Bear-Faced Cow
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Bear-Faced CowEnable the scroll and three-finger drag gestures in your System Prefs. You will have more control over SD3’s controls.
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Thanked by: Lawrence CollenBear-Faced CowGood song… also listened to “Hey, What you Tryin’ To Do” (liked it a bit better for some reason – not saying the other is bad).
Noticed the usual things I often mention to you, which again are pretty much characteristic of mixing loud with headphones.
jord
Bear-Faced CowI would imagine they would vary between SDXs due to the both genre and how they were recorded (and even played for that matter). SD3 core library is more of a “one size fits all” and may need tweaking to suit your tastes.
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Bear-Faced CowThat all depends if you are comparing the EZX to an unprocessed hi-hat. Big difference.
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Bear-Faced CowActually, you can use the scroll function on the Magic Trackpad. It has a scroll gesture. You can also three-finger drag the control if enabled.
No ideas lost here because of that. 😉
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Bear-Faced CowThe last thing you want is symmetry. Symmetry produces standing waves which require more treatment to absorb them. You want your listening room to be as asymmetrical as possible. The fact that you are against a corner could cause a waveform buildup in the corner. You could alleviate this with a corner bass trap, and cheapest way you can take care of this is with a stack of magazines just past speaker height. If you have a subwoofer, which I would recommend you get, place it perpendicular to your listening position. This will help to cancel standing waves. As to figuring out the placement, you can do this by placing the subwoofer in your seating position and crawl around the room. Wherever it sounds most “bass-y” is where you place the subwoofer. Also make sure that you have maintained an equal balance with your other speakers or you will find your mixes lacking bass due to overcompensation (or the other way around).
Also, don’t mix music loud. Aside from potentially damaging your hearing, you bring more of the room into play when you are loud. Near-field monitors are meant to listened to a close range (this is why they are called near-field monitors).
Your situation is not un-ideal as you believe.
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Bear-Faced CowLogic 10.5.1 has been released.
Some of the major crashing issues with Logic have been addressed. Hopefully, those experiencing crashing with SD3 (I haven’t so I wouldn’t be in a position to tell) will find this update helps.
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Bear-Faced CowI have no formula. If I find a beat I like, I’ll jam to it while recording it in Logic. Other times, I will simply record something into Logic and let it do the dirty work of figuring out things like tempo and build around that. Other times, I will record something into my phone and eventually work with it when the inspiration hits. The common element, however, is to just record and don’t judge it. You might be surprised to find that something that didn’t work out so great on guitar might sound fantastic on piano, or some other instrument.
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Bear-Faced CowCreating a groove in SD3 from scratch can be as simple as creating an empty region on the track and drawing in the beat using the grid editor. The trick is to make it sound like a drummer, to which there are plenty of videos online demonstrating this.
Alternatively, you can also modify grooves from the library using the Edit Play Styles and/or The Grid Editor to come up with something more of your own.
Plenty of ways to expand your groove library without busting the bank.
However, as much as I am programming my own grooves and have enjoyed doing it for many years, I will admit to partaking in some of the flash sales by Toontrack when they will offer a groove pack for $10. I have gotten some decent finds.
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Bear-Faced CowLogic is just a DAW. There is no mapping outside of a Drummer track, which you indicated you aren’t. Either you’ve selected a different mapping in SD3 within Logic than Standalone, or you’re actually filtering something in Logic. It’s most likely the former since you said everything works with Drummer.
Figuring out what is happening in your system is a one-time thing and hardly a waste. However, you’re not willing to attempt anything, then we can’t help you.
jord
Bear-Faced CowIt’s not that difficult to find out. It could be as simply as the map you are using. Check to see what MIDI is being input. Record a track in Logic and it will show you what’s in the piano roll and the event list.
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Bear-Faced CowAre you applying SD3 to a software instrument track or a Drummer track? The setup would be different between the two.
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Bear-Faced CowThis only seems possible within SD3 if you are using Cubase as your DAW, and even there, it’s 32 mono channels. However, this can be accomplished within DAWs such as Logic, and you can save a template of it to save yourself time in the future. I demonstrated how to do this in Logic in another thread.
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Bear-Faced CowChange the location and copy your presets to the new location.
I have my locations pointing to my Google Drive for both my desktop and my laptop to share presets amongst other user items. That way, when I create or update a preset, it will appear on the other machine.
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