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[Ken Spence]

That’s why SWING time was invented.

Eventually one could get in the swing of things. he,he,he ho,ho,ho

Depends on how drunker are I at end of session.

And yes there are those that can’t keep time with anything like my uncle.

OMG “That’s 1,2,3,4 not 4,2,1,3” and his timing was randomly interrupted by “where are we” and scarcely I didn’t know weather he meant song position, house, planet. etc.

No drugs involved.

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.5
Operating system: Windows 10

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

• This post was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Mark.

All I’m saying is it would be a lot easier to bang in drum parts then to use a mouse and  click in drum parts.
cheers, Ken

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
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]

Hay there everyone.

Been playing with my DAW and checking out some stuff about your DAW. Really nice SW, Sooooooooooooooooo

You’re doing it the very hard way.

I do ALL OF MY MIDI DRUM RECORDING in my DAW not SD3,,,,,, Cuz,, To Be Blunt, it is POS grid editor,  in my opinionated view.

In my DAW’s grid editor; I can use the stick tool and manually mouse in the data  or take MIDI directly from my DIGITAL drum kit. I have a big set with lots of pads and YES it cost me a bundle BUT, i recently added a cheap set that i bought from Amazon for $179 (i wanted the pads only to add to my kit) : gave the leftovers’ to my buddy for his kit.  It was an Alisis set with mesh pads.

Once you start swinging sticks at pads and capturing the midi in your DAW you will cut your edit time by 90% and have a blast drumming. I feel that it is impossible to get a groove down with mouse clicking.  Buy a cheep kit and drum the midi into the DAW via SD3. You’ll have a blast and be in better time and grove while listening to your recorded audio (vocal,guitar, xylophone,) as you record the drums.

To summarize: you bought a really nice DAW, SD3 and no physical drum kit??

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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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 3 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Sometimes i get lost in answering the question

If SD3 is loaded up and SYNC is on; just turn on the metronome in SD3 and it will track any BPM in the DAW regardless of it being fixed or variable.  The metronome will track your DAW.

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
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]

Hmmm.

If the bounced audio is lined up with existing audio tracks, there should be no issues. At this point it is an audio file and thus not easily changed.

What is your methodology.

Drum track first then the rest recorded to the drum track or;

Vocals, lead, instrument stuff then drum to that playback.

Personally i never track my drums in SD3 as the record function does not follow the record function of my DAW.

The recorded audio can be analyzed in my daw first and the resulting time signature and BPM are loaded to my grid of the DAW. eg: You are using 93bpm no variation.  In my project, the BPM will vary 91.3 – 97.4 and average out at 93.

No human-being is a metronome.  When i record the drums in the VSTi track i can turn on “snap to grid” while recording and “that” takes care of any in/out digital delay’s etc. It  perfectly aligns the recorded midi to the variable tempo track. From there, i could drag that midi track to SD3 and then export to audio (Bounce) and pull it back into the daw. But I don’t. I just Bounce the entire project to a stereo stem and send that out for approvals. If Required.

?  Do you have a digital drum kit

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
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]

creativenorthmedia wrote:

Setting velocity to a certain value, so that when I apply a hit, it is at that value. Like in Cubase which, although is a shockingly shit DAW, their drum editor is really good.

i wonder what Yamaha would think of this statement, after all they Own Steinberg and produce the odd musical instrument……

Reply To: Set velocity before writing hit in the grid editor version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

[Ken Spence]

Are you using the “fallow DAW” option?

If you did everything that I instructed you to earlier, then your drum hits should be on your timeline correctly. Now, if your DAW is set for the same beats per minutes, one would think that they would line up. However, when does beat one occur  This is the purpose of follow daw. Superior drummer will follow the actual time signature and beats per minute of your doll and the position within this song if you turn this option on.

I am assuming that you are using SD3 in plugin mode.

“Fallow DAW” is not available if you are running SD3 (stand-alone) on one interface and your DAW on another. They cannot digitally sync their time-lines. You must run SD3 as a Plugin to enable “SYNC”

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

• This post was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Excellent

I trust everything else is working out for you.

BTW

“Wild thing” was the first song i ever performed in a bar on a stage with a live audience. Very early eighties.

