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[Henrik Ekblom]

Without being sure, I would guess that there’s something going on with the disk – or somewhere on the USB chain (motherboard, the ports or similar…)

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the feedback! Some ideas are already being worked on, the rest are noted!

Regarding “8. Ability to use any Time Signature in Song track (e.g., 7/2, 37/64, etc.)” – until this is fixed, by going into Track menu > “Edit Time Signature…” you have more detailed options, and can for example set 7/2.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Haha… It is, actually, a good idea, and we have thought of that too (boy, haven’t we thought of everything?)
If we had endless time we could make the software complete in all aspects 🙂 We try to prioritize all the things we can do and work accordingly to that. Hopefully we’ll soon be able to focus on such areas, as the Preset menus…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@vinster_60445 said:
I have two modules. Will SD3 be able to map both “brains”‘in one instance or will I need to run two like I did with SD2? I looked through the manual, did not see anything that will allow me two. Toontrack Solo would have an add drummer feature.  

Superior Drummer 3 can only have one mapping at a time. Are they different brands? Possibly, you can map one of the brains to match the other, and set up the mapping in Superior to match them? Maybe not a good solution for you though 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you please check the external disk, so it’s not faulty?

This link will tell you how to use Windows’s built in disk check, but you can of course use other software for the task

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2641432/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-windows-7

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you specify what you mean by “libraries disappear”? You can’t use the library in Superior Drummer 3? They installed files disappear from disk?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you please upload the project file here so the coders can have a look at it?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

One thing I tend to do is sweep the frequencies with a bell filter, with steep Q value (10) and high gain (15 db), to find the frequency where the “ping” sound is (normally between 200 and 1000 hz). When I have found the frequency (you’ll know – it sounds horrible ), I turn the bell filter into a notch filter (the button left of “bell”) to completely remove it. Sometimes it sounds better with the “ping”, sometimes without…

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@Mario Krušelj said:
@Henrik, I think what ahrayeph wants is to be able to completely clear the mapping of ALL hits for the currently loaded kit. So, not in MIDI in/E-drums section, but in the “MIDI Mapping Key” area to the very right of SD3 GUI.

I agree that this would be useful. It would also be useful if we could directly delete a mapping there, instead of only being able to drag&drop around swapping the mapping keys. Sometehing like Alt+click on a key to remove mapping from the clicked key? Shift/Ctrl+click on keys for a regular contiguous/non-contiguous multiple selection of keys, then Alt+click on deleting all that are selected? Definitely a workflow enhancer!

Some kitpieces have more than 15 aliases on the keyboard, often (I’m looking at you, ride bow hit!). Removing them one by one by first selecting a kitpiece, then expanding the hit type in MIDI Mapping panel, then right-clicking and removing each one is a long and arduous process. It’s also RSI inducing, which is not nice! 🙂  

Thanks for the feedback! I will take a look at the design and see what I can cook up 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Currently the only options to are to start with 0 or 1, but I’ll take a note of your idea. Thanks for the feedback!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

@andrushkiwt said:
Why doesn’t the panel scroll along with the dragging movement??!!?!  

This is a bug that will be fixed in a coming update!

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@ahrayeph said:
So what I’m requesting – pretty please with a cherry on top – is one of two things : if it would at all be possible, I would ask for the options of choosing either mono or stereo channels inside of SD3, with this being mirrored in the DAW of one’s choice, or, if that is too hard to do on a reasonably short term, to reinstate the option to turn the multichannel outs to mono, like in SD2. I have to confess the former option is more appealing to me than the latter, but ultimately, I don’t know how easy or hard it is to put this into SD3’s code.

This can be solved in some DAW:s (Pro Tools for example) by selecting only Left (or Right) from Superior Drummer’s outputs (thus capturing a mono signal). We have noticed that it doesn’t seem to be easy to do in Cubase for example, so we will discuss the mono output option, and see what we can do!

My second request pertains the MIDI mapping. While it’s easy to have everything close together in the GUI and the amount of tabs are reduced, I’m missing an option to clear all MIDI mapping to custom make your own, which was present inside SD2 as well.

Regarding this – Superior Drummer 3 has two ways of mapping/transforming MIDI:

1. The “MIDI in/E-drums” in Settings. Changes here are applied on incoming MIDI (from a DAW, e-drum kit etc).
2. The internal MIDI mapping/velocity etc. – found in the drums tab, in different Property Boxes on the right side. Changes here are applied after the incoming MIDI mapping, and applies to all MIDI being played (from external sources, but also all internal MIDI playing – on the Superior Drummer 3 track for example).

An example what the intended workflow is: You have e-drums hooked up to Superior Drummer 3. You set up the MIDI mapping for the kit in the settings page, since this mapping will always be active (even if you change (Drums and Mixer) presets, or even when you change Sound Library.

However – in one particular preset, you find that the snare velocity isn’t reacting to your e-drum snare like you want it to. You now change the velocity in the drums tab, since these changes only will apply to the currently selected preset.

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I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of the (quite complex) options in Superior Drummer 3 for MIDI mapping 🙂 When doing complete mapping overhauls – it is often a good idea to do this in the MIDI in/E-drums settings page, since you can save this as a mapping preset. Would you find it useful with an “Empty” MIDI mapping preset to start with?

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