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[Henrik Ekblom]

Are you using it in a DAW?

Can you explain what you did before they got visually misplaced – like quantized, added swing, or similar?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Superior Drummer 3? Yes. If you are following a host you need to change the tempo in the host. If you want to change the tempo of SD3, just change the tempo right of the play buttons below the song track.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Seppo Lahtinen wrote:

Hi, same or similar problem here also. I try to do custom clicks with my own samples. I create 4 song tracks, each’s length is one bar and in each there are two lines of notes. Then I save project. When opened again, the first line of notes in first tracks are missing but other three tracks are ok. I put missing notes to first track again and save project. When opened next time the first track is ok, but notes are missing from the other three tracks’ first line. When corrected those, the next time missing notes are in first track…

Any progress in your investgations, Henrik?

Thanks!

Seppo

Reply To: MIDI notes disappearing and refusing to commit in grid editor version: 3.1.4
Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)

We will soon release an update. When that has been released, try it and report how it works out!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the report. It sounds strange that it doesn’t work, since pressing the screens should just emulate a mouse click – which should play the drum when clicking, for example… I’ll try to dig into this, to see why it’s not working.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Shalumble wrote:

I have just bought the latest version of Superior Drummer 3 and sadly that does not work with my touchscreen.  I can click on the drums with a mouse but the touchscreen does nothing both when Superior Drummer 3 is launched stand alone or from my DAW.  Touchscreen works fine in other applications.

Really disappointing – it’s the kind of thing I would have like to find out in a trial (but there isn’t one in Superior Drummer 3) – I hope they fix this but is still an issue 3 years on from this post!

The same post is answered here (so we can keep the discussion in one place): https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/sd3-menus-and-touchscreen/?view=all#post-2495468

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Shalumble wrote:

I can click on the drums with a mouse but the touchscreen does nothing

What touchscreen system are you using? Windows on a Surface?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you post the MIDI file you are using in Tap2Find so we can check it out? Just drag the file from the Drop Zone and post it here.

Also screenshot the resultslist, or write the top % hit in the post. If you have some files you feel it should have found, write that down too.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

There is no way to disable the bass note, it’s played in the MIDI by the creator – not added by the software.

But I’ll write it down as a feature request, since it may be handy to have such a function!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Ian Cashman wrote:

Does SD3 have any equivalent feature?

Thanks for the feedback. SD3 has a song creator that works just like the EZdrummer 2 dito!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

If you are referring to the EZX, then you need EZdrummer 2.

From the bottom of https://www.toontrack.com/product/death-metal-ezx/ :

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.

2.3 GB free disk space, 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

A working EZdrummer 2.1.8 or Superior Drummer 3.1.4 (or above) installation.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Generally – if it’s a small change (like some effects or mixer channels just being turned up or down in volume) it can be done in the same SD3 instance, and controlled with macro knobs.

But if it’s a big change – like different drums should play and the mixer is totally different, I would just add a new instance of SD3 for those parts.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

It sounds like Garageband is using the song key information stored in the MIDI files, which it shouldn’t when you are using drums.

If you just reset the song key to D, does it sound correct then?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The alternating feature will only work within the library the kicks comes from, e.g. you can’t load the Metal Foundry kicks to Progressive Foundry and have them automatically alternate.

You can make them alternate in the MIDI however. In the grid editor, select the kick lane. Go to “Select” > “1/8” (or any other value if you have another resolution on your double kicks). Drag the selected kicks to your added instrument lane in the bottom (the other kick). Press Shift key while you drag vertically, to not alter the timing of the kicks.

I’ll write it down as a feature request to be able to alternate hits between kicks, even if they’re not used in the original library.

Ps. I noticed in your image that the added kick was the same as the one in the kick position (both are Right kicks). You can load the Left kick instead, to get the true left/right sound.

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