Losing my superior drummer sound when I drag midi into Logic Pro X

[Docta Brown]

I’m sure I’m not doing something simple but When I compose drums in superior drummer then try to drag the midi into Logic Pro X I’m losing the Superior Drummer Drum Tones. I have a software instrument track with superior drummer 3 as the instrument, and even when I try using the midi controller in logic I only get  Logic drum sound. Please help

Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

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[John]

Hi,

 

you must have a Drummer track or similar in your Logic Project and when you drag the MIDI from the SD3 plugin, you do not drag to the Software Instrument Track SD3 is on. Alternatively, you have some routing set up in your Environment but unless you have some template to start from, I doubt this.

If you want to, I can have a look at your Project and see if I can detect what’s causing the trouble?

If so, please ZIP compress only the actual Logic (.logicx) Project file, not Audio files or folders, and attach to a post here.

 

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Brooks H]

Also make sure you’ve selected “Follow Host” at the bottom-left of SD3.

SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1

[Glenn Burgos]

I believe I have the same issue. It’s similar at least. I used to be able to use the stand alone Superior Drummer 3 to preview drum loops and drag them onto a software instrument track in Logic that had a Superior Drummer 3 plugin on it, and it would play just fine. The other day I tried to do that and the playback in Logic was skipping a lot of midi notes for certain drums and dropping others entirely. The loops played fine in preview. As of now my only work-around is to program the drum parts entirely in the SD3 plugin (if I want to keep the option to edit it later). What I don’t like about that is that you can’t see the midi event on the Logic track, so I can’t use it as a reference as to where I’m at in a song. I don’t remember which versions of Logic X and SD3 I was last able to do this, but if there’s a way for me to restore this functionality, I’d love to learn how.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS Sierra (10.12)

[Bear-Faced Cow]

You might want to check your CoreAudio buffer settings. It’s possible they’re too low.

As far as not being able to see the reference in Logic as to where you are, you can always drag the SD3 MIDI track onto Logic’s instrument track, or a plain MIDI track, and mute the region.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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