I literally lost weeks of auditions as well. No one replied to a similar post that I posted. You would think something like this would cause a spark of interest. At any rate, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me. I have been historically unsatisfied with Toontrack’s one star favorite, so about a few days ago I started doing some research for a better browser. There doesn’t appear to be anything that worked as far as I research, but I figured out with another app I am now using Mac’s Finder for everything and it works exactly how I dreamed. The app is called “MIDIPlayer X” and the workflow is this. Run a Finder search for “.mid”, highlight all the midi files you want to audition. Right click and click “open”. Finder will ask you if you want to open them all, click “Yes.” That opens MIDIPlayer X and you can set it to round Robbin all of your selections. (Sidenote) set up a midi out virtual device in MIDIPlayer X open SD3 or EZD3 and choose that virtual device as your midi in. When you hear a midi loop you like click Opt+F and that opens Finder and highlights the exact file that’s playing. Tag away with as many tags as you like. When you are done auditioning the files, any files without a tag, tag those with the tag “Auditioned” so you know not to audition those until you are done auditioning the files with no tags. Once you have everything tagged, you can go back to Re-audition those to see if you possibly missed a good loop. Good luck!
Oh, one more excellent thing is that MIDIPlayer X plays the whole loop and then moves to the next loop.
I guess losing weeks of auditions is not a big deal to some. I’m switching to Finder with MIDI Player X. I can search files by name, audition them, and rate by multiple colors. And most importantly, I won’t lose my work. Plus there is a midi out that feeds into Superior Drummer. It’s working much better than the Superior Drummer browser for auditioning and searching.
It’s work spectacularly. I am auditioning all the midi files from Finder playing in SD3. I can tag all the ones I like with whatever tag. The one tag that I like the most is one-pass for all the items I audition and but don’t select as a favorite. This way I can exclude those from future auditions.
Thank you. I don’t see an option to rename within the SD3 browser. I wouldn’t mind being able just to rename the name that appears in the “Name” column, but I don’t see that option.
I’m going around in circles. I wrote to support asking them where I can find support forum. They sent me here. This what they said “The EZdrummer support forum can be accessed from Toontrack.com > Support > Support Forum. You must be logged in to access the EZdrummer forum.”
