[Jay]

Loading a new set for brushes won’t work – even though my new laptop loads REALLY fast.  I may need to switch back and forth in the middle of a song.

In that case, should I use two instances of SD3 loaded into a DAW like Reaper?  Can 16 GB of ram handle that well?

~Jay

[Jay]

thanks John.

I noticed that there is a midi note for a brush hit. If I load that hit, will it also load all mic bleeds?

I could do a bank change on the Zendrum to make the needed note number changes on each pad. I think bank changes are really fast. If the bank change is too slow, or causes a blip, then I could buy a box that can shift the midi notes.

hopefully my new laptop can handle any kit configuration I need.  I can expand the ram from 16gb to 32 if I need to.

 

~Jay

[Jay]

Just an update in case Anyone is curious. I bought the eDRUMin 10 interface. The HH chick and splash work well now.

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[Jay]

So I went ahead and bought a new laptop.  It’s a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an 11th generation i7 and 16GB.   It’ll have a dedicated MVME drive for samples.  It also has 4 USB ports – no more hubs! 🙂

Hopefully it’ll work without any issues.

~Jay

[Jay]

I’m also looking at AMD laptops.  Does a fast AMD cpu work as well as Intel for Superior Drummer?

thanks,

~Jay

[Jay]

Thanks,

I’ll give that a try.

Considering that my Macbook is nearly 7 years old, maybe it’s time for a new Laptop.  There is a Lenovo 6-core 2.6ghx-4.5ghz  i7 9th gen with 32 GB and a 2 TB SSD.  Nvidea GTX 1660 TI.  I like it because it has 3 usb ports, so I won’t need a hub.

Is that powerful enough for Superior Drummer to run flawlessly?

~Jay

[Jay]

Thanks for the reply.  My Macbook Pro is a 2 ghz Quad i7.  The interface is the original Babyface.

I closed everything I didn’t need and it did get better.  The activity monitor showed about 6.5 GB of ram used.  Superior Drummer was using about 1.5 GB according to the activity monitor. Within Superior drummer, it shows just over 1000 MB of samples loaded.

The CPU was around 40% most of the time, but occasionally hit 110%.  in the advanced settings I can choose the number of CPU cores.  Is it safe to choose all 8?

I intend to use this for live playing.  Therefore I don’t really need room mics – or at least not all of the room mics.  If I mute them in the mixer will that disable them?

My goal is a dry and natural sounding kit that will sound real when I play with other musicians. Anything that sounds epic and processed won’t work for what I am doing.

~Jay

[Jay]

Thanks for the quick detailed replies.

Most audio software is better on a Mac.  Is that not true of SD3, is it better on Windows?  I’m happy on either platform. My work computer is a PC because it’s better for Cubase, plus there are a handful of programs that are windows only that I really like.  I do like to use a Mac laptop because I don’t have to think about drivers – if I want to record from a sound console via USB it will just work. Also Macs are sort of the industry standard in my circles, even though every new OS breaks half of my stuff.

I am open to buying a new PC laptop.  I really like the LG gram.  It’s not cheap, but looks like a real powerhouse – plus all my samples will fit on the internal SSD.

I did have the setting checked to load the samples, but it didn’t seem to be doing that.  I assume they haven’t loaded because I see the ram indicator filling up as I play.

I set the latency to 256 and it was no better than 64.  Latency at 64 samples feels really good wen it works! I think the default was 128.

In 2010 when I tried to use BFD for live drumming, it was really hard to make it reliable.  The latency was so high that I could not feel time, I had to listen for time – that was kind of a healthy exercise.

In 2021, with SD3, should I expect system performance to be as reliable as a Roland module?

Thanks,

~Jay

[Jay]

Thanks John,

Do pad to midi interfaces normally send a midi note with a HH pedal?  forgive my ignorance, but as I understand it, the pedal is CC4 that gives change data values of 0-127.  Where then would a midi note number be generated?

Do the pad to midi interfaces normally derive the two note numbers for chick and splash based on an interpretation of rapid pedal movement?

~Jay

[Jay]

I get CC4  and under velocity I get “in” 2-125, and “to” 1-127. If I understand the Zendrum, it shows that it’s set for a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 127.

do you have any idea of what could be wrong?

thanks,

~Jay

[Jay]

I just started with the default setting in the edrum page, then I learned every note from each pad.

The zendrum doesn’t send a midi note when I press the pedal, but it dies show a wide range, but I’ll need to verify that it’s the full 0-127.  Out of curiosity, I also plugged in my old FD-7 pedal, and got the same results.

Should the Zendrum also be sending a note number?

thanks,

~Jay

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