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[Andreas Walfridsson]

metrosuperstar wrote:

 Quick question though… I don’t understand the number values used on the Zone Sizes graphic (showing the pad and the 3 areas). My Snare Edge dot is moved all the way to the top (which I guess means 127), and my Snare Center dot is almost all the way at the bottom, sitting at a value of 8.

I don’t understand what these values mean, and if the way I’ve laid it out (the dots almost fully at end of spectrums) makes any sense. Seems to play well…

The value tells SD3 where you hit the drum/pad.

If you are using three zones and the topmost dot is placed at 127 (in the Mapping tab) the articulation assigned to zone 1 will be triggered only at 127. The articulation assigned to zone 2 will be triggered by any value between the dots and the zone 3 articulation will be triggered by any value lower than the bottom dot.

metrosuperstar wrote:

Further adding to my confusion is the 2nd screen, called “Snare Zone Control” where there is a range of Center – Mid Center – Edge, and again 2 dots that can be moved around. On this screen, I’ve got Edge at 111. I don’t know if it makes a difference or how it relates to the other screen.

Can you please clarify?

Many snares are mapped to the Snare Zone Trigger articulation by default. The Snare Zone Trigger triggers different articulations depending on where the snare is hit,  this can be tweaked from the Snare Zone Control tab. If the snare is mapped to another articulation and custom zones are added in the Mapping tab, then the Mapping tab (and not the Snare Zone Control) should be used to tweak the snare zone response.

Hope this helped!

//Andreas

 

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@Catalin said:
Are there any settings inside SD3 for live ?
I have win10 Lenovo laptop with i7 procesor and 16Gb ram.  

Not at the moment.

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@David Snow said:
It appears to me now, that I have 2 options on tempo maps to live drums:
1) Make the tempo map in DP and import into Superior.
2) Make NO tempo map in DP, but make it in superior and import it from superior into DP.
Am I correct?

Yes.

@David Snow said:
Here is what I am wondering about:
I have a tune at 100 bpm. I have drums in it that were played to a click and are fairly close to the beat. Do I have to make a tempo map in either program, or can I just let superior track the audio to midi, and not make beat by beat perfection out of any tempo map? I am reluctant to have and DP file with variable tempo maps unless absolutely necessary. Id appreciate your thoughts on strategy here.

Thanks  

Just make sure that the tempo map exported with the MIDI file from SD3 is a constant 100bpm and everything should sync perfectly.

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@Magnus said:
I think MIDI mapping could be a lot easier if each played note mapped to a kit-piece / E-kit auto-select the mapped kit-piece in SD3 so when editing velocities e.t.c you’re always editing the correct one.. i think SD2 has this feature and it’s very convenient

Did you know that the items in the Analyzer in MIDI in/E-drum settings are clickable? Play a note on your kit and select the corresponding item in the analyzer, then you can edit the note.

@Magnus said:
Secondly MIDI Learn doesn’t seem to work properly as i can’t select for example “Tom 2” (in SD3) and hit the tom on my E-kit.. it doesn’t re-map the note number / kitpiece in SD3.. I’m using a preset-note layout for 2Box kit but i have an expanded kit so notenumbers doesn’t match.

Hit Tom 2 on your kit and then select the corresponding item in the Analyser (MIDI in/E-drum settings), then set the articulation in Edit MIDI Mapping and Response to Tom 2.

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You could try to turn off all of the articulations that you don’t like to use from the Articulations Menu in the Drums Tab. Make sure that both edge, tip, bell etc. are turned off. Now other articulations will be triggered as substitutes for those that you don’t want to use. If you turn off all Tight and Closed articulations for example, these will be replaced with open 0. Then go to the Hi-Hat & Snare CC tab in E-Drum settings and click the Hi-Hat Pedal Control button. Now use the sliders to adjust the response.

Maybe you could adjust the adsr-curve for the articulations that sound too open to make them sound a bit less open? The adsr-curve is found in the Envelope and Offset property box in the Drums tab.

