Creating 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.
Logic 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.
It’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.
This 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.
Change 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.
If you are going to export one of the presets as stems, you will need to re-create the processing on a drum bus in your DAW. There will be some differences since different plug-ins add different characteristics.
The good news is that you won’t have to buy a new computer to fix this issue. The bad news is that you have some work ahead of you to fix it (or maybe that’s good news… who knows).
It really has nothing to do with the bleed in SD3 itself. FONTD is being called in order to grab font information for display purposes. If you have a corrupt font, FONTD does not go quietly into the night. It will try to read that corrupt font over and over. Only way to get it to stop is to locate and remove the corrupt font. Luckily, it is only slowing the system down. I’ve had cases where it crashed apps because I had some old fonts in the system as a result of being a long time Mac user.
FONTD running normally here activating all surround channels on default kit. Sudden high FONTD usage is an indication of a corrupt font. If the validation in Font Book doesn’t uncover the bad font, you may have to try removing font families one by one and test.
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