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[Ken Spence]

I myself being a longtime cubase user. I agree, wholeheartedly (note in / note out) – in your midi transformation editor. I can picture the settings page in my mind, but I’ll be damned if I can give you the actual where to click and what it it’s called. I just know I just know where it is.

I agree with Jord. It can be confusing in which section you are referring to as in midi set up to my knowledge you can only add your interfaces and set the channel that superior drummer is receiving upon, and of course, each interface has to be set to transmit to usually channel 10 for midi drums.

I do feel sometimes that in conversation, midi note number and midi channel get confused

Anyway, I’ve kicked the cat enough

I go make lunch

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 8 months, 3 weeks ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

It sounds like the mappings should have been defined in the MIDI/e-drum settings instead of the preset.

jord

As far as I know, the only thing you can change in the settings area is what channel you are using to transmit and receive your midi upon. That’s great if you got a keyboard that is stuck using channel 10, and you can avoid that issue as far as this problem presents, I have no clue how that would help. I’m curious.

 

 

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

I have a question,

Could you not just add another midi value to the same articulation.

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

OK, it seems to be working.

Sorry, I’m not actually replying to this topic in that. I am trying out my new dictation on my new Apple laptop.

With regards to ripple, I have never heard this term used anywhere with regards to music and or drums. In my head that is only a thing you get with water. This is certainly a better dictation system than the windows dictation services

 

Cheers everyone

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

Excellent job. I’ve been doing that for years. My units are the original Yamaha 450K and two Alesis I/O. units. The cool thing about is that there are 10 program changes so theoretically I could add a whole bunch of instruments and program the note numbers for say a orchestral kit on prg 2 and a bagpipe kit on prg 3 etc. only problem is there’s only 127 numbers to choose from I don’t have a lot of patches and or drum sounds other than the Latin percussion pack, there are so many drum sounds in just the basic sd3

I am however looking for a replacement Yamaha one zone 7 1/2 inch drum it would appear that one of mine failed. I have thought of upgrading to newer mesh heads but I can’t find anything in 7 1/2 inch. i dont have th space on the rack

Sorry for any misspelled or nonsensical words I am using the wind

 

cheers K

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

Sorry for the delay I’ve been offline for a while.

Regards K

Reply To: Export all Audio doesn’t follow the DAW for tempo changes version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 10

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

What i would like to see is, the ability to drag the drum and have the panning track where you position that drum with respect to center. Matching reality in the studio with respect to actual kit piece positioning, and having the ability to have superior drummer automatically pan each instrument that you can now drag around the screen and match your physical layout would be a great asset. The other thing that has always been a big bone of contention for me audience position versus sitting on the drum throne, yes there is a function to reverse the audio output but it is not very evident as to what mode you are in.

The making of symbols and hi-hat sounds more realistic is of course data sensitive, so anyone complaining about running out of SSD space go buy a new one.

Reply To: SD4 Coming this year? version: 3.3.7
Operating system: Windows 10

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

Hi all,

This is a great question and yes, I’m curious as well because I run standalone and only capture the audio not the midi.

My first question to you regarding this topic is why do you run SD3  in your DAW and standalone. You are probably modifying your kit pieces in your standalone for sound, and using the midi capture of the DAW once you’re happy with the sound of your kit. Am I correct

In my setup, I run multiple interfaces into my main interface to capture, audio, no midi connection is established,, only the drum audio is captured. There is no record for midi on either the computer or SD3.  Ideally I would like to capture the midi being generated in the standalone SD3 in my daw. or for instance, record the midi in SD and synchronize SD3 to the DAW somehow

Operating system: Windows 10

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 1 year ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Yeah it’s flaky,  I do however see the CC controller data coming in from 1 external keyboard and not the other yet yesterday both of them were streaming CC controller information. Did nothing, left it running on my computer, went upstairs to bed. Come back downstairs this morning moved a fader on each one and voila only one is working now. In MIDI port setup it shows both controllers one being active and one not active.

