Problems importing BFD3 Grooves

[magwa101]

1. Importing “BFD3 Core Library/Grooves/Jacques Mathias” into SD3 using “Linked Folders” does not work.

2. I click “Grooves”, I link directory under “User MIDI” and it only show an empty folder in SD3 groove browser.

3. I tried copying BFD3 “Grooves” folder to the installed /Library/Application Support/EZ Drummer/Midi. After doing this I do see the folder in the Grooves folder browser but it still says the folder is empty. I tried setting the Midi In mapping to BFD3 (all options of BFD) and still it could not recognize the midi loops.

Seems like a very basic issue.

Latest everything as of 8/6/18.

OSX: 10.13.6
SD3: 3.1.2 build 20164
BFD3: 3.2.3

Windows 11
Reaper
SD3

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[Brad]

I don’t use BFD3 however did a quick look at the BFD3 operations manual on line and under Groove Editor > Saving and Exporting Grooves, I found the following; “Grooves are stored in BFD3’s own format – they are not MIDI files. To create MIDI files from Grooves, it is necessary to use the Export features.”
So my guess is that SD3 probably doesn’t recognize BFD’s format. This is my guess anyway.

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[tommyhayes31]

Did you figure this out? I’m having the same issue. I have a ton of midi folders I want to load in to superior drummer. The main folder name of each one is showing up, but when I click on them I just get “empty folder” even though there’s midi within the folder. Weird.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Bear-Faced Cow]

BFD3 groove palettes are not MIDI. The only way to get them into SD3 is to drag the grooves from BFD into SD3, or export a track from BFD and load it into SD3. Either way, they would be saved as user grooves. As to whether they would be searchable, one of the Toontrack officials would have to weigh in. You would also need to make sure that you are using a standard BFD3 key map, so that SD3 will recognize it via MIDI/eDrum settings.

jord

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