Bear-Faced Cow
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Bear-Faced CowNot experiencing that here. Wondering if your listening environment may be emphasizing certain frequencies.
jord
Bear-Faced CowFull adoption by the music industry is often 4 to 6 months. Considering that this release can be considered a very major release, you are best to be patient.
Unless you enjoy suffering a thousand cuts from riding the bleeding edge…
jord
Bear-Faced CowUnless you can program the pressure sensitivity to trigger a note or MIDI CC. I know this is possible with the Maschine Mikro on up.
Also, you have 64 pads, so you’re not really starving for pads in most common finger drumming situations.
jord
Bear-Faced CowBleed is not a global setting. It is controlled through your presets since it can be used in many different ways. You can set up a default preset that contains no bleed and audition your kits that way. SD3 has a much larger footprint than EZ D2, which includes all of the bleed associated with recorded drums.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou would be able to do this on a single pad is if your pad controller supported firing a MIDI note on release of the pad. Then, you could set it up to fire a closed hi-hat articulation. Otherwise, you can use the open pedal articulation along with midi cc4 tied to a control knob on your controller to manipulate the position of the hi-hat.
jord
Bear-Faced CowWhen you say percussive “ chatter“, are you referring to bleed? If so, you can either turn it down or off in your mixer channel properties.
jord
Bear-Faced CowWith a possible argument against the New York SDX bundle, The SDXs are pretty much genre specific, thus making it more predictable as to what to expect from both the genre and the producer behind it. That really isn’t what I would call blind faith. In many situations, I have a pretty good idea of what I am going to reach for, primarily because I know it works for that particular song. However, I will still mix and match kit pieces and tweak them according to the needs of the song.I will also be applying further processing as required in the mix. The only things I really won’t do with them is try to wedge them into a different genre, unless I am looking for something totally unusual. Trying to make them into something they are not it’s more an exercise of unnecessary work accompanied with possible disappointment.
The core library is a far different animal. It is not genre specific, nor should it be. Tweaking and processing is going to be a requirement to make it fit in any Song. I have had the odd rare occasion where a preset worked with a slight amount of tweaking, or Replacing the snare to match the energy of the song. However, I have found that to be few and far between. To me, it’s all good.
Blind faith in a raw kit or preset within the core library sounds more like a setup for disappointment. The processing that you are used to within an SDX would need to be applied to a kit piece in the core library in order to have a similar effect. The fact that you dated yourself back to the 70s (which is actually when I started) implies the ability to go old school. Thus, applying EQ curves that are more widely used within a genre should not be considered an issue as you would be doing this on a raw recorded kit piece. Even as you go through the presets within the core library, you’ll find EQ on the majority of them to carve out frequencies which eat up a kit piece’s energy (thus addressing the weakness part). The wet ambiance part is even simpler: don’t use it if it does not work for the song). It’s a simple as turning down a channel fader or turning off the bleed altogether. Or, I have had certain mix situations which required more of a Glynn Johns type of approach. Or, if you are more 80s, you would be drenching your kits in reverb. Bottom line is that the core library is designed to be moulded and tweaked to fit your needs. However, I find that it is very rare that it would just work right off the bat with a raw kit or preset (they’re good but they never suit my needs).
And, after all that, if you are finding that an SDX or an EZX better meet your needs, you shouldn’t have to make yourself feel guilty for using it. Having access to so many well-known producers and studios (and in some cases, rare equipment) is one of the things I enjoy about using SD3.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou are able to modify the groove using either the Edit Play Styles (Similar to EZD2) or the Grid Editor. The Grid Editor will allow you to get granular as to which ghost notes you want to either modify or remove.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou are comparing a general purpose core library (and you didn’t specify whether it was a raw kit or preset you were using) to a genre specific mix ready library with a much smaller footprint. If they are the raw kits, then you have a bunch of frequencies eating up the the mix, thus requiring some processing in order to better sit in a mix.
Despite my use of both Rock Foundry and Legacy of Rock SDXs as they are more inline with my stuff, I also use the core library for a number of drum mixes many times because I can better fit them into a mix.
That being said, if you find that other libraries are doing the trick for you, use them. That’s what they are all there for. In the end, it’s all about the music.
jord
Bear-Faced CowIt can be programmed to sound natural enough using a MIDI CC curve and knowing how certain drummers manipulate their hi-hat. It’s pretty much an art form. Not to mention that in a recording and a mix, most of those infinite variations get lost.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou can try entering the drum type in the search box and have it list all products related to your search.
jord
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Thanked by: Gerald MooreBear-Faced CowI would definitely agree. Since there’s only one line of ARM products being released among some promised Intel releases, the music industry is not going to treat moving to ARM as an urgency. Give it time to let everyone get it right. In the process, it might also be better than expected, given some of the possibilities of going ARM.
One of the tell-tale signs that they will be ARM ready is when they have everything working on Big Sur.
jord
Bear-Faced CowI wouldn’t count on anything ARM specific for audio production just yet. just as it takes time for them to adapt to the latest OS, it will be even more so for a new CPU. Many of the developers are already recommending not to immediately upgrade to Big Sur until they have tested their products against it. For many of the developers, once they get things working on Big Sur, it will most likely be a matter of re-compiling it for the new processors.
jord
Bear-Faced CowAs stated above: you would program the articulations in the groove editor.
further instructions on how to use the groove editor can be found in the SD3 reference manual.
jord
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