SD4 Request: Presets Manager

[MrTopo!]

I don’t know how long it will be before SD4 is released (although I have a feeling it will be coming next year), or if it will be an already included feature, but it isn’t at the moment, so…

Superior Drummer needs a preset manager, with its search, where you can directly access the presets of any expansion (included or, especially, user ones) regardless of which expansion is loaded. And to be able to mark presets as favorites as well.

In my case, right now I have SD3, EZ3, 44 EZX and 19 SDX. That adds up to 65 libraries. Of which some come with 2, 3 or 4 independent libraries. 90 selectable libraries I counted that I have.

I prepare my user presets for specific songs in different expansions. There comes a time when it is impossible to remember which expansion the preset I am looking for belongs to, it is chaos to find them sometimes. Or remember which expansion that Toontrack preset I liked so much and whose name I can’t remember belongs to.

Please add that feature so I can easily find our presets with a search engine, and be able to mark favorites. It’s become a huge ecosystem. Please.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 10

Superior Drummer 3 + EZdrummer 3 + 21 SDX & 51 EZX | EZkeys 2 | EZmix 3 | Roland TD-27KV
Cubase Pro 14 | WaveLab Pro 12 | Dorico Pro 4 | SpectraLayers Pro 11
Windows 10 Education x64 | i7-8700K | 32gb RAM DDR4 3000MHz | MSI Z370 PC Pro | Steinberg UR-RT2

• This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by MrTopo!.
• This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by MrTopo!.

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[drumjack52]

Would be nice but I don’t think it’s technically possible given the way things are setup. You can’t call up a preset for an SDX unless you are in that specific SDX. One of many backwards things that mars an otherwise stellar program. There’s so many things that would make SD3 perfect and more user friendly.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

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
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[Tom Conner]

Wow 19 SDXs – nice! I agree that preset management in SD3 needs work for edrummers, and making it more difficult is a few SDXs that require different midi maps. So changing a preset may also require loading a midi mapping file for it. I have worked around this by using Cantabile as a VST host. So I have one big dropdown menu with all 100 of my drum kit presets across many SDXs with the right midi maps and arranged in a way that I can quickly find them. These presets are also selectable via midi, but so far I just use my laptop touchpad.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 11

DWe six piece kit, Roland BT-1s/eDRUMin, RME Fireface interface, JH Audio IEMs w/Fiio Amp, Porter & Davies transducer, Razer 16 laptop, SD3 (State of the Art, Stockholm, Hitmaker, Legacy of Rock, Decades, Death & Darkness, Fields of Rock, Stories)

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[MrTopo!]

But the idea of ​​having a preset manager is to do it in a similar way to adding instruments (from a separate window), which shows the presets from all the libraries you have installed. It shouldn’t be too complex to list all the presets.
And loading a preset shouldn’t cause problems with midi mapping. I mean, for example, if we are using Decades SDX and the preset we want to use is from Death SDX, opening the preset would be essentially the same as the current process of loading Death SDX (thus automatically exiting Decades SDX) and opening the preset. But in a more direct and orderly way. Internally the same process (Open library -> Load preset), but all in one click (or two).

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 10

Superior Drummer 3 + EZdrummer 3 + 21 SDX & 51 EZX | EZkeys 2 | EZmix 3 | Roland TD-27KV
Cubase Pro 14 | WaveLab Pro 12 | Dorico Pro 4 | SpectraLayers Pro 11
Windows 10 Education x64 | i7-8700K | 32gb RAM DDR4 3000MHz | MSI Z370 PC Pro | Steinberg UR-RT2

• This post was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by MrTopo!.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

MIDI mapping is not handled within the user presets in Superior Drummer. They are handled within projects.

Presets within your VST host is pretty much equivalent to a project within Superior Drummer. I have done something similar in Logic. However, I can group my presets within folders.

Jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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