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There is no dedicated “choke” for instruments other than cymbals, but you could try and experiment with the “Smoothing” and “Envelope” settings in the sidebar to get what you’re after.

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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Sounds good to me. If you’re exporting with bleeds, you may want to adjust the relative volumes of the cymbals in each drum to reinforce your preferred panning. (Although that depends on how detailed you need to get and for the most part I find it’s not really necessary or worth the effort.)

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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Cymbals in SD3 are notoriously weak in terms of relative volume. What I usually do is bump up the overheads dramatically (up to +10), and reduce the volume of the other drums in the OH mixer channel(s), and call it a day.

Alternatively, you could select each cymbal separately and increase the volume in the sidebar. The effect is subtly different; I find that going through the mixer makes for a more pleasant (less harsh) balance.

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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I would leave the Voice and Layers controls well alone. By limiting those, you’re basically forcing the software to “machine gun”, as you have noticed. I can’t think of any good reason to mess with those settings, unless you’re deliberately trying to achieve a robotic, digital sound.

Your best option to get a “staccato” hihat that still sounds natural is to use a steady Velocity for each hit, and make sure you use the same Articulation throughout.

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Also make sure you’re not loading your kits in 16 bits. It saves RAM but the noise is nasty.

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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Bumping this up because this is something I had to deal with recently, and it’s frankly ridiculous that we have to manually delete files to uninstall a part of the Core Library. Seriously, you want us to locate a random number of .obw files and delete those? With no indication of what they are?? You guys spent all that time and money building a fancy Product Manager application, and none of you thought to implement an Uninstall feature for parts? Major oversight, and I really do hope you fix this in a future update.

As it stands, I was able to locate the files to delete by looking at the DATE they were installed, but COME ON. This is basic stuff. Get it together.

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You can also tweak the Velocity Curve on the snare so that the ghost notes play back more softly.

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This is actually quite a common problem with using “Xdrums” from expansion libraries. In virtually all cases, they’re recorded in different rooms with different acoustic characteristics, and getting them to blend together can be quite a challenge, especially if you rely heavily on the ambient mics. It gets a little easier if you only use the direct mics for each instrument and create an artificial “room” using a reverb plugin.

Of course this all depends on the kind of music you make and the sound you’re after. Me, personally, I find it’s almost never worth the effort to use Xdrums for this exact reason. It’s far easier for me to pick a drum kit, from whichever library, and use it as a single coherent piece. But, as Jord mentions above, sometimes wildly different sounding samples can be exactly what you’re after, and that’s fine too.

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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The kit mappings in SD3 are a helpful guide, nothing more. Unless you have a physical setup with 5 tom pads and 5 cymbals, there’s simply no way that those mappings will correspond to your triggers perfectly. (And that’s just the Core Library, never mind any expansions you may own.) I would use them as a starting point and confirm or remap according to your specific pad configuration.
Once everything is mapped and set up to your liking, be sure to save your settings as a User Preset! (And re-save every time you make changes to it!)

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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I’m looking at refurbs at the moment. No reason to spend the big bucks to get something that will run Logic 10.5 and comes with 16GB RAM and 500GB storage. My current laptop is 11 years old and aside from a broken trackpad (and the fact that Apple no longer supports it) there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, so if I get a 5 year old Macbook I fully expect it to last at least another 8. Plus I would get all the old ports.

E-drummer. eDrumIn trigger interface with various Roland trigger pads. MacBook Pro (mid-2015); MacOS High Sierra; Logic Pro X 10.4.8. Superior Drummer user since 2009.

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Thanks all. Maybe it’s time for a computer upgrade then, because my current laptop won’t run anything newer than Logic 10.3.2.
I appreciate suggestions for other DAWs, but I already own Logic and have used it for many years, not feeling like switching at the moment.

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Yes, Logic can detect tempo on imported Audio files. I’m not aware that it can do so with MIDI.

As a workaround, I could bounce my recorded MIDI to Audio and find the tempo that way, but that seems needlessly convoluted.

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My kit is a frankenstein mishmash of Roland pieces I’ve accumulated over the years. Their stuff triggers really well and keeps it value for a long time, so buying/selling/upgrading on eBay or Reverb is a good way to get just the pieces you want. As soon as I tried the eDRUMin, I ditched my TD-9 and haven’t looked back. I can trigger rim/rimshot/hit on each and every mesh pad I own, I get bow/edge/bell on all my cymbals, positional sensing and the smoothest electronic hihat I’ve ever played. I highly recommend it.

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Erik wrote:

Hey monospace,

I’ve sent your request to our developers!

Maurockstar: This depends on your DAW. If your DAW forwards MIDI CC to Superior, then MIDI Learn should work.

Thanks Erik! I’m really enjoying playing around with Macros and MIDI learn but there are some things that I wish were possible that currently aren’t.

FWIW Midi learn works within Logic Pro. It takes a bit of effort, but if your control surface has “banks” you could set up different controls for SD3 and the DAW to really enhance your workflow.

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I’ve got a 2009 MacBook Pro. It’s still running fine. Sure, struggling to load a full bleed kit for live playing, but I can work my way around that. But I fully accept the fact that at some point, I will need to upgrade. But as others have said, it’s an investment. My future new Mac should hopefully last me another decade. I’m not that worried about the “silicon” upgrade, Apple have always been good with backward compatibility.

One thing I will never do is get a PC. They don’t last more than a few years, you constantly have to be aware of driver compatibility, and you end up spending more time dealing with stuff like AISO versions than with actually making music. Not for me, sorry.

But yeah man, I feel you. Still, you got a decade of use out of your old Mac, maybe get a refurb and go on for another 10 years.

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