SD3 midi map is different than DAW editors?

[Brick Fist Pow]

When I play the HH in SD3 it shows that it’s mapped to A#-1. When I drag/drop the midi into Reaper’s editor it appears on D4. I can still hear the HH, it is just showing up on a different note. How can I make Reaper appear as A#-1 too? I’m a newb at midi mapping and am not sure why it’s behaving this way. Any help def appreciated.

 

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Jorg]

SD3 midi grooves are a mistery to me too…

[lewis909]

I think SD3 is a great product but I’m really surprised it doesn’t come with a GM drum map for Cubase, Logic and Reaper. It would take less than a days work and make your customers so happy!

What would it take to get this added?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.7
Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by lewis909.

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[John]

Hi lewis909,

my personal view of this is that, if you are after a host specific GM drum map, just use a generic one, since all Toontrack drum libraries are at least GM compatible.
The other Extended GM mapping, differs from library to library which means a drum map for a specific EZX does not apply to an SDX. One SDX does not have exactly the same MIDI layout as another SDX.
All drum libraries are GM compliant but beyond that, their extended MIDI layouts differ; although all Toontrack drum MIDI is made to work with all libraries, with a very few exceptions of very specialized ones.

IOW, just a drum map for Cubase, one for Reaper and one for Logic wouldn’t be just one for those three hosts, it would be… well, more than I can count right now. And of course, users of other DAWs would want drum maps (or equivalents) for their specific DAW.

User Godprobe made a spreadsheet (and Reaper drum maps) some time ago which he shared with the community:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TOWOPojiRH30S3mcz3BRYGelr6b-yIG4KeplEOwoMKg/edit?hl=en&hl=en#gid=2

Although far from all products to date are included, it shows that there is no one drum map for all, outside the GM range.

A search on the Forum may well yield some results from others users posting their own drum maps for their specific libraries and DAWs.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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