SD3 Midi Regions “Greyed Out” when re-booting project in Protools

[David]

Hi,

I’ve recently started seeing that when re-booting project, my SD3 midi (on stereo instrument track in Protools) is greyed out? No playback heard. Never had this problem before. Have always just opened up new session, clicked on “Track” on tool bar and added stereo instrument track, inserted Superior drummer, and away I went. Any ideas as to why this may now be happening all of a sudden?

Many Thanks for any help that may come this way

Dave Reed

Reedy Boy

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I think we have answered this question before. Check that the Superior Drummer 3 instance in Pro Tools is enabled, and not mute etc.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Scott Eshleman]

https://www.toontrack.com/forum/superior-drummer-3-help/midi-file-problems-in-pro-tools-12-with-sd3/

[David]

Guys,

A thousand thanks for getting back to me.
Henrik, I have never had an issue with this before (right through from DfH to all versions of SD2). My workflow in Protools is pretty much always the same, i.e. add stereo instrument track then from inserts select “multichannel instruments”, followed by superior drummer. Then simply select the grooves, paste into protools and have always been ‘good to go’.
I’ve had to use the suggestion on selecting “Instrument” from the “Edit window view” and selecting a midi channel for SD3 to work on. This does indeed resolve the greyed out issue for the time I’m working on the song, but if I save and close the session and log back in, I’m back to square one? I get the impression that the thread that Scott E posted hasn’t really answered why this is happening?
I would never get into arguing about which software is at fault because both Protools and SD3 are incredible tools, but clearly there is an issue here and as a really big fan of the product would love to see a proper resolution.

Big thanks for your help thus far

Dave

Reedy Boy

[David]

Ok this is strange…………………….

I have just been playing around with my Protools/ SD3 as the forums out there seem to be saying to open the instrument view and select SD3 ensuring it is assigned to a midi channel. This does turn the greyed out midi to blue and does allow normal usage. However, as I have stated, when I saved and closed the session down and re-opened I was back to the greyed out midi and had to go through and re-set to get playback to work.
I have just tried something out of desperation which seems to have worked (for me at the on the last few tries!).
I opened the session in question, in the instrument view, set SD311 to midi channel 1, created a new MIDI track (not stereo instrument track), which automatically showed “All” as the input and SD312 as the output,(which was automatically routed to midi channel 2) then I dragged the clips from the stereo instrument track to the midi track and hit playback which played the groove I had selected from SD3 perfectly. I then re-dragged the clips back to the stereo instrument track and hit playback again, same result, played the groove back perfectly.
Now check this out!!!??? I then deleted the midi track I had created, saved and closed the session, re-opened it and “lo & behold” the midi in the stereo instrument track was no longer greyed out and played back perfectly.
I have absolutely no idea how this seems to have resolved my problem, but it has, and I just thought I’d share it to hopefully help anyone else who has the same issue.

Reedy Boy

[Brad]

I have had a similar issue with Pro Tools since PT10 (maybe before?), with SD2/3, EZD/Keys, UVI Workstation, Kontakt, etc…. seems to be a Pro Tools thing that just keeps rolling along.

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