Extra Roland pads not showing up

[SeanBee]

Hi. I am not that technical, just wanted to get that out there first. Using Roland TD20 with SD3. Prior to SD3 I was using EZdrummer. On the Roland kit I have had an extra cymbal plugged into the Aux for a long time. Of course I have the midi cable plugged into my external sound card. I am plugged in correctly. I am using the mapping for Roland in SD3. In EZDmy the extra cymbal was recognized in the graphic picture of the kit. In SD3 it is not; it is greyed out so I have to add it every time. Even more annoying, the layout of the cymbals is incorrect in the SD3 graphical interface. The crash physically located near the ride, when struck, shows as the cymbal over Rack Tom 1. There must be a way for the physical layout of the cymbals to be represented in the SD3 interface. Help please?! This is almost enough to switch out to another drum software except for the money I already spent!!
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[Henrik Ekblom]

How many instruments you will have in the kit (cymbals, toms etc) depends on the library, and whas Drums and Mixer preset you select from that library. If you load the Superior Drummer 3 core library, you’ll get 6 cymbals and 5 toms – whilst if you load the Jazz! EZX library you’ll get one crash, one ride and 3 toms. It was the same in EZdrummer 2 – it always shows the instruments that was recorded with the selected library – no matter what e-drum preset you have selected. The e-drum preset will adjust the current instruments to be playable with your e-kit – it won’t add, or remove, any instruments.

You can add as many instruments you want. If you, for example, want to have one more crash – go to “Add Instrument” and add any cymbal of choice.

If you hit one instrument, and another is played – it’s probably because the instrument you hit has nothing loaded – and will therefore be substituted with another instrument.

I hope this helps a bit on the way – if not then reply to this and we’ll try to help you further 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Mark King]

Just to add. Stick with it and read the manual and look at the videos. SD3 does all you want and more. I have a TD30 setup with two extra toms and two extra cymbals and just map them to any position I want them in. Your not restricted to where the cymbal is on your kit or the toms. You need to get under the hood more to understand. The Roland preset is just a starting point. It can’t know everything you have mapped to your aux inputs.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

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