No cybal chokes in Metal Foundry

[Arvesen]

I’m triggering Superior Drummer 3 using my Alesis DM 10 II Pro e-kit, which works perfectly for both the core library and a bunch of SDX expansions. Using the Metal Foundry expansion, however, I can’t get cymbal chokes to work at all. I can see the MIDI aftertouch, but nothing’s happening. I’ve even tried using mappings I’ve created that work with other expansions.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.4
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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[José Sanguino]

I own Metal Foundry. If on the “Drums” tab (Drum kit view), click and select one of the cymbals. Then, find the “All articulations” button and open it. You’ll see that for any splash or crash cymbal selected. there is a “Crash” articulation and a “Mute hit” articulation. You can click on both of them and check that the second one is a choked hit. There is also a third articulation, “Mute Tail”, which is “Not MIDI-Mapped”, but if you click on it right after clicking on the “Crash” articulation, it chokes the cymbal. I suppose it should work with the aftertouch. My advice is for you to contact Toontrack Tech Support on this issue. They’ll tell you what’s wrong with the choking of cymbals in The Metal Foundry SDX. If channel aftertouch works for you both in the main library and other SDX expansions, there has to be a reason as to why it doesn’t work in The Metal Foundry. Anyway, I think you should try this first: Go to the right panel view in SD3. Click the “Default Box View” button and choose “MIDI” from the drop-down list. You’ll see then among the choices displayed a “Choke/Mute Trigger” button with a down-pointing arrow on the right side of it. Click there. You’ll see two choices there for the tail mute: “Note Off”, and “Aftertouch”. Make sure you highlight “Aftertouch”. Then save your kit preset (with the same or a different name) and try playing again using the MIDI aftertouch triggers to choke the cymbals. Maybe that’s what’s wrong. Probably they forgot to activate the “Aftertouch” setting for “Choke/Mute Trigger” in The Metal Foundry library default presets.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.4
Operating system: Windows 10

[José Sanguino]

Well. I’ve just turned on my computer and checked it myself: I was right. That was the problem. The cymbals in The Metal Foundry SDX DO NOT HAVE the aftertouch choke activated by default. You have to follow the procedure I have just described in my reply above, for each of the cymbals in your kit preset: select one, go to the “Default box view” button on the right and in the drop-down menu, select “MIDI”. Search on the right for the last option “Choke/Mute Trigger” and highlight the “Aftertouch” button. If you need to set other cymbals, just click one after another on the Drum Kit View and, again, on the “Choke/Mute Trigger” on the right, highlight the “Aftertouch” button. Take into account that if you leave any cymbals without the highlighted box, that particular cymbal will not be affected by Channel aftertouch messages, therefore, it will play until the end of its sample length. Save your preset kit now as an user preset (just click on the preset name, choose “Save as…” and type the name you wish to use (I just kept the same name and added “(w. Cymbal Chokes)” at the end. You’ll find it on your User Preset list when choosing The Metal Foundry SDX presets.

Have a good drumming!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.4
Operating system: Windows 10

[Arvesen]

Thank you so much – this was exactly what I couldn’t figure out 😀

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