My drummer uses a Roland TD3 and the module is a bit, “meh”. We’re looking into using Superior Drummer 2 as the sound module. We’ll take the TD3 and run the MIDI into my laptop then run Superior Drummer 2 Solo on it and ouput via my Line 6 Gearbox DI G. That’ll give us a stereo out with ASIO drivers and a portable setup.
My question is, Can you change patches via MIDI or some programmable method? I asked this of Addictive Drums and the answer was regrettably no.
What we’d like to do is for example, change the drums from a Lo-fi sound to a full kit and then to a kit with lots of ambience with the tap of a footswitch, drum pad, or some other MIDI device. Roland’s nice modules can do this with “chains” and such but we don’t have $6K.
I don’t care about switching Drum Samples themselves though I hear Superior Drummer loads samples pretty fast. We’ll keep the same drums. We just want to swap the EQ/comp and mixer presets on the fly for what I think would be a nearly instantaneous change.
In recording, we can automate the controls individually I’m sure. But assigning a patch or preset would be a easy way to change on the fly with a single click or command during a live performance.
