MIDI to Audio Tempo issue during export from mixer

[Glenwing]

I was trying to export drum stems for a part I tracked in SD3 and strangely, when I imported the audio files back into my project to listen, they didn’t start in the right spot and were out of sync with everything else. Playing back the MIDI in Logic showed that the MIDI notes were all in the right spot, so something is getting messed up during export.

I played around with the bounce loop option, creating a loop for the entire track both in SD3 and in Logic, but the issue persisted.
The drums only started in bar 8, and so I added a snare hit to the downbeat of bar 1 to see what was going wrong, and in the exported file, that downbeat didn’t exist.

Any ideas as to why this might be happening?

Edit: There’s definitely something going wrong with the tempo sync, and I’m not sure what it is. I have a MIDI map with several accelerandos and rits, and everytime I import the stems, they’re out of tempo, but not always in the same way.

I imported the stems and the backing track to a new project with no MIDI map, and it looks like the drum stems completely ignored all of the tempo changes during the export. Is there a setting for this? I’ve never seen this happen before.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

• The post has been modified 3 times, last modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by Glenwing.

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[John]

Hi,

when you are running the plug-in “live” with Logic and ‘Follow host’ is enabled in SD3, it dynamically follows what the host (Logic) is sending to it.
To get a successful Export of Audio files from the internal SD3 Bounce function with Tempo changes, please make sure you:

1. have exported a MIDI file (doesn’t matter what it contains, it’s only for getting the Tempo changes) of your Project
2. import the Tempo&Time Sig from this MIDI file to the SD3 Song Track via the Track Menu.
3. when Tempo, Time Sig and drum MIDI is all on the SD3 Song Track and you are ready to Export to Audio, turn off the ‘Follow Host’ button first, otherwise SD3 will export the Audio files at the static Tempo of the current Playhead position in Logic.

I hope this helps,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[Glenwing]

Hi John,

 

This worked perfectly! Thanks so much

 

Best,

Rahul

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