[David Pefley]

Ok,
This is interesting in that I was running the module as a VST Plugin. So are you telling me that the host (Reaper in this case) facilitates the basic Windows commands and does it for your application? If that is the case then it is not functioning on my end. Or do mean use a couple tracks on the DAW to cut and paste midi back and forth between the plug and the DAW tracks? if that is the case I was already thinking of doing just that.

Thanks for your quick response,
D

[David Pefley]

@terrasini74 said:
Oh man, i see google results where people are asking in 2012 “is superior drummer 3 coming out soon?” Here we are in 2016 and still no Superior Drummer 3. But i honestly don’t know what they can improve upon! SD 2.3 does everything i can ask for. I guess they could always add more samples, like drum rolls, cymbal swells, etc. Other than that, i don’t have any suggestions. SD 2 is so flexible. The fact that you can edit the articulations is amazing. Like i can have the snare center hit at one volume/pitch, and i can have the rim shot at another volume or pitch.
I do wish the expansion kits were cheaper. They cost almost as much as SD2 itself.
I know one thing. If SD3 is released, i for sure am upgrading! But i hope the SDX expansion kits for SD2 will be compatible with SD3(if it’s ever released).  

Well one improvement that I would love to see in SD3 would be to have some form of the tap, tap, tap drum pattern search engine found in EZD2! I curse SD2x everytime I look for a drum pattern. I have 3 expansion packs and nearly every MIDI pack for Rock imaginable and more to sift. It takes me 2-3 hours to hunt and peck my way through that many drum tracks and variations looking for a suitable drum midi pattern or groove. How is it a lessor product they produce (EZD2) gets those kinds of features and SD2x folks are left waiting for years on a full major version upgrade? In addition improvements can be made to the effects as others have mentioned. I have not looked around lately but I imagine other software vendors have advanced the bar too and that should be looked for a similar inclusion to SD3. I would like to think Toontrack would want the income from a SD upgrade but if you think about it, the SDX expansion packs are probably cheaper to produce that a full blown upgrade to SD2x and they get nearly as much for the expansion packs as they do for SD. Additionally it would be nice to have a groove or drum pattern rating system and comments field in the Drum Groove area or tab. If that were searchable it could save countless hours looking for drum tracks and patterns that had already been reviewed by the user. Today I know of only one way to do this using SD2x. It is possible to rename and copy midi patterns into the User Libraries. By doing this one can organize and sort of catalog drum grooves, but it is laborious at best. To be honest I feel that for myself I might start looking around to see what the competition has to offer. This aspect alone should inspire Toontrack to produce a major SD2x upgrade so they don’t alienate customer and lose them.

Thanks,
LB

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