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MIDI is just a bunch of note data depicting which articulations are triggered. It has nothing to do with any kit itself.

If you haven’t changed any of the mappings, it should be exported as an extended General MIDI file to which most apps could use straight away. Aside from a few articulations, he should have no real problem applying kit pieces. If he’s applying it through Logic, he probably already has a software instrument set up, since MIDI doesn’t make any sounds. You’re not doing any real favours splitting it up. In fact, if he wants to do that, he can take your file in Logic and explode it into several regions with a single key command.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

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If you hear sounds normally on your drum brain when playing fast, then I am willing to bet that you are wasting your money buying a new harness, unless you feel more comforted having a spare. Your drum brain will play and transmit what it picks up. The fact that you have already indicated that you can audibly hear it is more proof that it probably is not your cable. I highly doubt the USB port on your drum brain is bad, but there is always that possibility.

That would lead to the chain to your computer. Just because you enabled safe mode doesn’t mean that you have eliminated everything that could be stealing from it. MIDI lag could be from something as subtle as the SpotLight daemon and too much hard disk traffic, to an underlying launchdaemon using CPU stealing technologies such as Java. I’ve had similar issues running other MIDI controllers (remember that a eDrums are nothing more than a MIDI controller to a computer) and had to find everything getting in the way.

As I said, providing some specs on your computer and your chain might provide some insight. Otherwise, it’s hard to help.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It doesn’t sound like latency. Latency is more constant and is more buffer related. This seems more like a processing bottleneck preventing CoreMIDI from receiving the information in a timely manner.

Need more information on your MBP along with anything else that might be hooked up to it. There may be also be some underlying processes stealing resources holding back your drum information from being read.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Are you installing using the Product Manager?

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

This could be dependent on the preset that you are using. Some of the FX will produce noise as part of their gain structure. ZIP your Logic project (remove any audio tracks) and post it so we can have a look.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Save your kits as a user preset. It will contain your settings.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Trust me, how I wound up employed by Apple felt just as comical. However, they recognized my passion as a software developer and gave me all sorts of resources, so I am grateful for the 5 years I was there. Not to mention that they knew how to throw a party back then. LOL!

Despite not really knowing about SD at the time (SD2 wasn’t out yet), I did know Drumkit From Hell. Despite how good it sounded, it didn’t really fit a song that I was writing at the time, so I didn’t go that route. Like I said, it was the Andy Johns kits that kept me in BFD at the time. I even tried to recreate the EQ curves for the main libraries, but it was also the recording chain into the Neve console that made it shine and it made me realize how important it was to get the recording right at the source. I sometimes miss using it these days, but now I have so many great engineers, as well as studios, to choose from as far as drums go. That seems to have a greater importance to me now as I feel my musical tastes feel like they are starting to become a little more eclectic these days.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I actually had to be dragged over to a Mac kicking and screaming over 30+ years ago, when I suddenly found myself employed by Apple (story in itself). Been a Mac user ever since.

I never owned SD2. I was a long-time BFD user and beta-tester (and was using all sorts of software and hardware prior – never really heard of Toontrack at the time). That’s actually how I met Rail (the Van Halen mixer guy)… aside from mixing great bands, he had a “whacky” idea of creating drum libraries of famous engineers, and when I discovered that the first library to come out was Andy Johns, I found myself getting it and raved about it on the forums which caught Rail’s attention. In time, we were speaking on a regular basis and I helped him put together the back-end of his web site at the time and in return, got more drum libraries from him (Joe Barresi and Jim Scott). He also gave me lots of mixing tips to which I use and share this day.

Based on those drum libraries, my switch to SD3 was a no-brainer. I just had to listen to some of the audio examples to hear music in the drums, rather than bombastic noise (one thing I criticized BFD’s libraries on). Mind you, I was halfway out the door when EZD2 was released (I was already starting to use other drum libraries because they sounded like music)… I was so hooked on the Edit Play Styles feature that I bought it right away. I also like the fact that the plug-ins available inside SD3 are quite good and I have gotten good drum mixes out of them. I also like the fact that they have been listening to us as far as feature requests go. Considering I get a lot of mileage out of this software, I wouldn’t be surprised if I stick with it for a long time.

Mom stories another time… must play some guitar. 😀

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

One of the demos in this pack is fairly close to what you’re looking for.

https://www.toontrack.com/product/reggae-beats-midi/

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

You answered your own question, more or less… it is material dependent because all boiling down to your kit piece choices as well as the how to process them all depends on the song.

If you want a starting point, try re-creating some of your favourite drum mixes, even if it is just for the fun of it. That will not only give you decent starting point for the song you have in mind, but will also provide good practice. If you have difficulty finding a good start, looking to a tutorial such as:

https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Superior-Drummer-3-Recreating-the-Legends-of-Drums?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Targeted+Product+Catalog&fbclid=IwAR3tcGxl-6OH180f5qQRnK04vbnOAYeeQBM2j2HSdnnypO54tp0HvzMbP8g

Lots of good ideas in there to start from…

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

At the moment, loading EZD projects don’t seem to be possible. I believe it is on the feature request forum.

For now, if you want the MIDI from EZD2 drum track in SD3, you should be able to either drag the the MIDI from EZD2’s track to SD3’s or export the drum track as MIDI and import it into SD3.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

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Did you trying resetting and rescanning the plug-ins in Logic’s Plug-in Manager? Chances are the AU Cache got “stuck” during the re-install. As long as nothing went wonky during the install, re-scanning may be all that is necessary.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

Did you trying resetting and rescanning the plug-ins in Logic’s Plug-in Manager? Chances are the AU Cache got “stuck” during the re-install. As long as nothing went wonky during the install, re-scanning may be all that is necessary.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Thanked by: spitakiss

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The settings are applied destructively when you select the next kit piece. Everything that you have applied are in the grid, but the sliders are reset to to their default positions.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Yeah, I’m definitely on the other end of the musical spectrum when it comes to guitar and songwriting. Lately, I’ve been more enthralled with old R&B, blues and other older stuff with a groove. If anything, I’ve been using my unfortunate COVID situation to not only keep my day skills sharp, but my guitar techniques. This dog ain’t never too old to learn new tricks. 🙂

I’m starting to challenge myself more and more by picking a random groove in SD3 as well as kit preset and then play the first thing that comes to my head. With the new version of Logic, I feel more encouraged to just get some ideas down and not worry if they will become a song or not. Some of them don’t happen right away. However, I can now play more of a game of chance with the live cell feature in Logic. It’s something I would have never thought have using before, despite the methodology being around with Ableton (I was unfortunately associating it with EDM and Hip-Hop).

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

And as far as the article goes (sorry, just thought of it now), never start off by listening to something loud. That will affect both your perception and possibly the way you are physically hearing the mix. This will affect the outcome. Always start at a low level and once you get it, then listen to it at a comfortable level. Make any adjustments after your ears have had a chance to “decompress”.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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