Superior Drummer 3/Orchestral Percussion — need help to access

[Dave_78]

Dear All:

I’ve been a user of EZ Drummer 2 and 3 over the past 5 or so years. I’ve upgraded to Superior Drummer 3, particularly because I wanted orchestral sounds. All is loaded up and sounds great. However, I cannot get to all the sounds. I have an 88-key midi keyboard and there are more than 88 sounds. The tympani are above the highest C on the keyboard. Preparing to be embarrassed, I ask, humbly, how can I access the sounds above the keyboard? I’m using StudioOne 5 on a PC. The keyboard is StudioLogic SL88. I’ve searched high and low for an answer, and have to assume that this is so elementary that no one has thought it a problem. And then I came along…

Thanks for any help.

-Dave (mostly an acoustic piano player)

Operating system: Windows 10

Topic

[Shootie]

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

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[drumjack52]

Shootie wrote:

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

I’ve never seen an 88 note keyboard with an octave up/down button.

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
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

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[Brad]

drumjack52 wrote:

Shootie wrote:

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

I’ve never seen an 88 note keyboard with an octave up/down button.

Nektar LX88 (I have one) has this feature, moves the entire keyboard up/down a full octave.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

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[drumjack52]

Brad wrote:

drumjack52 wrote:

Shootie wrote:

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

I’ve never seen an 88 note keyboard with an octave up/down button.

Nektar LX88 (I have one) has this feature, moves the entire keyboard up/down a full octave.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Okay but that doesn’t answer the OP’s question IF he wants to stay with his existing keyboard. He could always remap inside SD3 and create a couple of MIDI presets to do the deed.

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
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

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[Brad]

BEST ANSWER

drumjack52 wrote:

Brad wrote:

drumjack52 wrote:

Shootie wrote:

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

I’ve never seen an 88 note keyboard with an octave up/down button.

Nektar LX88 (I have one) has this feature, moves the entire keyboard up/down a full octave.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.7
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Okay but that doesn’t answer the OP’s question IF he wants to stay with his existing keyboard. He could always remap inside SD3 and create a couple of MIDI presets to do the deed.

Well of course you’re right… I was answering you!

As for the OP:

There’s a global transpose option for the keyboard, at least the manual indicates that:

And this guy talks about the function about 3 minutes into the video: https://youtu.be/W0v7Sm8t9QY

 

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Brad.

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[Dave_78]

Thanks to everybody for your help. I appreciate the time and thought that went into your answers. Regards,-Dave

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[drumjack52]

Dave_78 wrote:

Thanks to everybody for your help. I appreciate the time and thought that went into your answers. Regards,-Dave

Would love to know what you did to solve the problem. It could well help others.

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
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

[Dave_78]

I’m away from the studio for a few days. I’ll post about my success or failure in a couple of days.

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[Dave_78]

I’m back in the studio. I was able to “play” the tympani — what a great sound, Toontrack! — but didn’t try transposing an octave up on the midi keyboard. Rather, I went to the edit window (or whatever it’s called), which appears on the bottom half of the StudioOne screen. In Drum Mode (the snare drum icon at the upper left of the edit window), I was able to access all the sounds by clicking on the wrench symbol, which is directly above the list of note names and their octaves. If you click on the letters that appear, you will hear the sounds assigned to them. Then I used the Paint Tool (probably named something else in other DAWs) and clicked in the grid where I wanted the hits. Then you can adjust the volume at the bottom of the graph. After the fact, I noticed that Piano View, the button to the left of Drum View, provides a keyboard that goes well above the notes on an 88-key keyboard and would have given me access to the tympani as well.

Again, thanks everybody for taking the time. You’ve been kind to a piano player, not a given in my experience.

-Dave

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[drumjack52]

Cool that you found a solution.

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
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

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