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[John]

Hi,

I would say ≈170+ MIDI files included in the Fusion EZX.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

you can record a melody directly onto the Song Track with a MIDI controller and/or pencil it in in the Grid Editor. You can highlight the Scale and/or Chord keys in the Grid to make it easier to pencil in a melody that fits the Chords.

BR,
John

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[John]

How many CPU Cores are selected in Settings > Performance?

BR,
John

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[John]

How it is supposed to work (and how it works for me) is:
– that you leave all MIDI assignments unaltered on the DRUMS page
– you open the MIDI In/E-drums Settings, Enable ‘Use Preset’ and select a pre-made one, create your own or a mix of both, which you then Save as your own Preset.

This Preset should “stick” even if you switch kit Presets or Libraries. It doesn’t stick if you load another Project where this Preset is not Enabled.
If you create a Custom Kit and MIDI Preset and want this to be your Default setup, you make all adjustments and Enable your MIDI Preset, then ‘Set Current to Default Project’.

If your Default Project is Saved with your Custom MIDI Preset, it will be applied when opening the standalone or when inserting a new instance in a DAW.
If you have another Project where you do not have your Custom MIDI Preset applied, you can either load it and go to MIDI In/E-drums Settings and apply the MIDI Preset or just go to Load Settings From > Default Project.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi Peter,

if you are on the DRUMS page and hit the ‘M’ key on your keyboard, you toggle Mute on/off for the currently selected Instrument. Can be easy to hit it accidentally.

As for the Fader/Channel thing, it’s not a hard-wired setup like that, with a fixed number of Mono/Stereo Mixer Channels.
I.e. a Library has got a number of microphones used when recoding it. How many and their Mono/Stereo set up is decided by the producer for that Library in question.
E.g. ‘Area 33 – Origin’ has got 52 microphones. These microphones, whether Mono or Stereo, can be routed to a Bus or Output. All Busses and Outputs are Stereo.
If you click the output section of a Mixer Channel (right below the Fader) you can decide where to send it – Bus or Output. Panning controls for a Mixer channel depends on whether it is a Mono or Stereo Microphone used.

I hope this clarifies,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,
the Tam-Tam is Muted on the DRUMS page. Click the ‘Clear Mute’ button to hear it.
I’m afraid I do not understand what you mean with “31/32 doesn’t appear in the mono section”?
I suspect that you are not yet familiar with Microphones and the Mixer but please elaborate.
If memory serves me right, it does not have a Close Mono Mic, if that is what you mean. You can always right-click an Instrument go to More > Route Instrument Microphones to see the available microphone options for Close and Bleed signals.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

if you change the MIDI Mapping there, it is changing the actual Toontrack Default note mapping and breaks compatibility with Toontrack MIDI.
The beauty of using MIDI Mapping Presets on the ‘MIDI In/E-drums Settings page, is that it transforms incoming MIDI while leaving the actual factory coded MIDI note mapping intact, keeping compatibility with grooves. If you create a User MIDI In Preset, you can apply it to other Library kits/presets.
Changing MIDI notes in the MIDI Mapping Property Box on the DRUMS page does not give you the possibility to save as a preset.

BR,
John

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[John]

BEST ANSWER

Hi,

to load articulations that aren’t loaded, you click the small “power” button to the right of the articulation name.
Once loaded, you should be able to map the Instrument and Articulations as you wish. Make sure the ‘Use Preset’ button is on in the ‘MIDI In/E-drum Settings’.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Hi,

to load articulations that aren’t loaded, you click the small “power” button to the right of the articulation name.
Once loaded, you should be able to map the Instrument and Articulations as you wish. Make sure the ‘Use Preset’ button is on in the ‘MIDI In/E-drum Settings’.

BR,
John

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[John]

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

sounds like both an annoying and strange problem if this is only after startup and not while running the Project?
If you open the Project, bring up the plug-in interface and hit Play, does it go away or is it still crackling?
I suspect there is some setting in Reaper causing this on your system but I am not that experienced with Reaper, I just know that I haven’t experienced this myself.
I attach some screen shots from my Settings which I *think* may potentially have something to do with this and maybe it will help at least rule out things?

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

I think the Preference Jord is referring to is this Project Setting:

‘Only load plug-ins needed for project playback’

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

that is not its intended use but it will work more or less but is highly dependent on the input; i.e. a poorly encoded MP3 that is crushed in the dynamics will of course demand more work from the user than separately recorded hi-res WAV files per instrument. You will not get as good results, in other words; OH sounds and HH will be tough to work out.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

as Shootie writes, please explain what you are trying to achieve because from your description above it sounds as if you are mixing up Audio outputs and MIDI outputs, which are totally different things.

The former depends entirely on your hardware setup, the latter on both software and hardware.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi,

are we talking about ‘Drums & Mixer’ Presets?
Did you open the folder where they are supposed to reside from within SD3?
You do know that User presets for SDX:s need to be in the specific User preset folder for the parent SDX they were created with? I.e. if I create a User preset with the Hansa Marble Room as “parent” (or base, if you will) it will not show if the currently loaded SDX is the SD3 Core Library. Or, if such a User preset is put in the wrong parent folder, I imagine it wouldn’t always load correctly.

BR,
John

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