[Panufo]

I actually am a pretty experienced recording engineer. I just find that the mixer layout in SD3 doesn’t really correspond to  what you’d find in an old school analog studio. Or an old school Pro Tools multitrack session, at any rate. The accompanying screenshot depicts what I have access to in EZ, and I wonder if there’s anything in any SD3 kit that is similar.

Reply To: Is there a quick way to change the kit ambience in SD3 like EZ Drummer?  version: 3.3.2
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

[Panufo]

No, he’s quite right. I never used to have quite the same problems, even with GM MIDI kits back in the 90s. When sampling a drum the strokes should range from a whisper to a scream. I’m a recording engineer. I got SD because it’s difficult to record acoustic drums here in the basement compared to sequencing them, but I could always get more attack – BEFORE processing – just by hitting the drum hard enough. These great engineers – Massenberg, etc. – somehow dropped the ball, and it IS disappointing. I know it’s hard to accept that the Big Dogs could make a mistake, but these toms are making it hard to get the sort of sounds I need. If the processing is all I need (and I’ve spent lots of fruitless time trying to compress these toms into something big and bad), please send us your mixer presets that we may be enlightened. Respect. Oh, and I’m also a drummer, and I know what an unprocessed drum CAN sound like.

Reply To: My (little) frustration about SD3 version: 3.2.1
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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