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[Henrik Ekblom]

Are you talking about EZdrummer 2 or Superior Drummer 3? 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The e-drum presets are only operating on the incoming MIDI. However, Superior Drummer 3 can’t know if the MIDI comes from the track of the DAW (Pro Tools for example), or from an E-kit, so we can’t only apply it on E-drums but not on MIDI from a DAW…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Are you using any external MIDI devices to play Superior Drummer 3 in real time (e-drums, keyboard etc)? If not, I suggest that you increase the buffer size and see how that works out. When I mix my songs I use something like 1024 buffer size, since the latency isn’t a problem in that scenario, and the CPU load is decreased…

Superior Drummer 3 is using slightly more CPU than SD2, but it shouldn’t be nowhere near several 100% of your computers CPU – if nothing drastic is going on (say you are using 100 EQ plugins and have them all opened, or similar)… Note that the CPU usage will increase while the Library and Drums and Mixer Presets are loading (as it is in your first screenshot). The CPU usage should decrease when it has finished the loading.

“First of all, I realize this is a pre sale forum but I guess Toontrack doesn’t like having an actual support form…” – there is a Superior Drummer 3 help forum at https://www.toontrack.com/forum/superior-drummer-3-support. Can’t you access that?

I am sorry that you are having these problems, but I assure you that we will try to help you to fix these issues!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Does this occur with different Libraries (if you have any other Toontrack libraries: SDXs or EZXs), and different Drums and Mixer presets?
Does this occur with other virtual instruments?
Do you use the latest version of SD3 (3.0.3)?
Do you have any preset loaded in MIDI IN/E-drum Settings?
If you export the MIDI from Pro Tools and import it into SD3’s song track and play it, does the MIDI note skipping disappear?

I ask these questions because I haven’t heard of any cases where Superior itself drops MIDI notes before, so there might be something that happens between Pro Tools and Superior…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I’ll notify the coders about this issue!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Henrik Ekblom]

@Mark Grace said:
SDX2 worked much better!!  

Do you know of anything in particular that SD2 does different here than SD3?
We have tried to make SD3 able to do the stuff SD2 could, regarding e-kits, and also add more features…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

We can’t comment on upcoming releases. I can, however, say that it won’t be released at the moment, since we focus on improving Superior Drummer 3.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Since the first output in Superior Drummer 3 (labeled 1/2) is both output 1 and 2, you need to send both the kick and snare to that output.
To separate them, hard pan (pan max) the kick left and hard pan the snare right. This way – the kick will be sent on mono channel 1, and the snare on mono channel 2.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

In EZdrummer 2 – record enable the track (the red record button next to the play button). Now if you play MIDI from GarageBand (that is placed on the EZdrummer 2 track) it will be recorded into EZdrummer 2!

You can also export the MIDI from Garageband to your desktop for example. Then you can drag the MIDI file from the desktop straight to EZdrummer 2’s song track.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

When you export MIDI files from S1, the MIDI mappings should be included in the file. In Superior Drummer 3, in the Track menu, you select to import a tempo map from a MIDI file!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Here’s a youtube video showing the process for you 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I can’t really say when the next update will come. It’s a pretty major update, so there’s a lot to do, and we must test it… But we are working as fast as we can 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Do you have any MIDI IN/e-drum preset enabled? That could cause the MIDI to sound different when playing in SD3 vs. playing in Studio One

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The product “Superior Drummer 3” (in the Product Manager) is the software, which is about 300 MB. The sound libraries are all named “Superior Drummer 3 Library…” 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It is not currently possible to rearrange the channels. However, we are aware of that it would be a useful feature, and we’ll take a note of your feature request. Thanks!

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