Presets Not Loading In At All

[LukeDjents]

Hi,

For a while now, I’ve had issues with extremely long loading times on my presets in SD3 and I’m not sure why. I had no issues with loading times at all for over a year but recently it just randomly started taking forever to load for no reason at all. It’s gotten to the point where some days it will load at a fairly reasonable time, but then other days it won’t load at all (I’ll leave it up for hours and it’ll still only be like halfway through loading at best), then the next day it’ll go back to loading fine again, etc. I’m not sure what it is that is causing this and it’s been very irritating for me because everything seems to be happening so randomly for no reason. If I had to guess it may be because I have it installed on a hard drive rather than an SSD, but like I said it was loading fine on the hard drive for over a year until this problem randomly started happening. Anyways, I would very greatly appreciate any help on this so that I can get back to actually using this again.

Thanks,

Luke

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Mac McCormick]

While I have had random variations in loading SD3 kits, it’s never been anything like hours. Sometimes a kit will take maybe 5 minutes to load instead of the usual 1 ort 2.

So yes, I have seen some variance in load times with identical kits but not as drastic as yours.

I would invest in an SSD (or two) if you have the time and/or the cash to do so. They can make a huge difference in the perceived speed of you entire machine.

-mike

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3 & EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL and Spitfire Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[LukeDjents]

Yeah, I was already thinking about purchasing a new SSD because of this problem, just didn’t know if I should or not since it was working fine on the hard drive before. Thank you for the response, hopefully that will help me with solving this issue.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

[Mark King]

You could try reinstalling sd3 (not the sounds just the plugin) and see if that helps in case something has got corrupted. I doubt that is the problem though. It is more likely to be a problem with the drive you have the samples on. If certain sectors are bad then you may have to download the library again onto a new drive. I use m.2 drives now and kits load in a couple of seconds.

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

• This post was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Mark King.

[Mac McCormick]

Hey Mark,

Are you using a PCI card t0 mount you M.2 drives or do you have multiple M.2 slots 0n your motherboard?

Thanks!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3 & EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL and Spitfire Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[drumjack52]

The first thing I would do before spending any money is to defrag that hard drive. Are those samples on the system drive or a separate drive? Separate drive is always better. If you’re still having issues run some kind of testing s/w on the drive as it might be failing. How is the drive connected to the computer?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.1
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I’m of the suspicion that your hard drive might be encountering bad sectors and is starting to degrade. I’ve encountered this on a few mechanical drives. Some manufacturers are more prevalent to this type of degradation. You might want to move all your files off to a new drive.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Mark King]

I have two slots on my m/b

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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