New Purchase. Missing graphics in kits

[Terry Gray]

I just purchased SD3 last night and have only downloaded the basic library. I’m currently downloading the rest of it.

I opened SD3 and noticed that the graphics are missing for the cymbals and toms on many of the kits – they’re “ghosted”. I can click on the ghosted image and hear a sound (not sure if it’s the right sound, but I hear something). I can get them to “fill in” if I select the ghosted outline, right click and select a kit piece.

However, I would think that when it SD3 comes up, all kit piece graphics would be loaded. Is it because I’m still downloading the rest of the content?

 

Thanks,

 

tg

• This post was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Terry Gray.

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[Jack 007]

It’s the same on mine …. guess normal behavior, when a right click sayz ‘none’ at the bottom.

[Mark King]

There not missing. That is the size of the Gretch  kit sampled. Not all the kits use all positions. You can fill in the other positions with whatever you want or use the same kit and tune say a Tom higher or lower to get a full kit.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

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Thanked by: Henrik Ekblom

[Henrik Ekblom]

To summarize; the “ghosted” instrument positions just means that nothing is loaded. If you click them and you hear a sound, it’s actually another instrument that makes the sound. This is because of instrument substitution – if nothing is loaded on a certain instrument, SD3 plays a similar instrument instead.

For example: if your tom 1 is empty and you click it, tom 2 will play instead. This is because when you play MIDI files with a tom fill for example, it shouldn’t just be quiet when tom 1 plays.

I hope my explanation was understandable 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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