Drum Groove MIDI Region Names in DAW Host

[George Bellas]

When dragging a groove from the Superior 3 Grooves section...

When dragging a groove from the Superior 3 Grooves section into Logic Pro X the name of each region is “MIDI Region”. In Superior 2 the name of the region was the identical to the name of the groove within Superior 2.

ISSUE: It is impossible to keep track of what ‘Grooves’ have been inserted into the host when all the regions are named “MIDI Region”. This is of utmost importance when looking for fills/grooves that have not already been used.

SOLUTION: Have the name of the inserted region reflect the name of the SD3 Groove.

Attached is a screenshot showing how the same grooves are named using SD3 vs SD2. Notice that all regions from SD3 are named “MIDI Region”.

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SYSTEM SPECS
Mac Pro 3.2 GHz 8 Core - Mac OS X 10.11.6 - Logic Pro X 10.3.2 - Superior Drummer 3.1.7

When dragging a groove from the Superior 3 Grooves section into Logic Pro X the name of each region is “MIDI Region”. In Superior 2 the name of the region was the identical to the name of the groove within Superior 2.

ISSUE: It is impossible to keep track of what ‘Grooves’ have been inserted into the host when all the regions are named “MIDI Region”. This is of utmost importance when looking for fills/grooves that have not already been used.

SOLUTION: Have the name of the inserted region reflect the name of the SD3 Groove.

Attached is a screenshot showing how the same grooves are named using SD3 vs SD2. Notice that all regions from SD3 are named “MIDI Region”.

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SYSTEM SPECS
Mac Pro 3.2 GHz 8 Core - Mac OS X 10.11.6 - Logic Pro X 10.3.2 - Superior Drummer 3.1.7

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The naming is kept when you drag directly from the Grooves tab to you DAW. If you drag from the SD3 song track, or any other place, the naming will be more generic.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Dave_27]

I drag right from the groove tab in SD3 onto a SD3 channel/track in cubase and it always comes up as generic. No clue why this is happening

[John]

+1 on providing us with a user-friendly method (with documentation) on locating which Toontrack MIDI segments were used in a DAW project. I find myself having to stop and make cryptic notes when composing, and when I pull up older projects it can be maddening to figure out which library location a clip came from. I have no suggested solution, but the problem is obvious.

[Henrik Ekblom]

@John Baker said:
+1 on providing us with a user-friendly method (with documentation) on locating which Toontrack MIDI segments were used in a DAW project. I find myself having to stop and make cryptic notes when composing, and when I pull up older projects it can be maddening to figure out which library location a clip came from. I have no suggested solution, but the problem is obvious.  

What version of Superior Drummer 3 are you using? What DAW?

If you are using version 3.0.3 or newer, and dragging a file from Grooves, the name of the MIDI file should be the path for the file, for example “EZdrummer 2/Uptempo/Straight 4/4/Verse/Verse 01” so you can trace back the file…

We have a small bug in 3.1.0, that names the file after the path, but excludes the library folder (“EZdrummer 2” in the above example). This will be fixed for the next release.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[wayne kramer]

These posts are from 2017. Has there been any change since then regarding holding on to filenames after dragging into the DAW in SD3?

 

Thanks Wayne

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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