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@megapeng said:
add as guide track a “no transient detection track” as reference track (oh)
dave  

How about adding an extra OH track and set the Mix knob to 100% source audio/0% samples audio to hear the Source Audio only? If you like a clear view of the waveform you could set the Velocity Threshold to 127 and the Match Threshold to 100% to make sure nothing is triggered and no Events are visualized. Would this help?

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@gary said:
It would be great to be able to double click in the grid to add notes without having to change tools. Or by holding down a modifier key to enable the pencil. Thanks. SD3 is fantastic!  

Thanks for your suggestions! Did you know that you can flip between the tools using keyboard shortcuts? Pointer Tool: 1, Pencil Tool: 2.

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I think this tutorial could help you:

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@Tom Sarracino said:
I recorded a dum kit with two Mics on one stereo track in pro tools 12,

Exported it as a wav file 24×48,

Dragged and dropped into tracker,

Tempo’d it.

Then hit export but I only get the single drum selected from the previous page in the combined track.

Never the full kit.

After hours of trying everything what am I missing?
TomS  

Is it correct that you only have ONE track in the Tracker? In that case you have to do the following:
1. Duplicate the track to get one track/instrument that you like to trigger.
2. Use the Sound Recognition menu to select the instrument to trigger on each track.
3. Edit the events/trigger points where you need to (the Tracker was designed to trigger close miced instruments rather than multiple ones from one single stereo recording, so you’ll probably have to do a bit of tweaking).
3. Click the export button.
4. Select the tracks that you wish to export
5. Export by drag and drop or use the button named ‘Save Selected MIDI as…’

Hope this helps!

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@mertas said:
is SD3 tracker ready to extract drums from song with other sounds ( bass, strings etc).
what to expect?  

This is not what it is designed to do. However, kick, snare, tight closed hi-hat and other distinct sounds are usually being triggered ok even when there are other instruments in the mix. You will probably get an ok foundation to improve on using the tools available in the Tracker tab. The quality of the results will vary between different audio files.

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@Adam Lasater said:
Just started playing today using tracker for replacement in one of my projects and so far I LOVE it for the most part, even if tracker isn’t quite as perfect and automated as previews made it seem. I’m sure the more I play the more I’ll find but right now I have one very simple but big request:

Horizontal locking option in the grid editor. I.E. I used tracker to convert a performance to MIDI and now (for 2 reasons, 1: desire to change some parts and 2: some bugs within Tracker) I want to move certain hits from one drum/cymbal to another but keep them in exactly the same place (human and not perfectly locked to the grid). Just a suggestion but I could see this implemented as a button right next to the “snap to grid” button and/or as keyboard shortcuts (I.e. Up and down arrows)

Thanks!  

You can use Shift + Drag for horizontal locking in the Grid Editor.

Did you know that you can change what instrument and articulation to Trigger in the Tracker tab?
1. Select the notes you like to trigger with another instrument/articulation
2. Open the Sound Recognition menu (above the amount control)
3. Click the Edit button (to the left of the Triggered Articulation heading)
4. Select Other in the left column in Edit Triggered Articulation. Now any loaded instrument can be selected.
5. Select the Instrument and Articulation that you like the selected notes to trigger
6. Check ‘Apply to selected notes only’ in the Triggered Articulation box
7. Click find hits.

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@DNSinSC said:
Thank you. I am using SD3 as a plugin inside of Logic X. The drum tracks are live .wav files. I have follow host enabled, but they are out of sync. I am new to SD3 and perhaps I am going about it wrong. This song was recorded live to a click track in Logic. When I try to line up a midi track in SD3, it snaps to a grid and the song is slightly offset from that grid. Hope this helps clarify it…  

You could try to select all instruments and then use the Offset slider in the Envelope and Offset property box in the Drums tab.
You could zoom in as much as possible on the song track to make the MIDI blocks snap to a 1/32 note grid.
In worst case you could disable Snap in the Grid Editor, select all notes and move them to the exact time.

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