Ole Kirkeby
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Ole KirkebyDamian, I will have to take your word for that. I played a piccolo snare 30 years ago (!) and at the time they were only used for a high-pitched sound with a sharp attack. I have just made an attempt to find out about modern piccolos, and there is indeed now a type called ‘power piccolos’ which are deep but with a narrower diameter, even down to 10″. So I am willing to accept that the 7 x 13 Drum Gear snare can sound like what I think is a piccolo. However, I am still not convinced that a 3.5 x 14 piccolo can sound like it does in the Toontrack library when it is tuned low. And in any case, the picture you show in the EZX Dark Matter kit is not a piccolo. It is correct in SDX Darkness kit. The sound of the snare is the same in the two kits. See attached screenshots.
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Ole KirkebyJack, fair point. I just don’t want to be seen as someone who complains all the time. And there is no hurry in this case.
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Ole KirkebyRobert and Jack, by unanimous verdict I will contact Toontrack sometime next week if they don’t magically turn up on this thread in the meantime.
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Ole KirkebyRobert, should I contact Toontrack’s support? I thought somebody from the company would monitor these forums so they would notice my post here.
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Ole KirkebyNope. A piccolo doesn’t sound like that. You are obviously not a drummer.
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Ole KirkebyOn this thread one of the attachments I thought I had added is missing. That is my mistake, sorry. The file is still in my Pictures folder so for reference I now add it again.
I have finally found a way to specify the path to the EZX libraries. The problem is that you cannot change the path if the directory already exists. So you have to move the EZX directory, change the path to something random, move the EZX directory back, and then the SD3 plugin will allow you to set the correct path. The installation logic seems to be that the installation path is set in the SD3 plugin, and then the Product Installer reads that path from somewhere. That is totally backwards. The installation path should be set in the Product Installer.
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your patience and effort. You can close the ticket now.
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Thanked by: JohnOle KirkebyThe dropdown always looks as in the screenshot toontrack_ezx_path.png. And yet SD3 can find the EZX libraries installed in a different directory by the Product Manager.
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Ole KirkebyIt is a new computer. The VST plugins are on the internal SSD drive and the sound libraries are on a network drive.
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Ole KirkebyThanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately it doesn’t solve the problem. There is no option to set or change the path to the EZX library. The only way to make the EZX libraries visible in SD3 is by reinstalling them in the positions where they are already. So am I supposed to reinstall 27 EZX sound expansions?
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Ole KirkebyThanks very much for the quick reply. I am not too keen on the uninstall/install sequence since in Windows those operations are not as clean as they should be. In Superior Drummer 2 you can add library paths at any time which is a much nicer way to manage moving data to a different directory. I am sure you have a good reason for removing that option from SD 3 but from the user’s point of view it creates a problem that wasn’t there before. For now I will keep going with 11.5GB of unnecessary data on the program SSD drive.
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