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[Henrik Ekblom]

Right click on the ride and in the menu select More > Route Instrument Microphones…

In the top you’ll see the Close Mics; those are the main microphones that captured the sound of the Ride. You can select to route them to a new separate channel, in the list below the header “Mixer Channels”. Some libraries have more than one overhead microphone(s), so you can in those send all the overhead microphones to their own channels, or gather them in one new mixer channel.

Reply back here if you still can’t make it work 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

When in Superior Drummer 3: load the library that the Superior Drummer 2 preset used when saving the Combined Preset. There should be a menu folder called “SD2 User Presets” in the Drums and Mixer preset menu. The preset has to be placed in the folder where Superior Drummer 2 saved it for this menu to be enabled.

in the screenshot I had NY Avatar loaded, since I had user that library when I saved a preset in Superior Drummer 2.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the kind words! Rock on !

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Any ideas why it’s broken? Just asking to check that it’s not caused by a bug we need to fix 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can’t drag audio files to the song track of Superior Drummer 3.
When you use the Song Track in Superior Drummer 3, Logic’s timeline won’t follow that (plugins can’t tell Logic where to put it’s time bar).

So it like you said – you should use the time bar in Logic to set the start point for the playback, and have SD3 in Follow Host mode so it plays along with Logic.
I often set up a loop point in Logic to the place where I want to edit, and in combination with using keyboard shortcuts for moving the time header (the keys of the num pad for example), it works pretty smoothly!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@optera said:
Can Toontrack prove that this issue is a avid problem? I don’t thing so.  

Well, to prove anything regarding software bugs is pretty hard, but other plugins does also has this problem in Pro Tools. Here’s a reddit thread about this:

Opening project and instrument track is disabled
byu/jmgotsoul inprotools

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I think we have answered this question before. Check that the Superior Drummer 3 instance in Pro Tools is enabled, and not mute etc.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

We need some information to track this problem down:
– Is it any difference if you run Superior Drummer 3 in a DAW (like Cubase, Pro Tools etc)?
– Do you use the latest version of the plugin and the libraries (best checked with the Product Manager)?
– Is it any difference if you just use Superior Drummer 3 without the e-kit set up as a MIDI device?
– Is it any difference if you use another audio device driver (if possible)?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can take an instrument that you edit in the Drums tab (set pitch, envelopes, add stacks etc) and save that as a User Instrument (found in the *More* menu). You can load that to another kit or library.
Note that the effects that are applied in the mixer won’t be saved into this instrument. You can save the individual mixer channels if you want to in the Mixer tab.

Try it out and reply back here if there’s anything more you want to know!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

You can right click any instrument and in the menu select “Copy MIDI”. Then select another block and right click any instrument and choose “Paste MIDI” to get the same playing.

You can also find all the different playstyles for the Shaker, Maracas and Tambourine in the Browser of EZdrummer 2 (or Grooves if you are using Superior Drummer 3). You can preview them and right click the groove you want and choose “Copy”, then paste it into any song block on the song track.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@tonyparis9 said:

I agree – I am having a totally insane time bouncing on this program. All I want is to bounce EXACTLY what I hear in the mixer section to audio files and I am just wasting night after night with no results.Frustrated  

See John’s reply: https://www.toontrack.com/forum/requests-and-feedback/final-bounce-is-so-frustrting/

If it doesn’t work, reply in that thread and we will help you further!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@ColdSteel_1 said:
I would like to be able to compliment the very beautiful Gretsch and Premier kits by copying their toms into the empty tom positions and then detuning the copies. But that doesn’t seem possible now. Could that be considered for a future release?  

If you mean to add the same toms already used as new positions – go to Add Instrument, select Search for Instrument and load the toms you want and tune them! Remember to press Process to get a natural sounding tuning.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you press the Shift key on your keyboard while dragging, the notes will be moved between the lanes without changing in time.
We will add more control over this in the next update!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

To expand John’s answer: to get MIDI from EZdrummer 2 to Superior Drummer 3 – you can also save the MIDI in EZdrummer 2 to your User MIDI folder, and it will show up in the User MIDI folder in Superior Drummer 3. The advantage of doing it this way is that the blocks will be kept separately, and their type (Verse, Chorus etc) will be kept, e.g. the song structure will look the same.

We wanted to add more support for importing EZdrummer 2 User Presets into Superior Drummer 3, but it was complicated since the background of the programs differ in lots of ways. We have noted is a feature request from our users, and we I hope we can solve it in a future update. Thanks for the feedback!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@Luke Dunn said:
Can the Groves library list on the far left be sorted alphabetically? within its heading categories of course.
And can that column be extended wider?, so much content is squished to the left hand side of the screen and i have a large amount of empty space on the right.

thanks
Luke  

I’ll take a note of this as a feature request. Thanks for the contribution!

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