twin X
Roland TD-17 KVX
Superior Drummer 3 (latest version)

[Bear-Faced Cow]

At the moment, it is not possible to rename the rows in the pattern sequencer. Technically you could use SD3 with DMD as it is really nothing more than a visual representation of a track stack. However, it would get messy as far as managing SD3 as DMD was mainly designed for one shot type samples and sounds. Even if you change the row to melodic, there’s no real point as you may as well leave SD3 in a track. If you wanted something with configurable rows, you are better off using the hidden Step Editor (formerly known as HyperEditor) as you can rename those rows and get something a little more organic as far as SD3 goes. Step Sequencer would be rather robotic in nature, despite its random abilities, but if that’s what you’re looking for, then it would work in a pinch.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[beebeeveevee]

Thanks Jord. That’s exactly what I was looking for!

LUNA / Logic Pro (latest versions)
iMac 2019 (3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9) w/ 32GB RAM
UAD Apollo Twin X
Roland TD-17 KVX
Superior Drummer 3 (latest version)

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