[Ivo_10]

To be short what I did: Open SD3 standalone. In SD3 select your drum module as the audio output device so that you can hear the drums when you play the drums (on the kit or in SD3 UI) and your headphone is connected to the drum module. There should be no difference between hit the drumkit or hit a drum in the SD3 UI.
After this you can switch back the audio output device setting in SD3 ( to be save, before reverting the settings you can close and reopen SD3 with this setting so it can be saved, I can’t remember if I did this ) to your ASIO driver or whatever you had and the velocity settings persist in being OK (at least this happen with my setup). Good luck.

• This post was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Ivo_10.

[Ivo_10]

I also had the problem of low volume comparing playing SD3 grooves and hitting my pads  on my TD-30.

The trick for me was the tip of Lukas Grumet:
I already connecting my TD-30 Sound Module to my computer directly via the USB port. (directly, not via an external interface). Then open the Audio/Midi Setup in SD3. I already have select the TD30 as my midi device but if not do it. For me what helps was selecting the TD30 as my audio (ASIO) device. Put your headphone in the TD30 and you get crystal clear, super loud sound (the same level as when plying the grooves in SD3).

But for me this was not what I want because I want to play SD3 via my Fireface UCX audio interface for mixing purposes and also, when using SD3 in my DAW  the audio output is controlled in your DAW and I don’t want to send all my DAW audio to the TD-30. So in SD3 I switched back the audio ASIO  device from TD30  to Asio Fireface USB driver (the driver of my Fireface UCX interface) and then the magic happens: the sound level persist.  Even after reboot or using SD3 in my DAW (Ableton) everything is OK. So it seems that in SD3, if you define in MIDI In/E-drums settings to use a preset like TD-30, SD3 not only set the right midi mapping that comes from your TD-30 but also wants to set the right midi audio output level and it seems it gets this info from what you define in your  Audio Midi settings in SD3 and in the case this is not set to TD30 it can be very low. Somehow SD3 persist this midi audio level in the preset and keep this setting even if you switch back the audio device output setting to your audio interface asio driver.
So now I can use my TD30 together with playback some SD3 grooves and the levels of my hits on the TD30 are the same as the level of the hits that comes from the SD3 groove midi playbacks. I use SD3 in both OSX and Windows and this solution works in both environment.

So I think you can’t blame SD3 for this. It is related to the audio interface you are using. I hope this solution also will work for everyone that has the same issue.

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