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
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]

hay there

F irst of all you should be running version 3.3.4 as there are some things that are fixed.

The tab “Block” that is next to “Track 1” has a section at the bottom called edit MIDI and that, has a section called grid editor. Or you can just hit “P” on your keyboard and open it that way. At the top of the editor there are settings for “Quantize”, “Swing”, Randomize etc.

Select all the notes (Hits) with Control “A” and then you can use the “Quantize” slider to line up everything to the grid. if you want to just line up the kick and not the rest just hold  the control button down and use your mouse and select the instrument that you want to modify.

I’m a sloppy snare guy in that on a real kit, no one is in absolute perfect time. So i like to keep my snare real as i use a digital kit and i tighten up my kick drum. I have issue’s with my legs so Kick drum not so accurate. plus if i manually add notes it is sometimes hard to input accurately.

Reply To: creating own drum patterns version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

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[Ken Spence]

In Mark’s defense,

Cubase was the First commercially available DAW to the public and at that time only ran on Mac.  It Is what was copied by all other DAW software companies and if you dig deep enough you will find  in your screen cluttered mess every element is copied from Cubase. They took their visual elements form actual hardware and created a computer software that emulated that hardware.

And yes we are off topic.

For that I will apologize to all the Toontrack members.

I drive an air-conditioned fully loaded Van (Cubase) to get to where I’m going. If one chooses to drive a tricycle, have fun with that.

Reply To: Set velocity before writing hit in the grid editor version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

• This post was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Hi there folks

My understanding of the midi spec is that “ch 10” is for drums as set out in the original MIDI specifications

after re-reading the post i see that there are two controllers being used. two controllers certainty adds an element of expansion to the equation. I can configure a pad on my “trigger IO” to send on another channel but that would only be useful in a DAW and not in standalone mode.

Reply To: Midi channel handling version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

• This post was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

What are you using to input your midi data?

Reply To: Set velocity before writing hit in the grid editor version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

[Ken Spence]

Richard

I now see why you want to get smaller.

John is right you can delete or at least move the files to another HDD. I just looked at the install directory and there is no way to tell what is what from the file names.

In the product manager. there is an option to delete the files in the drop-down beside the download button. If you were to copy all files to an external drive, then go to download manager and delete the library after copying you should be able to downsize your core files on your computer. you should be able to re establish these files in the future, if need be.

Reply To: Deleting sound files to reduce size? version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

• This post was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.

[Ken Spence]

Hey there,

Yes, you are right, we do not know what he has for hardware.
I can be a bit critical, when these kind of questions are asked because if one spent the money on superior drummer, why would you try to run your DAW and superior drummer on a Volkswagen instead of a Lamborghini  from the hardware point of view

I was under the impression that everything was loaded into ram and then streamed from there.

Yes, NVME  drives are much faster. I have two of them along side, my 4 SSDs mounted in the box, and then 4 more mounted in an external drive box.

I must admit that I was under the impression that only the audio files required by the daw were streamed and the drum files, which are basically sound files ran from memory.

When my I5 smoked, and I was looking for a replacement, I went whole hog and bought an I9/20 core.

thanks for the info.

Cheers, Ken.

Reply To: Deleting sound files to reduce size? version: 3.3.4
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]

Wow, hard drives are cheap. Put the entire library on an external drive because when superior drummer loads it loads files once and put them in memory.

wow, spend more money on your memory and an external hard drive.  with everything running and loaded into memory, my memory  load is 13.5 gig that is superior drummer, YouTube, a drawing program, excel and a keyboard manager. Not to mention to interface control software‘s.  For less than $200 you can buy a 1 TB hard drive with a USB 3 interface plenty fast enough to load it’ll take you maybe 10 seconds when you first start up.

by the way, the most common reason for slow loading of any damn file, are antivirus software‘s.

Avast is the only software that I use because if it is good enough for the Canadian Air Force, it is good enough for me. It is small and stinking fast. All your other popular brands that comes with your machine when you first get it out of the box and you pay money for, slow you down fill you up full of advertising and publish shit straight out the back door to third-party companies.
PS Avast is available for every platform. iPhone, Mcintosh, Google phone, Windows, etc.

Reply To: Deleting sound files to reduce size? version: 3.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10

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

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