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[Brooks H]

Olof Westman wrote:

While not being exactly on topic I still wanted to mention that since S3.1.3 you can change the path to where the user presets reside. It’s at the bottom of the Settings>Libraries/Paths page.

Hmm. This might be a better option for me. I can put them on my external SSD which is shared by both my computers. Thanks!

But I do need to get acquainted with the cloud. Manual backups are becoming a pain with a 2nd computer. I was thinking Dropbox.

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[Brooks H]

Greatly appreciated Bear-Faced Cow.

That’s why I suggest Toontrack implement their own cloud though. With Addictive Drums 2 for example, all I had to do was download the Cloud Sync portion of their app. It’s automated from there by simply clicking on the preset section of the GUI.

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[Brooks H]

Jeff wrote:

…Once I linked them to SD3, I had to find which drum in SD matched the corresponding drum in NI. Once I did that, the grooves just didn’t translate very well. Not impressed…

If you didn’t, apply the NI mapping; Click on the arrow on the right of the linked folder, go to MIDI In / Native Instruments and click Abbey Road Series. That will map the kit pieces for you. It should match perfectly.

 

Jeff wrote:

I just found a couple companies that have some very good Latin MIDI grooves. They are formatted for SD3 as well as several others.

They are:

Odd Grooves and Platinum Samples. I listened to both of them. I bought the Odd Groove Latin set. Really well played. Not Quantized in either companies Libraries.

 

Jeff

Operating system: Windows 10

I’ll check them out for some other stuff. The LP EZX is holding me off for now. The Latin grooves I need are more for percussion.

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[Brooks H]

@Henrik this worked except my remapped kick is not making the drag & drop to my DAW. I tried in both Logic and the MPC software to make sure. All other MIDI seems to be dropping fine.

My kick is on both A & A#.

Are you able to test this? Not sure if this is a bug or user error.

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[Brooks H]

Jeff wrote:

So where is information on linking these midi files from Native Instruments?

Operating system: Windows 10

Section 4.3, page 49 of the manual. Groove Tab / Menu / Folder / Add Linked Folder.

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[Brooks H]

Yes. I never used them either other than linking the grooves. I remember seeing some Latin grooves in the Vintage folder though I can’t say how good they were.

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[Brooks H]

You mention Native Instruments. Do you have the Abbey Roads series? I’m almost certain there are some Latin grooves in there.

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[Brooks H]

…And, it would be cool if they could do some behind the scenes mapping for the LP grooves to like instruments in Orchestral Percussion II. Bongos, Congas, shakers… I know all the articulations are not the same, but some help would be nice.

A MIDI pack for Orch Perc  I & II would be nice as well.

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[Brooks H]

Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

I believe all of your favourites are in that directory. I could be wrong, however, but I know the presets are.

All I can say is if you hate cloud drives, then you’re probably not using them to your advantage.

Between my computers, phone and tablet, the data I need is always accessible to me. I’m often playing with SD3 with my laptop when I am either on a plane or out of the house doing something. Once I hook up to the cloud, my presets and projects are shared with my main music computer ready for me to flesh them out.

jord

• This post was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

You’re right. I don’t use them much at all. This is the 1st time ever I’ve had a “road computer”. I’ve been backing up & sharing everything manually. Not too bad when it’s just projects. But favorites, presets and such, it’s becoming a pain.

Toontrack should consider having their own cloud. I just starting using Addictive Drums cloud for this same thing.

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[Brooks H]

Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

I believe one of the menu items in the User Presets is “Manage in Finder”. That will take you right to the preset in the ~/Library/Application Support/ directory.

And I could just copy that and save it in the same location on the other computer?

Any chance fovorited grooves are also in App Support?

Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

One way to share these with your other computers automagically is to move the presets directory to your cloud drive directory and set up a symlink (assuming MacOS) in the Toontrack preset directory pointing to cloud drive. Do the same on your other computer. In a few moments, your presets are shared between both computers.

I would love to automate this, but hate using cloud drives. I’ll see how (in)convenient the manual way is and go from there.

Thanks!

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[Brooks H]

+1, I went looking, knowing Toontrack had some given the Latin Percussion EZX. Nope! I purchased LP, mostly for the grooves, but I can never have enough drum/percussion sounds.

Jeff wrote:

I have a few from Native Instruments “Cuba”…

Have you linked these to SD3 or EZDrummer (not sure if EZD has this feature)? I would love to get these in SD3 to play with LP & Orchestral Percussion II.

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[Brooks H]

Henrik Ekblom wrote:

…If you enable the MIDI IN mapping, and first drag a Toontrack MIDI file to the Song Track then drag it to your DAW, it will be reverse-mapped (so it fits the current MIDI IN mapping)…

I could’ve sworn I tried this. Do I need to disable my MIDI In mapping before I drag to my DAW?

I’ll have to try this again. Once I get this to work, I’m happy.

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[Brooks H]

Solved!

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[Brooks H]

Must be.

Ehh well. I’ll manually fix what’s worth being fixed.

Would be nice if Toontrack looked into this though.

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[Brooks H]

I’ll be adding the BFD grooves to Addictive Drums 2. I’ll see if the inflated bar issue carries over there.

But the problem 1st arose when linking some Loop Loft grooves. And I have no problems with those in AD2.

The Loop Loft problem is not affecting as many grooves. A little time over several days and I should be able to manually fix these. But BFD had a LOT of grooves, and many of them are affected. I’m not up to manually addressing those.

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