[Peter Lurye]

Ah, gotcha, thanks. Makes sense. Honestly, I don’t know that I would have ended up tweaking all that much was just… puzzled. Thanks!

Peter

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[Peter Lurye]

Thanks so much for the quick reply, Brad—I see the tracks in the mixer now. So, essentially, the samples for each of those mics are activated when you turn on bleed (on a per-drum) basis for those mics, and otherwise they won’t play? Do I have that right?

PL

Reply To: How do I use and adjust the surround/surround height samples in stereo mode? version: 3.3.7
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

• This post was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Peter Lurye.

[Peter Lurye]

Petter wrote:

The ability to mute notes in the Grid Editor was added in Superior Drummer version 3.3.0 in case you missed it!

WOW!! Faith in humanity restored—thanks! Also love the new MIDI tab in the Grooves Pane. SD3 is the best…

Cheers,

Peter

[Peter Lurye]

Jacy Smith wrote:

Peter Lurye wrote:

shapeshifterlive wrote:

Hi There, has this been implemented yet? Started editing on grid editor..the best for drums I’ve seen, but.. reeeeally need that mute feature 🙂 many thanks

It hasn’t. Can I suggest you file a support ticket to request it?

PL

That’s what this section of the forum (ie. Requests and Feedback) is for.

Indeed. I submitted a support ticket on this subject anyway. However, based on Scott’s recent response (as evidence that Toontrack is reading these messages), perhaps it’s not necessary…

[Peter Lurye]

shapeshifterlive wrote:

Hi There, has this been implemented yet? Started editing on grid editor..the best for drums I’ve seen, but.. reeeeally need that mute feature 🙂 many thanks

It hasn’t. Can I suggest you file a support ticket to request it?

PL

[Peter Lurye]

JD_51 wrote:

Imagine paying hundreds of dollars on SD3 and not being able to toggle a Mute tool. The workflow on this “top of the line” software is garbage. Should’ve researched more before I bought.

• This post was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by JD_51.

Respectfully, I gotta say I think that’s a pretty huge exaggeration. 🙂 I personally think SD3 is a mind-blowingly well-designed piece of software, which is why the lack of ability to mute notes in the grid editor is such a perplexing deficiency.  Don’t get me wrong—no one wants this feature more than I do, but I wouldn’t indict the whole VI for that…

PL

[Peter Lurye]

rootbass wrote:

I wanted to share a trick that I use, as it doesn’t seem like an additional request for note mute is going to do much good here haha

I just throw one element into the kit that I’m not going to use and leave the whole instrument muted. Then, I highlight the note(s) I want to mute and use the up or down arrow keys to move the selection to that muted channel without changing its location on the grid. Then you can easily move it back to the same spot on the original channel.

It’s a little more time consuming than being able to mute, but it’s still a pretty easy way to A/B ideas, like “Is it better with that extra kick hit in there?” (usually not ha)

Clever partial work-around–thanks! Sadly, not quite a substitute for true muting. Let’s say your groove has 8 different hihat strokes, and you’ve dragged a few of them to the “dummy” instrument you mention. Now you want to drag them back. You have to remember which strokes you dragged away, which would certainly be beyond my memory skills, anyway. I must say it is DEEPLY aggravating that 3.2.5 was just released, and muting notes in the grid editor wasn’t added. Anyway, I appreciate the out-of-the-box (off-the-grid?) thinking…

PL

• This post was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Peter Lurye.

[Peter Lurye]

PhilGDCT wrote:

Well, this post has been running for 2 years now… any hope of this feature becoming reality? Muting notes in the grid editor is way past due.

As a work-around, I’ve been selecting the “diamond” notes in the Grid Editor, then, in the velocity window, drag the mouse over all of the now blue note velocities (which is easy to do, and you don’t have to change each note individually), and drag the velocities to zero. It’s not perfect, yet it does allow me to keep the notes in place on the grid editor, and listen without the (now muted) notes. This only works well if all of the velocities are the same though. For myself, this is better than deleting and adding notes.

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Interesting technique! The only issue I see is that it would make it hard to tell at a glance which notes you’ve “muted” this way. In any case, I still feel as strongly about this issue as when I first commented on it, in 2019. BTW your dates are not quite right—this thread was started at the end of 2017(!), so it’s been over three years since the original post. The clock is ticking… 🙂

Peter

• This post was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Peter Lurye.

[Peter Lurye]

John wrote:

Also, it would be very helpful to be able to select separate tools (pointer, pencil, mute) quickly and toggle between them by holding down a key temporarily. For example, if the pointer tool is the default tool, holding down “control” would temporarily enable. the pencil tool; “option” would temporarily enable the mute tool.

Agreed— +1.

[Peter Lurye]

Has this been added yet? If not, please add me to the list who very strongly want this feature!

Thanks,

Peter

[Peter Lurye]

Good point! OK, you talked me into it—I support adding user-editable mute groups. 🙂 (Thanks.)

 

PL

Reply To: Adding snare roll to SD3 so that it will be cut off by other snare hits version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

[Peter Lurye]

Makes sense—thanks. Mostly I’d think the relevant scenarios would be instruments that have rolls (like snare, conga, cymbals) and hi-hats. However I guess it’s pretty unlikely that you’d want to take the open hi-hat articulation from one instrument and pair it with the closed hi-hat articulation from another. Or… would mute groups work in that instance?

PL

Reply To: Adding snare roll to SD3 so that it will be cut off by other snare hits version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

[Peter Lurye]

Thanks for the clear instructions! That worked fine for my purposes. Curious, though—since mute groups for hi-hats appear to be built into SD3, is there any particular reason you decided against allowing users to create their own mute groups?

 

Peter

Reply To: Adding snare roll to SD3 so that it will be cut off by other snare hits version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

[Peter Lurye]

Had the same question. As far as I can tell, that right-click tip was not to be found in the manual—great to know! However, wouldn’t it make sense for the straight/triplet option for the grid editor simply to track your quantization choice? I mean, now that I know, doesn’t really matter, but again, I couldn’t find that in the manual.

Thanks,
Peter

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