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[James Ford]

I know we can chose different pieces to make our own kits, but to what extent? Like, I have slightly modified the “Djent” kit in SD3, but I want to use the cymbal setup found in Drums of Destruction. If a kit only has four cymbals, can we not add more cymbals? Also, I’ve tried using the snare from the “Djent” kit on another kit, but it sounded different. Any ideas?

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[Mac McCormick]

If you own SD3 then you have the SD3 core library. An SDX contains other drum kit(s) along with new MIDI grooves. A MIDI pack is also an option for SD3 and those contain only the MIDI groves but will work with any EZX, SDX, or the core SD3 library. As far as adding new drum sounds from another kit, just remember that any instrument in any kit, be it cymbal, tom, Snare, kick, hi hat, etc. can play any sound in any of your Toontrack libraries. This means that you could assign a cymbal to replace a tom that you are not using. If a drum from another kit sounds different in the kit you have brought it into, it could be that the ambient mics, EQ, reverb, etc. are different in the preset and kit you took it from than the one your are using. But the core drum is the same.

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[Brad]

Yes, you can add additional instruments, or in your case cymbals, from another SDX or EZX for that matter. In the manual in section 3.4 check out ‘Add Instrument”

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