Easy. You have a large number of Mics (up to 22), User Mics (up to 8), Buses (Up to 16) and Outputs (Up to 16). You have a section called “Show Channels” at the top center of your SD3 Interface within the “Mixer” tab. You’ll notice at a glance how many of those are in use (for instance: “Mics: 8 out of 22”). Each button shows you to the Mics, User Mics, Buses and Outputs channels and leads you to them by pressing them – As a clue, the single mic channels are blue at the top. The user mic channels are grey. The bus channels are yellow, and the output channels are red. BUT there is another button which reads “Edit Visibility – Show All Channels”. By pressing there, You’ll be shown all the Mics, User Mics, Buses and Output channels. Those which have the “HIDE” button marked in blue at the top are UNUSED in your preset. You just have to toggle the “Hide” button for the channels (either single mics, buses, etc) you wish to see as available in your mixer. Then you can press again in the “Edit Visibility” button and those channels which are still marked as “hide” will not be shown anymore.
So, you’ll have a few new mic channels, buses, etc available which you have “unhidden”, so to speak. Now it’s up to you what to do with each of them. Hidden single mics are assigned to different mics which were actually used when recording the samples for the kit, but had not been chosen to be heard, so you have not much choice there but to use the one you have toggled on – choose wisely and edit the “channel properties” so that the close mic used for the channel is right. As for “User Mics”, I think those are destined to be used as virtual mics for single shot samples you may want to add and be treated as a single instrument mic. As for buses, you can, for instance, rename your newly shown bus as, say, “snare comp”, and create a send from the single mic snare channels and set the level for each send to taste. Then, click on the “Effects”area for your new bus and add a Dynamics effects (one of the available compressors, for instance).
You can also, for instance, group single mics outputs into a bus. For instance, you might have three single mic channels for your kick drum: Kick in, Kick out and Kick sub. You can create a “Kick” bus and set the OUTPUT (bottom of your tracks) of those single mic channels to the “Kick” bus, so that it acts as a “Kick sub mixer”. – So, you just have to toggle the hidden mic channels, bus channels, output channels, etc by finding them within the “Edit Visibility – Show All Channels” option and then edit those to your taste.
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7 Operating system: Windows 10
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Thanked by: Jean-Marc Boulier and ChadwickDunderc0ck
I believe the channels are already there at your disposal, just “hidden away” in the Mixer-tab, since they are not in use.
Click “Edit Visibility” button and there you can for example “unhide” all channels.
But I would just “unhide” the channels I’m going to use and “hide” the all the others.
If you’re starting with the “default preset” I think most of them are probably not in use. But I dont think you will run out of channels, like “Instrument” channels and “Bus” channels.
I guess the number of channels also depend on if you choose stereo-out or multi-out to your DAW?
/Regards from Robin Gardner
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7 Operating system: Windows 10
The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Robin Gardner.
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