Not very helpful to me. My goal is to have physical keyboards “faders and knobs” that will adjust volumes and tuning on every kit piece. Then I can play the song and play along, adjusting the tuning etc., before I do a take. Then do a take.

A buddy that I collaborate with all the time still doesn’t get what superior drummer 3 is about. The question comes, how come your drum sounds are so much better than mine when I do it with my kit. My answer is because I spent a lot more money than you did. Seriously his first mixer board has a plastic case.

I would still like to know why this happened.  it makes no sense to me. Even the default kit loaded in the SD3 in stand alone mode all these symbols worked and made sound but suck that into Cubase via VST……

I really hope it’s not a random glitch cause I hate chasing random glitches.

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

So finally, no idea what caused it. Went into SD3 checked all the volumes mappings etcetera. And made sure that it was saved as the name “default” project. Loaded Cubase 11, open the VST to see the nice automation’s. Pressed play and viola I got symbol sound. Any continuous controllers are not connected and of course there is no drop down menu for setup to be able to tell superior drummer to connect the damn controllers. The other curious thing is that how do you connect multiple controllers and do your MIDI interface connections without this menu being available.

As far as this blog is concerned, I thank everyone that has tried to help resolve this problem.

Thanks for all help

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

Well as I said earlier in stand alone everything is fine and it is a standard kit. Just changed out the one ride.  I have noticed that the CC controller assignments are stored in the project file not the preset file.

Working on it  !!!!!

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

And Jack no I did not miss any of the that stuff and I really appreciate it cuz it opens more understanding of SD3’s capabilities

PS i will take the 1st ride and change it back to a ride from the core kit witch is where this SD3 project originated from.

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

• This post was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

In Superior drummer my outputs are stereo, simple!, left & right that’s it. No magic or multi-channel.

The attached input interfaces to superior drummer are, Yamaha DTX 450K, trigger IO (1) trigger IO (2).

DTX 450 = snare (3zone), HHat (1 zone).     Midi is being received and recorded. Playback Sound is heard

Trigger 1 = six mono pads (5 toms 1 cowbell)    Midi is being received and recorded. Playback Sound is heard

Trigger 2 = six mono pads (6 Cymbals)      Midi is being received and recorded. Playback Sound is NOT heard

Even the tambourine and cowbell from Latin percussion library is being heard and played back via MIDI.

My DAW is Cubase 11.  SD3 is loaded as a VST instrument. I purposely add a 2nd output channel so that I can redirect audio from SD3 two another fader. My studio capture 1610 has five stereo outputs that can be set independently of any DAW etc. In this manner I sack the balance between the program already recorder and what I have captured in MIDI. Obviously this gives me the ability to adjust the level of the drums to the existing program material.

So I I’m going to scrap this entire project. I will start with a clean slate in Cubase, add VST instruments and see what happens. It is too bad that the DAW does not have a MIDI monitor window to see what is being received and transmitted both to the VST plugin and physically out.

 

This one has obviously has me stumped but thank you for your help any insight or discoveries is obviously welcome.

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

[Ken Spence]

Yes i am typing now and that’s funny as hell Thank you that’s awesome..Needed that..

I noticed that i am missing extra instruments in my DEFAULT named project so i will go load B & B and save that as DEFAULT project name. not preset name.

thx

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

• This post was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Sorry for my rant. Too many head aches and not enough progress, stolen vehicles etc. yes some ass stole my truck.

So when saving in sd3 the preset is saved with the project name that you choose. “Black & Blue” this case. The preset name is called “test 1”
In my DAW you don’t have the choice to load by project name, it just loads the DEFAULT preset. I had sound until on the cymbals until i loaded the project “Black & Blue”. Then sound gone once i loaded “black & blue” preset is still default.The strange part is that it is ONLY the cymbals. even the extra instrument work they are heard

All of the CC mapping that i did is once again is gone. Probably because i didn’t save it in “Default””preset” witch you cant save anyway. You can save a project called Default and this is is probably where the cc stuf is stored. The MIDI is still recorded the and captured but does not produce sound on the cymbals ONLY.after i load the project Name B&B

?????????????

thx for help

Cheers Ken
SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

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