[Mick Layman]

Hey as mentioned Im using both SD3 with the Roland TD50x as a over lay to spice up the SD3 sounds for live, and you can quickly change sounds from the Roland rather than re configuring a new preset and or kit which u need to set up all the midi outs, EQ from SD3 mixer and positional censoring AGAIN?
Just setting up the presets in SD3 can take hours to dial in man. well for me anyway.
But if you put in the effort and the more you do this , then its there if you wanna change kits for songs in SD3 , once you try it you will see what I mean.
I don’t have any noticeable latency, (if you do send me a screen shot of your set up and Ill check it against mine)  it only issue that i came across was I was using an old 2011 mackbook pro and once I loaded it up with Sd3, software for Xr18 and the 160 professional Ableton backing tracks it was glitching even after I upgraded to 16MB ram and 1TB. doh?
Im using the newest MacBook Air 8GB ram M1 Chip, and 500? SSD and its fine its about 3/4 full on the SSD ,  . But get the mac right straight up if you can once you figure out what U will be running on it for studio use or live.

Sorry @Chris, yes you should absolutely be able to use that TD50, in fact its a smart way to go. less stuff to work out in your heads CPU lol. I have not done this way yet , but 1 tip is, solo each channel in SD3, one by one and work through them 1 at a time, you can then see where the kick  for example is getting signal on a visual level in the TD50 without any other bleeds OH, or AMB inferences complicating things. There is also a global setting in the TD50x module that you have to turn off in order to have just the SD3 sound come through, make sure you restart the module to have this new setting take effect!

[Mick Layman]

hi , I feel your pain, i had to work all this out myself.
I use it the other way around. as in.

I have a stereo out form the Td50X and have the SD3 going in to digital mixer with the SD3 as seperate channels.

this way you get the real drum sounds for those insane SD3 kits and you can then blend over the top the Roland sound with your sliders on the module.

I have not tried the outs straight of the Roland yet, but haven’t had the desire to cause I got the 18 ch digital mixer. Behringer xr18Air…

Man its so hard to explain this over a email, I wish toontracks had a zoom option they could made 10x more on helping people set this up than actual sales of the software.

Where abouts are you located?

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