[kristofic]

Thank you! — Rookie mistake, obviously.

I imagine that I could have figured this out — if the downloadable manual had a table of contents and / index.  SD3 is a powerful, complex program, and as such, documentation is an important part of being able to figure it out.  My natural tendency is to consult a pdf version of the manual — but it’s hard to find what you’re looking for without an index or table of contents.

My next task is to figure out how to combine libraries (so I can have a regular drum kit and latin percussion  sounds together) — and I did just see that the on-line manual does have a table of contents, so hopefully I will figure it out in short order.

Thanks again — works like a charm.

[kristofic]

Here is what I am doing:

Bring up SD 3.1.2 in standalone mode.  It shows the default drum kit (mostly gretsch drums).

On the Grooves tab, on the far left, select (only) EZX Latin Percussion from the EZX Libraries group.  The main Groves window shows that all of the grooves are from that library.

Any grove that is selected plays cymbals from the default drum kit.  I can add latin percussion instruments using the Add Instrument button at the top left — no difference.  I can drill down the filters on the groove tab to those that only use the added latin percussion instruments — no difference.

If I look at one of the EZX Latin Percussion grooves in the midi grid editor, I can see that the notes are for the default drum kit.  For example, the EZX Latin Percussion groove “2 Slap Grooves 05” has notes for Cymbal 2 and Ride — and that’s what I am hearing, not bongos.  The added latin percussion instruments appear as Instrument 1, 2, etc, but there are no notes assigned to them.

I can add the Latin Percussion instruments before of after selecting the groove — the result is the same.

The grid editor does not show midi note numbers, but from looking at the keyboard layout pdfs, I think the note numbers in the groove do correspond to the latin percussion instruments — but it’s as if the groove were directed at the default kit, and not the latin percussion instruments.

Is there a step I am missing to direct the latin percussion grooves to the latin percussion instruments?

 

Thanks, MK

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