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[John]

Hi Gerry,

please visit this FAQ:
https://www.toontrack.com/faq/where-are-my-files-located/

There is info about Default locations for libraries, MIDI and plug-ins as well as a link on How to move sound libraries.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

if you are in the Grid Editor and have selected all notes in a block, you can Alt/Option+Up/Down Arrow key to Transpose them in semitone steps, add the Shift key to Transpose in octaves.

BR,
John

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[John]

GregRockN wrote:

John, can you please tell us what Future Hit Instrument is associated with the SD3 Percussion grooves with a Power Hand of  “One Hit Pad”? In the Drums tab when I pull down the menu for “Add an Instrument” and select Future Hit Instrument I only see two options:  1.) Shaker, and 2.) Tambourine.  Those two instruments are associated with SD3 Percussion grooves with the Power Hand of “Shaker Pad” and “Tambourine Pad”.  I do not see a Future Hit Instrument called “One Shot”.  Therefore I do not know what instrument(s) is associated with the SD3 Percussion grooves with the Power Hand of “One Shot Pad”.

Hi,

the One Shot Pad is for: Claps, Snaps, Stomps, Cowbells, Blocks and Tambourine Hits. These sounds are not “Future Hit” Instruments but intended for use with the Percussion pads and the Edit Play Style feature introduced in EZdrummer 2 and now available in EZdrummer 3 and Superior Drummer 3 and complement the Future Hit Instruments. The idea of the Edit Play Style and Percussion Pads is that you can “dial” in grooves with added percussion to your existing drum grooves without needing to record them yourself. The main thing is of course the Future Hit pads where EZD3/SD3 can take into account the portion of audio happening before the transient but this makes it hard to record by hand, so the Edit Play Style feature makes this a breeze and then you also have MIDI grooves in the EZD2, EZD3 and SD3 core percussion libraries which can be added from the Grooves Browser.

As Jord explained above, in EZdrummer 3, the percussion pads are loaded as default, in SD3 you add them if you want them. Loading an EZX Preset in SD3 will automatically load the percussion pads.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

according to the UA website:
LUNA supports UAD-2 plugins, UADx plug-ins, LUNA Extensions, UAD Instruments, VST3 plug-ins (in Windows), and Audio Unit (AU) plug-ins (in macOS). LUNA Extensions include Tape Machines, API and Neve Summing, and API Vision Console. Extensions are incorporated into the LUNA workflow. Instruments appear in a separate plug-ins list from insert effect plug-ins.

You have EZdrummer 2, right? EZdrummer 2 is VST2 and AAX only.

BR,
John

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[John]

Greg sums it up

GregRockN wrote:

The bottom line is that the SD3 library Percussion Grooves do, in fact, have MIDI in them but you need to have a drum kit defined with an instrument that associates itself with “Note 1” (Power Hand “One Shot Pad”), or “Note 2” (Power Hand “Shaker Pad”), or “Note 3” (Power Hand “Tambourine Pad”).  It appears that SD3’s Percussion grooves are associated only with “Future Hit Instruments” such as shakers and tambourines.

As you can see in the very first screen shot, the Power hand is one of the “pads”, which means you need to have an instrument loaded there for the MIDI to produce sound.
For “normal” instruments, substitution would kick into place but not the special Percussion pads.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

it’s registered to your account now.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi Cyryl,

connected to this user email, I only find one order from November 2023. Did you buy it with another user id and email?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

please contact Toontrack Support directly via any of the FAQ pages:
https://www.toontrack.com/faq/how-do-i-contact-support/

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

your Mac (since OS Catalina, I believe) will read the NTFS drive but it can’t write to it, which can pose problems down the line, if you want to install something new on that drive.

If you must keep the drive NTFS formatted, there is 3rd party software that can help with this.
I would simply copy the data to another drive temporarily, format the SSD drive to APFS, then copy the data back. Unless you need to access the drive from a PC as well, then I would choose exFAT.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

please see my reply to your other post.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

setting up two different HH controllers via two different modules, connected to one instance of SD3 will not work, if you expect them to act independently.

If you, on the other hand, wish to connect a 2nd HH controller to your module/SD3 instance to be used as a “regular” pad, it should be just as easy as adding any other pad. Make sure it sends unique notes to SD3 and ‘Add Instrument’.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

could you please elaborate?

You started by Enabling the Roland TD-30 MIDI Preset on the MIDI In/E-drum Settings page  in SD3?
Which Library and Preset are you using?
Do you wish to change the sound of Cymbal 5 to the one loaded on Cymbal 3? Or is it only the triggering that is wrong?
Do you have the TD-30 @ Factory Settings MIDI note wise?
The SD3 software does not split the incoming MIDI to several Instruments, so if two Cymbals are triggered, the most plausible cause is that your module is sending two notes. You can expand the MIDI Monitor Property Box or open the MIDI In/E-drum Settings page and watch the Analyzer to see which notes are received from the module when you hit the Cymbal pad.

BR,
John

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