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[Bear-Faced Cow]

As a long time guitarist, I will start with the statement that being a guitarist has no bearing on drum programming. Drum programming is more or less having a basic sense of rhythmic concepts along with knowing where to place the dots on the grid.

 

Having said that, if you take a look at the groove on the grid editor, you will see the dots of the kit piece articulation that you want to modify either before or after the grid line (zoom in if it is difficult to tell). Add your modifications in a similar manner to what you see and nudge it slightly in either direction until it feels right. As well, adjust the velocity of your added articulations to make them fit. As long as you keep practising it, you will eventually see the groove in the vertical and horizontal sense and how to manipulate it.

Group 3 has an excellent course dealing with midi drum programming. Luke Oswald uses SD3 throughout the course. You can find it here: https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Creating-Realistic-MIDI-Drums

And, do not quantize. As you have experienced, quantizing removes all of the human qualities of the beat.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

That would require setting up  parallel bus outputs for each kit peace, in which you would have one dry and the other with effects. One bus would send into the other pre-fader and pre-effect. If anything, it seems a bit overkill for me, but it is your mix in this case. you would also have to remember that Logic has an output limitation on its auxiliary channels of 16 per instrument for SD3. This might change in the future, but until then, you are pretty much stuck with that limitation for the moment.

One other solution would be to use two instances  of SD3 in a track stack. One instance can have your effects in the other one can be dry. Each of them can have their own outputs.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

For me, it is all in context with this song. Very rarely will I use a factory preset, but when I do I will take it and modify it. I do, however, make user presets from my drum mixes as I have found that some of them provide a jumping off point. For the most part, I am able to do the majority of my drum mixes within SD3. However, when I need something along the lines of say a Helios console  emulation, I will then route everything into Logic and work there and save a project template for future mixes.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

You might be able to find it in the web shop using Tap to Find. Perhaps use a step editor  in your daw to enter a couple of bars and the paste it into T2F.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

No noise here. Perhaps you’re experiencing some  coreaudio overload. Check everything from sample buffer size to disk traffic.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

That feature would make no sense in SD3. It’s different as far as EZkeys goes, mainly because you can draw or play chords in it and adapt the MIDI to the chords in both a musical and rhythmic manner. Edit play styles and the grid editor are far more useful as far as workflow goes within SD3.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

They must have installed the bunny. I got an email regarding my order and now see my items in the Product Manager.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Maybe give them this for their server… the gerbil probably died from Black Friday exhaustion. Needs more power. 😀

Here’s hoping they get on it quick enough before more posts appear in the forum.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Many of us already have. There’s a mass issue happening with the web shop.

Someone on your side needs to look into this. We’ve been left hanging for a few hours now.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I am seeing the same issue with the groove packs that I purchased. Support ticket has been filed

Somebody needs to look into this

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Did you try the “ Reset & Rescan”?

if so, try deleting your AU cache file.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

That depends on your definition of hard rock and what you want to project in your music. Legacy of Rock is a more classic rock feel to it where Progressive Foundry is more modern.

I use them both, depending on the nature of the song.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I just tested in Logic 10.6 and was unable to re-create your issue. Any alterations in the Edit Play Styles (or SD3 for that matter) is signalling that the project is dirty and needs to be saved on quit. Upon reloading the project after quitting, the saved changes are present.

Are you using SD3 as a AU or a VST in Studio One?

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Despite not having a preset for your kit, making one is pretty quick and painless. All you need to do is select an articulation of the desired kit piece, hit learn MIDI, and hit the kit piece/pad that you want to fire that articulation with. Repeat until done and then save it for future use. You can always tweak the velocity curves afterwards.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Those genres aren’t  about complexities. Fact it’s quite the opposite.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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