I love SD3, but my largest complaint is slow preset load times. I did take The Drum Angle guy’s advice from his video where he recommended unlimited layer limits – and having all samples available for each instrument seems like a good idea. But yes unfortutately this makes some presets really large and slow loading, like Legacy of Rock/Oyster Ambience at 15.3GB.
I had heard people talking about how storing your drum libraries on a different drive than your OS can speed things up. So I measured how long a bunch of different presets took to load with the libraries on my OS drive, and then moved them all to a second same model SSD drive and measured again. The results are that where before my presets loaded from 9 seconds for the smallest to 29 seconds for the largest, after moving the libraries they loaded from 7 to 22 seconds. On average they loaded 22% faster, with some as much as 36% faster. That’s a big improvement!
So yes, assuming you have a fast second internal drive it is definitely better to move the libraries to it. Now if I could find another big loading time improvement to speed things up more. Anybody know any?
(Details: My laptop is Windows 11, 14th gen intel cpu, 96gb of ram, with two fast Western Digital SN850X SSD’s, and I formatted the secondary ssd with the largest NTFS allocation unit size – which is supposed to be faster for large files.)
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Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.0Operating system: Windows 11DWe six piece kit, Roland BT-1s/eDRUMin, RME Fireface interface, JH Audio IEMs w/Fiio Amp, Porter & Davies transducer, Razer 16 laptop, SD3 (State of the Art, Stockholm, Hitmaker, Legacy of Rock, Decades, Death & Darkness, Fields of Rock, Stories)
