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[Henrik Ekblom]

The only things that may alter incoming MIDI information is the MIDI in settings.

So if I get you correctly, the choke information (Aftertouch) isn’t recorded into SD3?

How does it work if you record the MIDI to a DAW – does it work as it should?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The e-drum mappings are only applied for MIDI that comes in to SD3, from a DAW or from e-drums, not from the song track in SD3!

If you open the project you sent me, in SD3 standalone – do you get chokes on the cymbals?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

There are no MIDI Aftertouch values in the MIDI on the song track in the project you sent, so there can be no chokes of the cymbals. Do you have MIDI in a DAW, that plays simultaneously as the MIDI in SD3?

Another thing I noticed is that the MIDI notes are playing cymbals which aren’t loaded, meaning that another cymbal will play instead. The Cymbal 3 MIDI notes will trigger Cymbal 4 to play, and Cymbal 5 MIDI notes will trigger Cymbal 2 to play. Is this intentional?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

I couldn’t see any CC values in the posted MIDI file, and that’s how you choke cymbals in SD3. The CC values of a MIDI file can be seen in the Grid Editor. In the bottom, you can switch the velocity area to show CC values instead.

 

Channel Aftertouch will, by default, mute all ringing cymbals. This is how it can look when you mute all cymbals:

 

Aftertouch for a specific instrument will only mute that instrument. For example, in the screenshot below, only the Cymbal 2 will be muted. Cymbal 4 will continue to ring:

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Hm, I checked the MIDI file in Superior Drummer 3 but saw no MIDI data for choking, and the cymbal played without chokes… Can you save a Superior Drummer 3 project, which contains MIDI that has the problem, and post here?

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The update with the fix hasn’t been released yet. However I thought of a workaround that might ease things in the meantime:

• Select all the MIDI files on the song track and drag them (together) to the User MIDI folder in Grooves
• Create a new track tab
• Drag down the groove you created in the first step from User MIDI to the new song track tab
• You’ll now get a popup asking if you want to import time signature and tempo changes. Check those and you should get the time signature changes!
  • You can now erase the MIDI song block on this song track that you don’t want to keep, and continue to make the next super hit 🙂

 

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Ok. Someone from our crew will help you further with this issues, since I haven’t seen this problem before!

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[Henrik Ekblom]

To summarize; the “ghosted” instrument positions just means that nothing is loaded. If you click them and you hear a sound, it’s actually another instrument that makes the sound. This is because of instrument substitution – if nothing is loaded on a certain instrument, SD3 plays a similar instrument instead.

For example: if your tom 1 is empty and you click it, tom 2 will play instead. This is because when you play MIDI files with a tom fill for example, it shouldn’t just be quiet when tom 1 plays.

I hope my explanation was understandable 🙂

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This should be done in the DAW (Reaper). EZdrummer 2 doesn’t have controls to change individual MIDI notes. It has pre-done MIDI maps for different e-drum kits though. Superior Drummer 3 is the bigger version, which can individual MIDI mapping, amongst many other additional features.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Do you use EZdrummer in a DAW? Mac or Windows? I ask, because most DAWs has a virtual keyboard, which lets you play MIDI notes using the keyboard. And further, there are software that you run outside the DAW that makes it possible to play MIDI from the keyboard all the time – if you run EZdrummer 2 as a standalone for example…

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Douglas Hough wrote:

right click on measure marker bar

The time signature editor can also be found in the Track menu (top left corner above the track) 🙂

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[Henrik Ekblom]

The screenshot you posted is a Step Sequencer, which originally comes from how you used to program synthesizers and drum machines back in the days. It’s basically a grid editor, where the grid is locked so you only can place MIDI notes on fixed positions. It’s similar to use Snap in a grid editor, and set the resolution to 4ths or 8ths – which all DAWs can do 🙂 If you want a simple DAW on a Mac I would suggest Garageband.

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