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[LeanderL]

Thanks, but I don’t know what you mean. Which articulations are “hihat closed” and “hihat open”? Please forget what I said about Guitar Pro…I write the hihat patterns in SD3…but which samples should I use for the footwork part? Or is the part I need “pedal open, pedal closed, pedal open, pedal closed”?

PS What is “sequenced hits”?

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• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by LeanderL.

[LeanderL]

Thanks, I know…I only write my songs in Guitar Pro, then improve the midis in the DAW…for SD, this means that I only have the basic beats in Guitar Pro, but then rework the hihats, velocities, use “my” entire SD3 kit with 4 crashes, 4 chinas etc.

My question was which of SD3’s samples are needed to recreate the opening groove in the video -> no sticks, but you just open and close the hihat with your foot…which SD3 articulations do I need? I checked out some SD3 midis, but they only use tight edge and closed edge without footwork.

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[LeanderL]

The grid editor has kick, snare, toms, hihat etc…I have a sixth tom, a second ride and a second hihat and want to have the 6th tom (the highest one) on top ->

instrument 1 (=6th tom)
racktom 1
racktom 2
racktom 3
floortom 1
floortom 2

This way, I can create tom rolls more easily…same for hihat 2 under hihat 1 and ride 2 under ride 1…but when reordering the pieces and placing the 6th tom on top of racktom 1, this order is lost next time I load the DAW project.

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[LeanderL]

I’m no longer mixing. I’ll send my files to a pro…but still one and the same velocity should have e.g. subtle hits and not one that is stronger.

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[LeanderL]

Oh wow, didn’t know this either..thinking the volume would affect the entire kit piece.

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[LeanderL]

It seems that it is not even saved with your DAW project. You have to reorder them every time you load a DAW project. 🙁

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[LeanderL]

Ok, thanks. I have a lot loaded, but still only 27% used. I have 64 GB of RAM.

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[LeanderL]

I know, I know. I program my drums (and tab all my instruments) in Guitar Pro…then I import the drums in SD3…of course my goal is to have realistic drums…so how should I set the hits? Realism is based on velocity. 🙂

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[LeanderL]

PS That’s why I wanted to know velocity layers…if velocity 115 and 114, 113… trigger the same samples, I would like to know the ranges so I don’t have to use velocity x random 2-3 for example.

e.g.

127-125
124-122
121-119
118-115
114-110
109-105
104-100
99-95
94-90
etc.

It would be handy to know the exact numbers…so I can use 127, 124, 121, 118 etc. as fixed numbers if I need a decreasing hit strength instead of guessing or using the random function to add a human feel.

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[LeanderL]

You are right, but I’ve been fighting with such issues for 20 years. I released some albums many years ago when I was young and you could release music with bad sound as good VSTis weren’t around back then (and I did not have them). Then I wrote a lot of songs and did not want to release them with limited mixing knowledge, being afraid to make mistakes….and I need a tedious way of working to feel secure when doing things….even when I manually enter numbers for alike-sounding velocities.

Anyway, thanks for your help, I’ll continue working.

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[LeanderL]

No, but it is about having a good feeling by tweaking things and playing with knobs.

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[LeanderL]

PS I found a way to randomly increase or decrease the velocity without touching the maxium velocity. e.g. velocity 124 should remain 124 and 118-100 should be increased by 5. You can draw and select all notes BELOW 124, then increase them.

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[LeanderL]

Thank you!

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[LeanderL]

It does not matter if it makes sense or not, but if and how it can be done. I program my drums in Guitar Pro, then import them into SD3 and expand the kit and set the velocities there.

If the e.g. snare is not powerful enough in the mix and I want to increase the entire velocity of all snare hits by a certain amount WITHOUT pushing 124 beyond 124, this can be only done with certain functions.

I’d love to see an “auto velocity” function. It should be possible in 2025…there are limitations how powerful and fast a drummer can hit a kit piece…the more hits per time, the softer, e.g. sixteenth notes snare hits at 180 BPM vs. quarter notes at 180 BPM or sixteenth notes at 100 BPM. Then the function could calculate possible velocities automatically.

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• This post was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by LeanderL.

[LeanderL]

You are right. Do you know the answer to my other questions please?

1) How do you set a velocity of 114? The grid editor always jumps from 115 to 113…I can set all other velocities just fine. Normally, you can use shift to e.g. increase or decrease the panning slider, but not for velocities.

2) How can I have a maximum velocity of x with a random variation? I don’t want to use e.g. 122 random 3 to create velocities of 119-125, but use 124 as the default velocity, then subtract a random 0-x velocity, but without increasing the 124.

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