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[Andreas Walfridsson]

@olliepudge said:
It seems like adjusting ANY of the articulations does nothing as if the software isn’t reading my hi hat, but that can’t be the case because it plays sound when I hit it. I’m puzzled here.  

By ‘adjusting ANY of the articulations …’, do you mean that you are using the Hi-Hat Pedal Control in the Hi-Hat & Snare CC tab in MIDI in/E-Drums Settings? What happens if you make sure the bottom slider (between the Closed and Tight articulations) on that control is set to a really low value, like 2 and all of the other sliders to 0? If this makes it easy to trigger the Tight articulation, can you then tweak all the sliders to make the Hi-Hat respond ok?

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[Andreas Walfridsson]

@Bob Muso said:
So I uploaded a stereo drum mix to convert to midi:
Listen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5i4bpajqhbprp3/Drums-Blues-120ev.wav?dl=0
Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5i4bpajqhbprp3/Drums-Blues-120ev.wav?dl=1
If it does that it should do the rest hopefully.
Bob.  

Imported this file. Piece of cake. Everything was triggered perfectly in a few minutes time. Had to select which tom sound to map to which tom in SD3 and tweak the hi-hat a bit. Added and removed a few cymbal hits while playing through the song as well. If I knew the song and didn’t have to listen to the entire thing it would have been even quicker.

//Andreas

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[Andreas Walfridsson]

@Bob Muso said:
I have no to way to TRY SD3 to see if it will convert the wav to midi accurately other than spending US$319. What is the best way to find out if it will ?

The result differs from file to file. For close miced instruments the AI generally makes a very good job. The tools available in the Tracker makes it possible to trigger any file, in the end it’s just a matter of how much time you like to spend improving the results using the different tools and features available in the Tracker.

Have a look at this video to get to know more about what the tracker can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qoRmShiuItQ

@Bob Muso said:
Will SD3 give a 2 bar count-in -1 0 1 or just one bar 0 1 ?  

In settings it’s possible to set what the first bar should be called, 0 or 1. There are no count-ins in the tracker, you can however make the tracker follow you host (DAW).

//Andreas

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[Andreas Walfridsson]

@jsmullikenca said:
I have the same question, and it’s the primary reason that I am considering SD3. I think Bob also uses Band in a Box, as I do, which will produce a full drum track mix. I have hopes that I could import the full drum mix into SD3, and have tracker find all of the individual parts and map them to midi. Even if I had to use the same mixed WAV file, and select a different piece of the kit each time, could it pull the hi hat out of the mix in one pass, and then the snare out in a second pass, etc.? If there’s a way to use tracker with a full drum mix, I’m in. Thanks.  

The Tracker was designed to replace close miced instruments (kick, snare, toms, ride, hi-hat, cymbals). It’s however possible to do as you suggest, import the file, duplicate it and then replace different kit pieces from the different tracks. The AI may not be able to recognize all trigger points from the file, but it will give you a solid foundation to improve on using the tools available in the Tracker tab if you need to. The clearer the transients are the better the result will be. This means repeated hits, like 8th notes, played on the edge of a bigger cymbal (a typical crash, ride or china for example) or an open hi-hat may need some user improvement. Do you feel like you generally will be triggering noisy drum parts, then you will probably need to spend some more time, if not, the job should be done pretty quickly. I suggest you have a look at this tutorial (if you haven’t seen it already) to get an impression of how to use the Tracker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qoRmShiuItQ

In the end everything is possible, it’s just a matter of how much time you like to spend on tracking each song. I’ve been able to track pretty tricky drum parts, Dream Theater stuff for example, from stereo files using the method you suggested. I honestly don’t know of any other software that would be better or quicker to use for this process.

//Andreas

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[Andreas Walfridsson]

Options to adjust the response from one instrument or an entire instrument class like ‘All Toms’ or ‘All Cymbals’ at once will be available as well.

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