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[drumjack52]

davidbk1974 wrote:

This is what happens when I try it. I get the Kick drum set up correctly, then I try to do the exact same thing with the snare, but it makes the first track not work, saying “No Mics Routed”…

I’ve tried posting a screenshot, but my computer isn’t allowing it for some reason. It’s just a barrel of monkeys over here.

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You’re having problems because you’re doing things all wrong. As I said before – even if you could get it to work the sound would not be right. There’s no real world recording engineer or mixer/producer that would try and do what you’re trying to do. They treat a kit as a whole instrument and not separate pieces. And unless you turn it all the way down the bleed will get in the way. You want the drums to sound as if they are in the same space as each other and your way won’t do that.

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John Patrick wrote:

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I uninstalled and reinstalled Superior Drummer 3 and Acid Pro 11.

Issue solved.

Thanks.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Superior Drummer 3 and Acid Pro 11.

Issue solved.

Thanks.

In what order? I doubt this fixed your problem.

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[drumjack52]

I looked at the Acid page and don’t see that it supports 3rd party plugins. I see that yes it does have 3rd party plugins but seems like those are purpose-built for Acid. Also it talks about using Rewire for shuttling data (MIDI and audio) between programs. You may have to run SD3 in a host and then Rewire to Acid. Actually even Propellerhead Reason (the developers of Rewire) don’t even use that protocol anymore. For that matter is SD3 even compatible with Acid? I did some checking via DuckDuckGo on Acid and most consider it a ‘buggy mess’ in their words.

I used Acid back in the day when it was still owned by Sony and never considered it good for anything other than looping. Yes some used it as a daw but I had better choices at the time like Cakewalk Sonar.

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[drumjack52]

The usual purpose of overhead mics on a kit is to capture the essence of the whole kit especially the pieces that are not close-mic’d. It doesn’t really capture room tone as such. What you want are the ambient mics. Actually doing what you want will do away with a drum kit sounding like a total instrument all in the same room at the same time. Oh and don’t forget about the bleed as well.

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[drumjack52]

A good powered USB hub might work. The reason I’m saying a powered hub is that I’m assuming your external SSD is bus powered. Take a look at the Other World Computing web site as they specialize in Mac stuff.

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[drumjack52]

Cool that you found a solution.

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Mark King wrote:

If you mean a single kit then I don’t think that is possible.

You’re right: can’t be done

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Dave_78 wrote:

Thanks to everybody for your help. I appreciate the time and thought that went into your answers. Regards,-Dave

Would love to know what you did to solve the problem. It could well help others.

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Brad wrote:

drumjack52 wrote:

Shootie wrote:

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

I’ve never seen an 88 note keyboard with an octave up/down button.

Nektar LX88 (I have one) has this feature, moves the entire keyboard up/down a full octave.

Reply To: Superior Drummer 3/Orchestral Percussion — need help to access version: 3.3.7
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Okay but that doesn’t answer the OP’s question IF he wants to stay with his existing keyboard. He could always remap inside SD3 and create a couple of MIDI presets to do the deed.

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Shootie wrote:

Octave up/down button on your keyboard?

I’ve never seen an 88 note keyboard with an octave up/down button.

Jack
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Kade K wrote:

From what I can tell based on my research Savatage’s drummer at that time used a Mapex kit with 3 kicks. Not sure on the exact model though.

I think Pink’s drummer Mark Schulman used 3 kicks.

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Kade K wrote:

Thanks for the reply! I was looking a death and darkness and thought that may be the one. Especially some presets on the death portion.

Once you get beyond the presets it’s an amazingly versatile library for just about anything (Rush/Metallica/rock/mainstream pop, etc.). I use the DW kit and mix in ProTools using multi-out from SD3. The only thing I wish it had was 4 rack toms as I need that to cover Rush music. I have to put in an Xdrum and pitch it to fit in. There are kits in other SDX’s that have 4 rack toms but they’re concert toms (no reso head).

Jack
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Death and Darkness – it’s surprisingly versatile. Savatage – the forefathers of Trans Siberian Orchestra

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[drumjack52]

Right click on any kit piece and select ‘search for instrument’. When the next window opens up clear the ‘x’ in the ‘instrument’ column and you will see ‘cowbell’. Click on that and in the windowlet below that row of windows you’ll see a list of cowbells. Click on one and  then click on ‘replace instrument’ in the bottom right of that windowlet. You should also hear a sample of what it sounds like.

If you want to add another kit piece instead of replacing an existing one click on ‘add instrument’ in the drums tab and do the same dance I outlined above.

And give my regards to Christopher Walken.

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[drumjack52]

Where do I find the smoothing feature?

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