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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the bug report!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

We will add more features to the Time Signature and Tempo editors, so you will be able to copy/paste settings from one track to another. Until then – John’s suggestion will do the trick.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@sj1 said:
I’d like to know if after I’ve built a song in SD3 using the Song Creator and the Song Track, will I be able to drag that over to Cubase 9 and have all the sections (Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, etc.) be labeled as such inside of my Cubase project.

You have to drag the MIDI files one by one. If you select them all and drag – they will merge into one big file. You could, of course, do that and afterwards cut it up inside your DAW.

Also, can a song in SD3 using the Song Creator be exported as a standard MIDI file (SMF)?

To export MIDI files, drag and drop them from the track, or press Track menu and “Export Song as MIDI File”. This will save a .MID file, following SMF (e.g. the MIDI standard file format).

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[Henrik Ekblom]

That is a drawback of how Logic works – it won’t let you drag MIDI to other places, like plugins.

This is the easiest way to get MIDI from Logic to SD3:
– Set SD3 to “Follow host”
– In SD3 – record enable the song track (the button with a red circle below the song track)
– Press play in Logic, so the MIDI (on Logic’s track) is played. It will be recorded into SD3!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

We will take a look at this, and reply when it’s done!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The presets are saved with various articulations turned off, since they can be heavy on RAM. If you’d like to have the ruffs enabled I would recommend that you set up the preset as you like it and save it as a User Preset.

It would however be a useful feature to be able to let the user decide that “no matter what preset I load, load the ruffs – if they exist”. We will take note of that!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Simply click another groove, but not its play button, while one groove is playing will make it continue!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Not currently – but it is one of the things we are looking at to implement!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Yes, it is a bug (on Mac) that causes the preset to load when you select “Select Parts…”. It will be fixed for the next version. As John said – pressing Alt (option) when clicking the preset will bring up the Select Parts popup without loading the preset.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@Mich J said:
1. When exporting from superior drummer 3, it’ll export with mono tracks and stereo tracks but when using superior drummer three as a plug-in, it doesn’t give you an option to route any of the outputs to a mono track. Am I doing something wrong?

The route out to Mono option was removed in Superior Drummer 3. We have had some requests to put it back so we are looking at that!

2. Are kick drums, snare drum’s supposed to be recorded in mono, mixed in mono or is this overrated?

A mono signal that gets sent to a stereo bus will sound the same – the same audio will be played in both stereo channels. The only time you’ll get a difference how it sounds is if you apply a stereo effect that does different things to left and right channel.

3. I understand that the recordings were made using 11.1 but do the room microphones compensate for surround sound using stereo speakers. Other words, will I get “any” of the surround sound with distance and balance using stereo speaker?

The extra room mics (that can be used for surround mixing) can also be used in stereo mixing. It will give you more room to work with – which enables you to create a bigger sound from the drums. Also – even if you are in stereo you can add “depth” to your mixes – where room ambience is one of the keys to do that.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If the x-drums has share MIDI notes of other drums in SD2, they should have become stacks on the drums.
For example: in SD2 you had a tambourine added as an x-drum, and it played on MIDI note 38, the same as the snare center articulation. When you load that in SD3, the tambourine will be added as a stack on the snare.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Superior Drummer 3 follows the play head from the DAW. In a coming update it will follow the play head even if the DAW isn’t playing when you move the play head.

We can’t make the DAW follow Superior Drummer 3’s play head though. No plug-in can tell the DAW where to put it’s play head. Generally – the DAW is in command, and the plug-ins listen 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Ok, I am starting to understand your workflow. Where do you change kit – in the preset menu, under “Part Presets / Drumkits”?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If I set the starting bar to -2 in Logic Pro X, Superior Drummer 3 will still be in sync, it’s just that the 2 first bars aren’t visible. Is it like that in your DAW?
Do you need to have the 2 bars (-2 and -1) visible in Superior Drummer 3 to accomplish your task? E.g. you will record something there, and/or you do need it in the stand alone?

I ask these questions to know your situation – which is important before doing design changes…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Hold shift key and drag!

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