BlackAppsI am brand new to Superior Drummer 3 and I play my Roland TD50 through it. One thing I’d like to do is recreate my TD50 kit configuration there so that it shows up in the Drum panel in SD3. Basically, I want to open SD3 and see a visual representation of my TD50KV kit in the Drum panel, including the two extra Roland pads and 3 extra Roland cymbals I have. This way, when I am assigning sounds or making changes for a portion of the kit within SD3, I see a matching visual reference to the actual kit that I play on. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.
drumjack52Depends on exactly what you’re looking for. You could add extra instruments but they would only show up in the upper left hand corner (and downwards for each extra instrument you add). There’s no way to move those kitpieces towards the middle of the gui arranged around the existing kit. Another way is to find a kit that duplicates the configuration you have in your ekit. You can’t delete pieces that are already there.
An example of the first method: I mainly use the Death & Darkness expansion and need 4 rack toms for what I do. The kits int hat expansion only have 3 rack toms so I add the 4th tom via the ‘add instrument’ way and that tom sits in the upper left part of the main gui. That can’t be moved to where it would fit in the kit.
A more important issue is I don’t know if the MIDI preset in SD3 for your ekit takes into account extra pads & cymbals.
Jack
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Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
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Mark KingSimple answer no as these are specific kits which are not your configuration. Does it matter though as you can add drums and the sound will be fine so it’s only a visual thing.
However there are many large kit setups which may fit your needs so you could load one of those. You can then swap out any of drums/cymbals to a sound from any library you have. You may have to do a bit of work in the mixer section though. I mix and match libraries like this.
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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Thanked by: BlackAppsBlackAppsThanks. I was looking for a way to customize the kit I see in SD3 to look just like my TD-50. Sounds like I just have to find a kit to start with and add more cymbals and drums to it (that will then appear on the side, not in the kit itself). I’m disappointed that SD3 can’t do that but you saved me a ton of time trying to figure out if it was possible.
BlackAppsI really appreciate the help. It lets me focus my attention on what can actually be done in SD3.
KenI really appreciate the help. It lets me focus my attention on what can actually be done in SD3.
Hi there, personally, I would like SD3 to be able to do the panning based upon the visual representation of where the drum is placed on the picture that you see. However, I do realize that’s a lot of programming.
The biggest challenge that I found was getting the midi signal to be correct i.e. a hard physical hit equals 128 and a soft hit equals 15-20. SD3 did an excellent job at recording these audio differences in their kits, which is why the libraries are so large.
basically load up a kit and without touching anything in ST3, start banging on your pads and adjust the Output of each drum pad. The presets for Roland Alisas and Yamaha are great in setting up the meeting note numbers, but I found that they like in the velocity settings. And that, of course, depends on the hardware, not the software.
Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11 Pro DAW
expansions : N.Y.Avitar | Latin percussion
Yamaha multi 12 | DTX 450k | Trigger IO (x2)
Super stupid fast computer with i9 and 18 speed double clutch gearbox
5. Audio interfaces.
drumjack52I really appreciate the help. It lets me focus my attention on what can actually be done in SD3.
No problem. Thinking about it I don’t know if there’s a drum vi that can do such a thing like discussed here.
Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
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
drumjack52I really appreciate the help. It lets me focus my attention on what can actually be done in SD3.
Hi there, personally, I would like SD3 to be able to do the panning based upon the visual representation of where the drum is placed on the picture that you see. However, I do realize that’s a lot of programming.
The biggest challenge that I found was getting the midi signal to be correct i.e. a hard physical hit equals 128 and a soft hit equals 15-20. SD3 did an excellent job at recording these audio differences in their kits, which is why the libraries are so large.
basically load up a kit and without touching anything in ST3, start banging on your pads and adjust the Output of each drum pad. The presets for Roland Alisas and Yamaha are great in setting up the meeting note numbers, but I found that they like in the velocity settings. And that, of course, depends on the hardware, not the software.Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.5
Operating system: Windows 10
Isn’t there a setting that changes the panning from audience to drummer perspective or the other way around?
Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
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
KenHi Jack,
Yes, of course there is.
Personally, I find the sliders a little bit small when it comes to using the mouse to adjust them. That’s why a visual method of placing it in the sound field by dragging the pads around the space makes better sense to me.
Again, that is a lot of programming.
In a perfect world I would even have the overheads show up on the main picture and be able to drag them around. As I have mentioned before in previous posts, my ex, who is a code cruncher would probably just hit me with a brick and use foul language.
Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11 Pro DAW
expansions : N.Y.Avitar | Latin percussion
Yamaha multi 12 | DTX 450k | Trigger IO (x2)
Super stupid fast computer with i9 and 18 speed double clutch gearbox
5. Audio interfaces.
KenWhen I do a production, I am the drummer, so I hear it from the drummers perspective in my headphones and of course, whatever audio is coming out of the daw. But when you go to present that entire collection of tracks you now have to be the audience, and that puts you on the other side of the drums, and there is a checkbox up in the left-hand corner that allows you to do that so when I do my final stems from my daw, that is the setting that is used.
Cheers
K
Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11 Pro DAW
expansions : N.Y.Avitar | Latin percussion
Yamaha multi 12 | DTX 450k | Trigger IO (x2)
Super stupid fast computer with i9 and 18 speed double clutch gearbox
5. Audio interfaces.
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