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[Jordan Chilcott]

Are you bouncing the output channel or the individual mic channels? The individual mic channels are pre-mixer, thus you won’t get any effects. If you’re bouncing via Logic, you may want to check your track routing between SD3 and Logic.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

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Select the sidestick articulation in the articulations dropdown and you can adjust its volume separately.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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• This post was modified 7 years ago by Jordan Chilcott.

Select the sidestick articulation in the articulations dropdown and you can adjust its volume separately.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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• This post was modified 7 years ago by Jordan Chilcott.

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[Jordan Chilcott]

Are you pushing up the mixer channel or the bleed levels?

You can always re-route the ride to its own channel and then add some gain to it.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

If you’re referring to something along the lines of the into hi-hat to Steve Miller Band’s “Take the Money and Run”, all you need is one of the open articulations followed by a close articulation. You can adjust the timing to suit. You would want to disable snapping to the grid for this.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

Sun_11 wrote:

Hi,

Are you referring to: Apple >Logic Drum Dit Designer?

If so, I have tried that and it does not work well with Logic X Drummer.

Is there a Midi Map specifically for Logic X Drummer?

I use it quite often (my most recent song uses it). It works very well with Superior Drummer. The only thing it doesn’t account for are the future hit instruments, but those can be mapped in easily. What specifically are you experiencing with that map?

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

NI’s Abbey Road drums sound decent, but I find them too restrictive in that you’re basically stuck with one kit or the other and have no ability to customize it, short of changing snares (and even that’s rather limited). Mind, it was NI’s libraries that made me realize that there were better sounding drums than what I had.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

Just because they were produced before SD3, doesn’t mean they’re not useful anymore. Although I more or less started with SD3, I bought a whole bunch of SDXs because I love their sound and use them. C&V is one of them that I’m using right now on one song and Progressive Foundry is being used on another song.

FYI, Rock Foundry is SD3 specific and is often my go-to SDX.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

Thunderbolt 3 runs on USB-C. OWC has a few drives to choose from.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

I know on a Mac you can create a symlink in SD3’s preset folder to point to wherever you’d like and SD3 would never know the difference. Not sure if a shortcut in Windows would work in the same manner.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

A Drum Designer map for Logic exists in SD3 in the dropdown. I use it with SD3 with very little issue (only mods i ever need are for future hit instruments).

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

When I’m working with drum parts within SD3, I don’t need to open a DAW. And, considering that I work with more than one DAW, I can use it in any one of them without concern for the drum part. Not to mention that I get a bit more out of the SD3’s editing than I do out of my DAWs as far as drum parts.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

Considering that he mentioned Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, we already know what he’s referring to.

There’s also a video showing how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnpoAURfeBo

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Jordan Chilcott]

ChristopherDuncan wrote:

While I may one day go to the trouble of building a kit in SD from the ground up, part of the appeal of Toontrack products is ease of use. Both EZ and SD are excellent products and very, very easy to get good sounds without having to reinvent the wheel. Which types of sounds is another story.

EZ’s stock rock kits come prepared for heavy 80s rock right out of the box. SD’s stock rock kits come prepared for metal right out of the box. Unless I’m missing something, it completely neglects the 80s rock style I’m looking for, and that EZ has. So, in terms of the pre-built kits, it feels like paying for the flagship product and losing something that the entry level product included.

Admittedly, classic rock is an ancient art form these days. If 90% of your market wants metal, then it makes sense to heavily weight your product to metal. However, since EZ wasn’t so heavily weighted to metal, it was a surprise to me that SD is (something I didn’t discover until I’d spent the money and installed the product).

So far, the only options I see are to use the EZ kits and lose the additional capabilities that I bought SD for, or build a custom kit from scratch instead of using a pre-built stock kit, something I bought Toontrack products in general for.

There isn’t really any dark secret to getting an 80’s Classic Rock sound. Most 80’s drums used either short reverbs with longer ones for special effects, or compressed room ambient channels (or a mixture of both) underneath the drums. Considering the era, adding some tape and a hint of distortion goes a long way. As far as which kits to apply, that might depend on the song. Set up a mix template and try the various kits within it until you find something that works, and then tweak it from there.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Jordan Chilcott]

Mark Frey wrote:

Good grief, that’s a ridiculous UI choice. Why is this MORE difficult than it was in SD2??? I should not have to import the track into SD3–the whole point of a plugin is that it plays the track recorded in the DAW.

Sorry, but as a user who frequently programs drums within Logic, it is far easier with SD3 when it comes to internal bouncing. Aside from being able to bring in variations of my programming into multiple tracks within SD3, I find the both the edit play styles and grid editor extremely handy in putting the final touches on a rhythm track. From there, I can choose to bounce the finished track as I please. My overall workflow with other drum software was not that different prior to SD3. They just didn’t have the same tools.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

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[Jordan Chilcott]

Told you the drums were amazingly recorded.

The UAD plug-ins still come in handy. I’ve often fed the drums through the Fairchild 670 as well as a Studer A800. The one song I’m working on has the SSL Bus Compressor & ATR-102 plug-ins on the output bus. That helps glue the whole together.

jord

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