Moving Curser along play line in SD3

[notstewart]

When building a drum track I have to keep closing SD3 and move the cursor along the play line in Samplitude. I can move the cursor in SD3 midi editor, but when I play back it keeps going back to where ever the curser was last placed in the sequencer. This worked fine in SD 2, what step am I missing in SD3?

thanks for any help,

Paul

Operating system: Windows 10

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

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[notstewart]

I’m still having this problem. I can move the cursor along the grid editor in SD3, but when I hit play it goes back to whatever the cursor position is in Samplitude. Changing the position in SD3 doesn’t change the position in Samplitude. Anybody have any ideas what I’m missing?

thanks,

Paul

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

• This post was modified 4 years ago by notstewart.

[Scott]

That sounds like how it’s supposed to work. Cursor position follows DAW when Follow Host is active. Can’t see how the behavior was different in S2 because S2 never had a Song Track. It was only added in S3/EZD2.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[notstewart]

Hi Scott, thanks for replying!
Yes you’re right, SD2 midi editing was done right on a Samplitude track, sorry about that.
I hope SD3 is not suppose to work like that because it’s slows everything down. I’m constantly closing SD3, moving the curser in Samplitude, opening SD3 and hoping it’s close to where I want it to be in the grid editor.
When I watch tutorials on YouTube,they’re not moving back and forth from SD3 to their sequencer. They are just moving it right in SD3 and playing from there. I tried turning “follow host” on and off and it didn’t solve the problem.

thanks again,

Paul

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

• This post was modified 4 years ago by notstewart.

[Scott]

notstewart wrote:

Hi Scott, thanks for replying!
Yes you’re right, SD2 midi editing was done right on a Samplitude track, sorry about that.
I hope SD3 is not suppose to work like that because it’s slows everything down. I’m constantly closing SD3, moving the curser in Samplitude, opening SD3 and hoping it’s close to where I want it to be in the grid editor.
When I watch tutorials on YouTube,they’re not moving back and forth from SD3 to their sequencer. They are just moving it right in SD3 and playing from there. I tried turning “follow host” on and off and it didn’t solve the problem.

thanks again,

Paul

• This post was modified 4 years ago by notstewart.

Do you have a link of the video you are referring to? Do they have S3 on one monitor and the DAW on another and are clicking between the 2 to bring each “to focus”.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[notstewart]

It was a few days back, so I don’t know which one exactly. It’s possible they had 2 monitors, but it looked like they were changing position “right in SD3” and playing from there. I’ll check some more tutorials, but are you saying it’s not possible to change the cursor location in SD3 and play from there?

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

[notstewart]

This video around 6:18 he changes the cursor position and plays from new position right in SD3:

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

[notstewart]

In this Toontrack tutorial around 1:24 he also moves the cursor in SD3 and plays from there. That is what I’m trying to achieve and can’t figure it out:

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

• This post was modified 4 years ago by notstewart.

[Scott]

It looks like he’s not initiating playback of the DAW from the play button in S3. Just the S3 Song Track.

If you have “Enable keyboard shortcuts in DAW” in S3 Settings-Keyboard Shortcuts, you can hit Shift+Spacebar to just play the S3 Song Track. Or click the play button on the Song Track Transport. But, like I say, it won’t control the DAW playback at all.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Scott]

notstewart wrote:

In this Toontrack tutorial around 1:24 he also moves the cursor in SD3 and plays from there. That is what I’m trying to achieve and can’t figure it out:

• This post was modified 4 years ago by notstewart.

That looks like the S3 Standalone and hitting the Spacebar in Standalone will play the Song Track.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[notstewart]

I never use standalone, so I don’t know anything about it.

Default keyboard spacebar in Samplitude is play, I’ll try to setup keyboard shift/spacebar shortcut for SD3 play.

Thanks for your help!!

Samplitude Pro X3 Suite, SD 3, Tascam UH7000

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