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[Olof Westman]

Presets are specific to an expansion. You cannot load or even access a preset from one SDX in another SDX.

(Well, you can access your user presets on disk and copy them from the location of one SDX to that of another
but it is higly doubtful that loading them will result in something that you like.)

If you have spent some time creating a special drum, say a snare, where you have applied an envelope to some articulations and some pitching to some others and stacked articluations with other sounds and balanced the velocity response so that the result is just awesome then you save it as a User Instrument. User Instruments are not specific to the current library. They can be loaded onto any position in any library.

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[Olof Westman]

First you select the cymbals you want to change. You do this in the main window displaying the drums ,or in the instrument menu, by SHIFT- or CTRL-clicking.

Then you go to the preset and its Select Parts menu. There you choose “Only Selected Instruments”.
(You probably also uncheck “Load Mixer” and “Load Macro Controls”.)

Then you press Load Parts.

(Actually, you can make or change your drum selection while you have the Select Parts menu open.)

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[Olof Westman]

The manual can be found towards the end of the SD3 product page in the shop.
https://www.toontrack.com/product/superior-drummer-3/

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[Olof Westman]

But the manual for SD3 is available before purchase, isn’t it?

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[Olof Westman]

Don’t worry. Trust John.

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[Olof Westman]

Just wanted to pointed out that this can be done in SD3 already. Unlike in SD2 all drums can have their microphones individually assigned.

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[Olof Westman]

veleev, your problem is caused by a special handling we have to do to support Ableton Live. Unlike other VST hosts and counter to the VST standard it can suspend a plug during the rendering call. So when Ableton Live calls ‘suspend’ we perform a special manouver to avoid crashing and, as a side effect, that results in that call taking 1 second in the case where Ableton Live *does* follow the VST standard.

So, actually, while being insane it doesn’t actually use any CPU.

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[Olof Westman]

You can also MIDI map the Tail articulation and hit it with a NoteOn to mute the cymbal. This is unusual but is occasionally used by people who cannot use any of the two main alternatives. E-drummers with lesser gear, I should think.

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