Recording Superior Drummer into Sonar as indvidual audio tracks

[David Juarez]

I used to open mixer in Superior Drummer and change the Outputs; ie 1/2 out for first kick, 3/4 output second kick and so on down the line till I finished changing all the drum mics. Then I would go to Sonar and create the appropiate number of tracks for Superior Drummer. Within Sonar I would change the input on the newly created tracks to Superior Drummer S1/2 and continue with S3/4 on the next track till I finished changing all the new created tracks. I would then arm the record for the new tracks and then hit play/record and the new tracks would then be recorded as audio into Sonar. This isn’t happening anymore. Is there something that I’m missing. I keep checking online but the explaination are about EZ Drummer 3 or the ones that talk about Superior Drummer 3 are vague.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you

 

David

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.4
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Peesu]

I have also used Sonar to record SD3 to audio, but with a smaller number of individual tracks: one stereo track for the kick, one stereo track for the snare, one for (all) the toms, one for (all) the cymbals (although it might be a good idea to split the cymbal track to ride/hihat track and crash/splash track). But my method of doing this is different, so I’m not sure if this helps you.

First, I make a complete midi track of all the groove clips I’m using for the song, and do some editing (maybe adding some cymbal hits in appropriate places, deleting something that doesn’t sound good for the song, changing some hits to a different cymbal/tom/whatever).

Second, I make copies of the midi track for the kick, snare, toms and cymbals, and delete unwanted hits from every individual track: from the kick track, everything that doesn’t trigger the kick sound, and so on for the others.

Then, I create appropriate amount of audio tracks, and record every one of my midi tracks to its own audio track, one at the time. Of course, this takes some more time than recording everything all at once to different tracks through different SD3 output channels, but works for me.

Take care,

P.

 

 

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.4
Operating system: Windows 11

[drumjack52]

The reason it doesn’t work anymore (if your screenshot is right) is that you’re assigning the outputs of the Sonar tracks when you should be assigning the inputs of the Sonar tracks to SD3 outputs. What you really should do is to assign the individual tracks in SD3 to a bus and then assign the input of a Sonar to the appropriate bus output in SD3. What I do is to assign all the kick drum mics to SD3 output 1/2, snare drum mics to a bus and that bus to SD3 output 3/4, same thing for hihat, all my rack toms go to one bus in SD3 and thence on to my daw, same for floor toms, overheads, ambient, etc.

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

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[YodasDad]

Supporting what DrumJack said, I don’t use Sonar, but I included what it would be like in Pro Tools. The “output” of the plugin, SD3, must go into the “input” of a track on the DAW you are using for it to be recorded. You apparently have routed the “output” of SD3 to the ‘output” of Sonar or something. In Pro Tools, from the input, instead of picking a physical input on the audio interface, I select instead a “plug-in”, then I select SD3 and then the output channel of the mixer in SD3 for that particular track. Good luck!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.4
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

[drumjack52]

YodasDad wrote:

Supporting what DrumJack said, I don’t use Sonar, but I included what it would be like in Pro Tools. The “output” of the plugin, SD3, must go into the “input” of a track on the DAW you are using for it to be recorded. You apparently have routed the “output” of SD3 to the ‘output” of Sonar or something. In Pro Tools, from the input, instead of picking a physical input on the audio interface, I select instead a “plug-in”, then I select SD3 and then the output channel of the mixer in SD3 for that particular track. Good luck!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.4
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

I do the same thing except I use stereo tracks in PT. Wish there was a way I could send you my PT track preset that I use to setup SD3 and PT 2021.6.

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

[YodasDad]

Hi Jack,

Yeah, I just grabbed something that didn’t use buses in SD3 because I thought that’s what David was looking for and didn’t want to complicate the answer.

But I’ve begun using stereo buses in SD3 and of necessity stereo tracks in Pro Tools. You do all your panning in SD3’s mixer than, and have a completed mix when you come in. You can then still pan within the DAW and the relative positions are still maintained to a point. Here’s one such preset default mixer that I would import to a Kit from the specific SDK.

Fred

 

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.4
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

[David Juarez]

I got it going. Thanks YodasDad. That was my problem. After changing the to the inputs on Sonar I was able to record all the drum tracks individually into Sonar.

Thanks to everyone that responsed to my problem.

 

David

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