Bear-Faced Cow
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Bear-Faced CowUnless they found some setting unknown to every Logic user, the only way to get a MIDI file into SD3 other than hitting the record button in SD3, is to export the MIDI region/track to a file and drag the file into SD3. Dragging MIDI out of Logic otherwise does an export as audio, and cut/copy region doesn’t populate an external clipboard.
I could only be persuade to believe otherwise with a complete and detailed video.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou might have to detail your steps a little more. I’m not able to recreate your issue.
jord
Bear-Faced CowAll depends on your desired outcome.
I often use either a closed or tight tip or edge and play with the velocity and placement to get what I want. I will often do this in context of the song itself.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou can enter hi-hat articulations in the grid editor to open and close the hat. You don’t need a hi-hat controller (although having some sort of general MIDI pad controller doesn’t hurt to have).
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Bear-Faced CowYou can duplicate the tracks in the tracker and have each track recognize different kit pieces from the same stereo file. You can then export the combined MIDI from the all of the tracks into SD3.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThat’ll do it. It does have me wondering by the rest of the post, regarding Follow Host, if you are using EZD as standalone, rather than as an instrument plug-in within Logic.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThanx. I don’t consider myself an expert by any means. I’m always learning, and there are plenty of recording and mixing tutorials these days that can readily be applied to SD3. While you are right in that there is no quick and easy solution, it becomes quicker and easier with practice and application. Despite having found myself negatively affected by the entire COVID situation, I spent part of my down time practicing what I learned from videos from Warren Huart, Charles Dye, Mark Needham, etc., on SD3, as it’s mixing capabilities is not any different than any DAW. I would say, now that you have done it once, do it again. Get yourself to a point where you can take a kit piece suitable for the song you are working on and shape it so that it sits in the mix and yet cuts through. Also, save everything from your EQ curves and compressor settings to  the entire channel strip. Depending on the mix, I will find myself using a familiar starting point and in many cases, I can have a drum mix going in as little as 15 minutes because of not having to redo all my settings.
With all that said an done, however, I am also of the old-school belief of recording things right at the source. This is more of the reason why I enjoy SDXs like the Foundry and the New York Studios bundles. I can find a recorded kit suitable to the song and shape it from there. Not to mention, the player used on the kit may also have an effect on the song. I had two songs where Nir Z was more suitable along with the Allaire Studio recording of it. Anything else would have been needless work.
Of course, all of this is nothing more than my opinion, which along with $2 will get you a coffee and donut. 😀
jord
Bear-Faced CowRoutings and ambient channels are only a part of it. Carving out the boxy areas and adding some compression while emphasizing the dynamics will also be in order.
Simply put however, if you want it to sound like Progressive Foundry, then you need to process it like Forrester Savill and play it like Steve Judd. This is why there are all of these, dare I say, great SDX expansions. Guys like Forrester Savill and Bob Rock have all ready done the hard work to gear the recorded kits to their genres. The Core Library is meant to be a raw as possible in order to fill the need of all genres.
jord
Routings and ambient channels are only a part of it. Carving out the boxy areas and adding some compression while emphasizing the dynamics will also be in order.
Simply put however, if you want it to sound like Progressive Foundry, then you need to process it like Forrester Savill and play it like Steve Judd. This is why there are all of these, dare I say, great SDX expansions. Guys like Forrester Savill and Bob Rock have all ready done the hard work to gear the recorded kits to their genres. The Core Library is meant to be a raw as possible in order to fill the need of all genres.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThis would depend more on the type and quality of the drum track that you are importing. If you are working with a stereo drum track with crappy quality, then you are more likely to have false triggers then if you have a well recorded track with a single kit piece.
There will always be some editing involved.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou might want to check the midi note matching the articulation of that crash
jord
Bear-Faced CowMost likely your recording input monitoring volume on your instrument channel strip is different from your playback volume and should be adjusted.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThere could be a lot of factors affecting this, including how are you balanced your channels to how loud the rest of your mix is. It’s hard to tell without any real details.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThis has been discussed many times. The settings are destructively applied once you select another kit piece articulation. The changes that you made are in place.
jord
Bear-Faced CowLogic has a built-in resource saving feature in which new plug-ins will be loaded on an empty Audio or instrument track. To force EZD2 to play, put an empty midi region on the track.
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Thanked by: Jorge369Bear-Faced CowYou would have to check able to site to see if they have any software that allows you to modify the pads. Aside from that, I found that configuring a midi pad controller as if it were a drum set is rather limited. It is best to configure it to your own finger drumming playing style that to force yourself to play something that is not comfortable.
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