SD3 Drum Replacement Completely Out of Time

[Donald Ryan]

Hi, I’m at my wit’s end here. I’m trying to do drum replacement on a kick drum in the newest update of SD3, and I simply need to bounce it out of Pro Tools as a wav file.

I was able to get tracker to play along with the song fine. Everything seemed ok, but right thereafter there have been nothing but major issues.

First, if I click on any tab within SD3 other than tracker, the replaced kick is completely out of time with the song.

Second, most of the time when I click on track > export song as audio file, nothing happens. It just gets stuck saying “Bouncing Audio” without actually doing anything for eternity, until I just hit Cancel.

Third, on the few times that I’ve gotten it to bounce out as a wav file or a midi file, again, it’s completely out of time when I import it back into the session.

Next to Tempo within SD3, I’ve selected “Tempo Map from Selected Song Track”, so I don’t understand why this is happening.

This is now the second time I’ve dealt with this problem (the first time I just gave up). I’m so frustrated right now, I want to smash my laptop against the wall. I’ve spent so much money on SD3 and SDX add-on libraries, and if it’s going to be even 1 percent of the hassle I’m dealing with now, I can’t even use it for the most basic drum replacement.

Please help.

Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[Donald Ryan]

Now I’ve finally gotten the kick and snare samples to export and import (finally, after HOURS of trying, and I have zero idea why it worked). But now, after multiple attempts to replace a racktom and import it, the last two tom hits are inexplicably missing. I’ve tried this process half a dozen times now, and there is no earthly reason why these hits are not showing up.

Honestly, this program is a disgrace. I’ve never dealt with anything like this in my entire life.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

To start, the tracker, and any drum replacement for that matter, is only as good as the audio that you are feeding it. I don’t see any indication of the type of audio and the quality that you are using.

As far as time and hits, did you set the tempo markers for each bar as well as the threshold for each instrument?

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Donald Ryan]

Nope. I realized it’s actually not missing the tom hits at the end. The tempos are just yet again all messed up and it’s playing completely out of sync with the song. I’ve not only set it up to follow the host tempo, but have even tried imported the midi map for this song. No matter what I do, nothing works. Same problem, over and over again.

What an absolute nightmare.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Again, are you setting the tempo markers within the Tracker? Tempo issues will result from not ensuring that your downbeats are aligned.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Donald Ryan]

Hi Jordan, I didn’t see your last comment. I didn’t manually set the tempos in tracker. I set SD3 to follow the host audio, and also imported the tempo map as a midi file on some passes of trying to get SD3 to work. And I can see the tempos changing as they are supposed to within tracker.

It’s only after I bounce out the audio and re-import it that I can see it’s not synced up.

The fact that it works some of the time and not other times seems to indicate that there’s something wrong with SD3. I can’t make heads or tails of this.

[Scott]

After import of the tempo map, make sure you deactivate Follow Host in the S3 Transport or it will bounce only at the current cursor location from your DAW.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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Thanked by: Bear-Faced Cow

[Bear-Faced Cow]

What Scott said… don’t use follow host when exporting using either the tempo map or setting the tempo markers. Follow host in this case would be useful for real time bouncing into your DAW.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

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