Why are the drums louder, and with more attack when clicking on them?

[DiCarlo]

Hi,

I´ve noticed that the drums are much louder, with more attack when clicking on them with the mouse, than when I play on my Roland kit. They sound much lower, and with a lot less attack on my Roland kit, then when clicking on them with the mouse. Is there some way to adjust them so that they have that same power, and attack?

Thanks.

Best,

DiCarlo

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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[Shootie]

There is not. Because when you click you preview at 100% velocity, the hardest the drum can sound. So unless you strike your Roland full power, it will not sound the same.

Try right-clicking on a drum and go to More>Preview Pad to get a better idea…

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[Mark King]

Make sure you set the triggers on your kit so they hit 127 on hardest hits. You may even want to have it triggering 127 on hits that are not the hardest to get more consistency.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

[Ken Spence]

Guys,

I have a very important question. Last time I checked, mouse  click does not have any velocity other than on and off which to my mind would be 128 velocity  just like a light switch in your house.

Drumsticks are like a dimmers on your lights. When you use them on a velocity sensitive drum pad/controller,  you can smack your pads with a varying degree of thump. And that of course is being recorded into your DAW.

I once owned a midi pad controller that had no velocity sensitivity. It would program it in at 128 and I had to manually adjust in Cubase  midi editor the velocity of every damn hit which is why I went and bought a Yamaha drum kit.
Like Shootie said earlier, you can preview with your mouse the velocity in another section of SD3

I actually use this to my advantage for setting the level of sound I want from a particular pad. Yamaha controller really sucks for setting velocities, the “I/O trigger” that I use as my symbols/rides trigger  is much more programable.

basically I can control the gain of the Piesio electric transducer in the actual pad.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.3
Operating system: Windows 10

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

• The post has been modified 3 times, last modified 3 years ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

PS party animals,

On the trigger I/O interface I have 20 velocity settings and 16 curve types, that  will  raise or lower the sound that you hear from a fixed hit.

however the use of two midi controllers presents its own problems within Cubase.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.3
Operating system: Windows 10

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

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