Song creator not working

[anthony picariello]

I just installed superior drummer 3 upgrade from 2. I can see all of my midi packs. I open the song creator and drop a midi file into the midi drop zone, but the song creator doesn’t find any matches or related midi files to build a song. I have tried various midi from various packs and everything seems to be working, just not in song creator. My superior drummer 3 says it has the latest version installed. I am using the newest version of windows 10 64. I am using the newest version of cubase 9 pro. Is there a setting that I am missing or is this a possible bug?

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[John]

Hi,

which version number is displayed in the plugin interface?
Can you please try going into the Settings > Advanced and ‘Restore MIDI Database’?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Henrik Ekblom]

Try to reset the MIDI database in Settings/Advanced. Report back on how that goes!

Edit: John beat me to it 😀

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[anthony picariello]

Hi,
I have version 3.0.0.2. I did the restore midi database and that fixed the issue. Thank you for that!!
Now how or where can I put my user midi or third party midi(groove monkee,etc…)?

[John]

Hi,

you have the User MIDI folder, which you can access in the Grooves window. It has a drop-down menu which lets you open the folder in the Explorer/Finder.
If you have 3rd party folders located elsewhere, you can link them via the ‘Grooves’ drop-down in the upper left corner: go to ‘Folders > Add Linked Folder…’

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[anthony picariello]

I have had to restore midi database every time I go to use the song creator. After I restore I can use the feature, but next time I load up cubase I have to restore midi database again. What now?

[Patrik Wall]

@anthony picariello said:
I have had to restore midi database every time I go to use the song creator. After I restore I can use the feature, but next time I load up cubase I have to restore midi database again. What now?  

We have had one report of this bug previously but has so far failed to locate the cause.
If you could help out by answering a few questions it would be very useful for us 🙂

1) What MIDI file are you using in the song creator (is it a Toontrack MIDI file or something you made yourself / 3rd party MIDI?)
2) Does this only happen once you have added your User MIDI / 3rd Party MIDI?
3) The next time you launch Cubase and the song creator stops working, could you please check your C:/Users/”Your user”/AppData/Roaming/Toontrack/Superior3 folder for a file called MidiDB. What size does it have? If you check the “Date modified” column, does it appear to have been changed when you launched Cubase?
4) When the song creator stops working, is everything else in the grooves section working as intended? (Tap2Find or just browsing and previewing grooves as normal)

Sorry for the inconvenience, we are working on it and I hope we can get it resolved as soon as possible!

Bass player in swedish thrash metal band Defiatory
www.defiatory.se

Coder at Toontrack
www.toontrack.com

[anthony picariello]

1) toontrack midi
2) no it happens every time I start an instance of cubase.
3) the MidiDB file size is 116484 kb, the date modified is 11/13/2017 at 8:44pm. Which is when I had to restore the midi database.
4) song creator doesn’t just stop working, it doesn’t work at all or should I say doesn’t find any other midi matches.
It seems as though only the song creator is not working properly, tap to find works(on its own) and previewing other grooves works. Song creator is the only issue that I am aware of. Once I restore midi everything works.

[Patrik Wall]

@anthony picariello said:
1) toontrack midi
2) no it happens every time I start an instance of cubase.
3) the MidiDB file size is 116484 kb, the date modified is 11/13/2017 at 8:44pm. Which is when I had to restore the midi database.
4) song creator doesn’t just stop working, it doesn’t work at all or should I say doesn’t find any other midi matches.
It seems as though only the song creator is not working properly, tap to find works(on its own) and previewing other grooves works. Song creator is the only issue that I am aware of. Once I restore midi everything works.  

Edit: I found and fixed the issue, it will be included in a future patch (a patch is about to be released so this will not make it into that one unfortunately)

Thanks for your help 🙂

Until then you actually dont need to rebuild the database if you dont want to, you just need to drag another file (or the same one) onto the song creator to search again and it should work.

Bass player in swedish thrash metal band Defiatory
www.defiatory.se

Coder at Toontrack
www.toontrack.com

[okellyc1]

Hi,

 

I am now all of a sudden having the same issue with Superior Drummer III (purchased in November last year), where out of nowhere, my song creator does not work.  I restored both the instrument and MIDI database multiple times, started and reopened a bunch of times and nothing is working.

 

The only thing I can think of that may have caused this is deleting EZ Drummer II from my machine and maybe SD3 relied on some libraries that were technically mapped to EZD II?

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

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