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[Mac McCormick]

Hey, Andrew!

OK, here we go.
I’ve attached two images below.

Drum Map Pull down.jpg:
#1. Make sure your SD3 track is setup to be a Drum Track
#2. Go over to the Inspector and click on “No Drum Map”. You will get the pulldown menu you see in the image. If you want to use a GM map choose that, otherwise choose “Drum Map Setup”

Drum Map Setup. jpg
#3. Click on “Functions” in the upper left corner
#4. If you want to load one of your own drum maps choose “Load” and navigate to the folder where you have saved your drum maps. If you want to create a new drum map choose “New Map”

Then you want to go back and click on the drum stick icon as shown in the Drum Map Pull down.jpg (#1) In the resulting pop down menu you should see the drum map you loaded in the previous window. Choose it and you’re good to go! You should see your mappings in the Key Editor Window.

Do the same for any other SD3 track.

Here’s a link to the SD3 (EZX and SDX) drum maps I have found or created myself. If you find any errors let me know and I’ll correct them.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ovwh0hvj1g5bs4tubdysb/h?rlkey=cf5vtjuxr0gs9e4anr9n39dbg&dl=0

Let me know how it works out!

-mike

Reply To: Can I multiple Instances of SD3 in Cubase each with its own unique drum map ? version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mac McCormick]

I run multiple instances of SD3 in Cubase quite often, and have not had the problems you are having.
How do you create your drum maps? I have created a bunch of my own for Cubase (which I’m happy to share with you) and I usually name them after the SDX I am creating them for. I have an Orchestral 1, Orchestral 2, Darkness, Rock Foundry, etc.

I just realized that they changed how this is done in Cubase 13. It’s a bit different than it was in 12 and before.

Let me know what version of Cubase you are using and I’ll give you instructions.

Reply To: Can I multiple Instances of SD3 in Cubase each with its own unique drum map ? version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

• This post was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Mac McCormick.

[Mac McCormick]

Are you changing the octaves on your Axiom? You need to set it where the low C is C1.

Reply To: New user, need help setting up Midi keyboard controller version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

Just Right-Click (I don’t know how to do it on a Mac) on one of the empty cymbal images (or other vacant slots) and take it from there. You can choose any of the ones on the list that shows up, or search all your SDX libraries and audition them to choose from there.

Reply To: Instruments (cymbals) not loaded version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mac McCormick]

Ahh!!! Got it. I didn’t see that at first. Downloading now.

I’ve now successfully installed a number of products and everything going smoothly!

Thanks to all for the help!!!

Reply To: Moving Superior Drummer and EZ Bass to new computer version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

OK I will have to download the SD3 app itself to do this. Is the SD3 app in the first part of the 5 part download? In other words, can I just download part 1 of SD3?

Reply To: Moving Superior Drummer and EZ Bass to new computer version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

Thanks all for the responses!
But, I have run into a problem. I installed the Product Manager and all of my products showed up. So I clicked on the “Authorize All” butt0n and it only authorized 2 trial products. So I now have 79 “not installed” products.

These products are all on a drive in my computer but the product Manager does not know where they are. Therefore, the only option I am getting for each product is “Download Product”. Of course this is something I don’t want to go through since I already have all of them on my drive. All I need is t0 authorize them

How do I let Product Manager know that they are already installed? (they are not installed on the boot drive. They are installed on a 2nd internal drive)

Or is there another solution?

Thanks again!

Reply To: Moving Superior Drummer and EZ Bass to new computer version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

Ha! I’ll tell you that this is no fun. Toontrack stuff is pretty easy. But with hundreds of other plugin companies, not so much. I’m dealing with dozens of them, each of which have their own installers, and their own way of deauthorization (if any). Many times the process is very unintuitive. Others that don’t have installers do it on a plugin-by-plugin basis.

All in all, I’m on my 3rd day of working on this transfer.

Reply To: Moving Superior Drummer and EZ Bass to new computer version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

Thanks, John! Very much appreciated!

Reply To: Moving Superior Drummer and EZ Bass to new computer version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

If you drag a groove from SD3 onto a track it your DAW, it will play at the DAW’s tempo at that point in time.

Reply To: Superior 3 , drag and drop midi… version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

Key signature changes are not part of the MIDI 1.0 spec and therefore cannot be transferred via MIDI.
Changing tempo actually changes what you listen to. Key signatures are only for reference.

Reply To: Import Time Signature changes version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

Reply To: Finding beats version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

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[Mac McCormick]

Hey Mark,

Are you using a PCI card t0 mount you M.2 drives or do you have multiple M.2 slots 0n your motherboard?

Thanks!

Reply To: Presets Not Loading In At All version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

While I have had random variations in loading SD3 kits, it’s never been anything like hours. Sometimes a kit will take maybe 5 minutes to load instead of the usual 1 ort 2.

So yes, I have seen some variance in load times with identical kits but not as drastic as yours.

I would invest in an SSD (or two) if you have the time and/or the cash to do so. They can make a huge difference in the perceived speed of you entire machine.

-mike

Reply To: Presets Not Loading In At All version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.

[Mac McCormick]

I didn’t see a mention of how many and what kind of drives you are using. SSD’s can very much decrease load time in both cache mode and when loading entire kits. And obviously, the more samples you can simultaneously have in RAM the less bottleneck problems you will have. So upping the amount of Ram can certainly help.

But running 17 instances of SD3 will take a lot of processing power to run smoothly.
You might want to give us your complete computer specs: OS version , processor, drive count, types of drives, did you optimize your computer for audio, are you running any other apps in the background, etc.

If it’s an older/slower computer you could put 2 terabytes of RAM and you’d still have problems running 17 instances of SD3 along with Ableton. So knowing your specs can tell us a lot about what to recommend.

-mike

Reply To: Multiple SD3 Instances slowing down computer version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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