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[John]

Hi,

if I have Track > Auto Scroll Enabled, the Playhead gets inserted at the leftmost selected groove on the Song Track. With a quick spacebar play/stop or Cmd+left arrow/right arrow, that location is in view again.

Does this help?

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

either you load the Drums & Mixer Preset called ‘Brush Delight’ to start from or you load another of those Presets and then go to ‘Drum Kits > Brush Kit’.

BR,
John

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[John]

Oh, I misunderstood your question; of course you can record a chord from a MIDI controller directly onto the Song Track.
Click the Rec button, then Play and record. Right-click to Quantize and/or double-click to Edit in the Grid Editor.

BR,
John

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Thanked by: Scott Eshleman

[John]

Hi,

if you Pencil in the Chords on the Song Track, you should get a question if you want to add MIDI to the Chords if you don’t Pencil them in as well. You can also click the ‘Add Standard Groove’ button.
This will give you something to start from if you don’t wish to start from the included MIDI.

BR,
John

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Thanked by: bokchoy and Scott Eshleman

[John]

Hi,

AFAIK, how many velocity “layers” are sampled depends on the instrument and library in question. I would presume it also has to do with the total size of the final library product but a general rule of thumb would be that newer libraries have more.
I.e. there are no fixed numbers here and it doesn’t matter that much, since the engine is clever enough to take care of what’s in between.
If you have a lot of RAM, you can always go into the ‘Voice and Layer’ Property Box and set the Soft, Gradient and Hard Limits to ‘-‘ to sees if you experience an improvement for the song you are working on but most of the time Defaults are good since most modern music is very loud and consistent.

Regarding setting a note’s Velocity value to 114, it’s an odd one. I will have to check with my colleagues about that but if you have two (or more) notes set to 115, and select them in the Velocity Lane, you can drag the Velocity Slider -1 to set them both to 114.
I think most of what you are asking about regarding Velocity can be done in the Grid Editor by selecting an instrument’s all (or song part’s) notes and use the available tools.
Having the ability to tell the Grid Editor to set an instrument’s selected hits to a specific value and then randomize in only a negative direction in a specific range would make for a request in the ‘Requests & Feedback’ section though.

BR,
John

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Thanked by: Scott Eshleman

[John]

Hi,

I just tried running all three flavors of the SD3.4.2 plug-in in Reaper 7.56 and have no problem running neither the SD3 Song Track nor Reaper Track MIDI with the plug-in FX window closed. I am trying to figure out if there is a particular setting in Reaper that can cause this but solar I haven’t found anything.

BR,
John

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Thanked by: buckycore

[John]

Hi, the info in that thread is a bit misleading (though I am sure the user in question had no such intention).

First; what he means is Project Files (.ezd3p and .sd3p) not User Presets.
Second; even though you can open a Project you renamed from *.ezd3p to *.sd3p in SD3, it will not open correctly.

You can open EZD3 Drums and Mixer User Presets in SD3, like in the attached screen shot. Exporting MIDI from EZD3 and Importing it into SD3 next would be my suggestion.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Ja, das ist eine Möglichkeit.
Eine andere (vorausgesetzt, Sie verwenden dieselbe MIDI-Belegung) besteht darin, die Benutzer-Presets für „Drums und Mixer“ oben rechts zu speichern und Ihr MIDI-Preset zu laden und zu aktivieren. Im beigefügten Bild sehen Sie unten rechts, dass ich ein MIDI-Preset (in meinem Fall Roland TD-12) aktiviert habe und darüber hinaus drei verschiedene Benutzer-Presets aus drei verschiedenen Bibliotheken. Wenn ich zwischen Core Bright Room, Electronic Edge und Gospel wechsle, bleibt mein E-Drum-MIDI-Preset aktiv, während ich Bibliotheken, Kits und deren Einstellungen sowie die Mixer-Einstellungen schnell und reibungslos ändere.

/John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hallo,
wenn Sie über „Datei“ > „Speichern unter…“ (File > Save As…)speichern, wird der gesamte Plugin-Status mit Sounds, Mixer-Einstellungen und Mappings gespeichert. Auch die Daten der Songspur(en) werden gespeichert. Es handelt sich dabei um eine sogenannte „Projektdatei“ (Project File).
Wenn Sie Änderungen an einem Library-Preset vorgenommen haben, das Sie oben rechts in der Benutzeroberfläche speichern, werden alle Instrumenten- und Mixer-Einstellungen gespeichert.
Drum-Kit-Presets, die Sie ebenfalls oben rechts finden, speichern nur die Instrumente des Drumkits.
Wenn Sie Ihr eigenes MIDI-Mapping unter den Einstellungen „E-Drum/MIDI In“ gespeichert und aktiviert haben, bleibt es erhalten, auch wenn Sie das Library-Preset oder das Drum-Kit-Preset ändern. Das Laden einer Projektdatei über „Datei“ > „Öffnen…“ (File > Open…) überschreibt jedoch ein aktives MIDI-Mapping.

/John

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[John]

Yes, creating a new Mixer channel for the Stack member ‘Route Instrument Microphones…’ should do the trick.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

are you trying to use your own samples on the HH? This will not work as expected.  EZdrummer 3 is not a drum machine per se.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

if you have two or more MIDI interfaces connected to the same computer and to the same instance of SD3, you just make sure to have them “ticked” in the check boxes in the MIDI Devices list in the Audio/MIDI Setup in SD3.
You will have to manually edit MIDI notes sent from the added module (in the module, not SD3), which in your case would be the SPD-X, so they do not overlap with what is sent from your TD-17 module.
I.e. both modules cannot have their standard note values set, since the one instance of SD3 cannot split incoming MIDI notes per device/port; a note #60 sent from both devices will trigger the same articulation in SD3. This applies whether you connect several modules separately via USB or in series via traditional MIDI/DIN to one instance of SD3.
If you use some kind of host/DAW, you can have several instances of SD3 and then they could be triggered by the different devices on different ports.

I hope this clarifies.

BR,
John

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Thanked by: Muellercraft

[John]

Hi,
as Jord writes, Enable MIDI Out in EZD3 and then create a Send on the EZD3 track or a Receive on the GGD track.
The attached screen shot shows it set up with EZkeys 2. Also, as Jord writes, the mapping will likely be off so you would want to re-map the GGD track to match the incoming instrument and articulation notes.

BR,
John

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Thanked by: sdgoat

[John]

Hi,

the Ride is about -3dB lower in the AMB mics in most presets (not in the Original Mix one) in the Bright Room but I would assume this is what the Producer Michael Ilbert intended. The Ride has got its own microphone as well, so you should be able to shape the sound to your liking.

BR,
John

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