Some alternating samples are too loud

[Gerry Peters]

I’m using S3. Some alternating samples are too loud in my brush drum toms. If I carefully hit each note using the same velocity, some notes stick out as very noticeably louder. I know that when you hit the snare, you can hear it alternating different samples. Can I either turn that off for my brush toms or somehow find the culprit sample and reduce it’s volume?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.2
Operating system: Windows 10

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[John]

Hi,

 

first please make sure you are fully updated both for the SD3 plugin and the Library.

 

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Gerry Peters]

John wrote:

Hi,

 

first please make sure you are fully updated both for the SD3 plugin and the Library.

 

BR,

John

After I posted I did update both and I just checked and see that it still has the same behavior.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: Windows 10

[John]

OK,

are you selecting a preset first (if so, which one?) or building your own kit and mixer?

Which Velocity range are we talking about?

You can always open the Hit Variation Property Box for the Toms and experiment with turning off ‘Use Adjacent Layers’, etc.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Gerry Peters]

John wrote:

OK,

are you selecting a preset first (if so, which one?) or building your own kit and mixer?

Which Velocity range are we talking about?

You can always open the Hit Variation Property Box for the Toms and experiment with turning off ‘Use Adjacent Layers’, etc.

BR,
John

I did some more testing and I tried unchecking the 4 different options under hit variations and even turned of hit variation. I then recorded the tom just doing 1/8 note hits increasing in velocity and found that somewhere between 102 and 105 it switches over to another sample zone. All hits from 60-102 are normal volume and from 105 to 1127 it’s pretty loud.  It happens this way every time, no variations.

So from this I don’t think it is alternating samples but a problem with the multi sample switch. If I could reduce the volume of that sample zone above 104 then I think it would balance out. Is that possible? Sounds like an interesting experiment

I guess another alternative is to use a different brush tom. I’m using Nashville 12″ PB Brush

[John]

Ah OK, you are loading a Tom from the Nashville EZX.
Well, it’s bound to have less samples and layers than the toms sampled for the SD3 SDX. They are processed samples as well, very much so compared to the SDX samples.
If you want them to sit better with the SD3 library, I suggest you route them to new channels, so they won’t go through extra processing.

 

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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