Superior 3 in Ableton 10.0.6

[HARKNESS]

Hi ,

i just bought and installed Superior Drummer 3 on my Laptop, the plan is to use with Ableton 10.0.6 which i believe doesn’t support VST3 -Will i be able to get this to work ?

i.e. can i just put my Superior VST3 into my regular VST folder which Ableton finds easily or do i have to upgrade to Ableton 10.1 which now supports VST3…or does Superior actually come in both VST and VST3 fromats?

Thanks

 

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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[John]

Hi,

 

Superior Drummer 3 indeed works with Ableton Live 10. It is not a VST3 plugin, so no worries.

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[HARKNESS]

Thanks Jon ,

I got it up and running!

A new question though…I am Using SD3 with a Roland TD17 via Abelton  and will be routing the Kit separately out to the FOH Mixing Desk(in SD3 i have Kik on Output 1+2 Snr on Output 3+4 Toms Output 5+6 etc…going into Ableton, then out Ableton to the FOH via a MOTU) All is well with routing so far .

My problem is that I would really like to be able to adjust separate AMB mic amounts to each drum,  for example the smaller toms dryer while the Floor tom  significantly more wet sounding. As i see it I can only have the AMB mics on a stereo track which effects the whole kit globally.

Is there a way to creates some sort of Aux for the AMB mics so that i can dial in separate amounts per track?(more on the Snare less on the Kik etc…) I did play with the ‘Bleed’ amounts per track and heard no difference.

Also i am hoping to Automate reverb amounts on each drum too , will this be easily achieved?

Thanks!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: Windows 10

[John]

Hi,

 

the Bleed sliders in the AMB mic in the mixer are your friends 😉

You CAN go into ‘Route Instrument Microphones’ and create new channels for each instrument’s AMB bleed but it does feel unnecessary.

Automating can be done by connecting CC to a control or, perhaps more efficiently, connecting several Sends to a Macro and then assign a CC to the Macro.

A Macro offers more control over different ranges, slopes, etc.

 

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[HARKNESS]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your previous help. Things are going pretty smoothly and i am really enjoying SD3.

I am mildly confused as to how to organize things within SD3 though. If i make a stack sound on a particular drum(layering 2 snares for example) can i save just that drum into the library, when i tried to save just the snare using the ‘user preset’/’save as’ it seemed to save the whole kit.How can i just do one single drum?

also, if i want to have a custom ‘default mixer’ set up do recommend me using the top left ‘File’/’Save As’ or the “User preset’/’Save As’ to the right- i am not sure of the difference of these 2 ‘Saving’ methods?

Thanks and apologies if i’m a Layman,

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