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[Robin Gardner]

It worked now when saving the toms with all the changes to tuning, pitch, etc.

Dont know why it didnt first time, must have done something wrong?

Thanks for your help!

[Robin Gardner]

Thanks for the replies!

I’m asking since I changed the toms but when recalling the presets the tuning, pitch, etc wasnt saved only the type of tom was saved, for example it was an Ayotte tom with certain dimensions, but I want to save the tuning, pitch, enevelope also with it the preset and hopefully in just one preset for each tom, like Ayotte Racktom 1, Ayotte Racktom 2, Ayotte Racktom 3, Ayotte Floortom 1 and Ayotte Floortom 2. So I can recall all their settings when starting over with a new Sd3 project!

But I will try again this evening! Thanks again!

//Robin Gardner

[Robin Gardner]

I actually figured it out for myself by just trying that, lol!

 

Thanks for your help, I noticed your reply today.

 

Kind regards from Robin Gardner

[Robin Gardner]

I love that album! The snare sounds a bit like a piccolo type of snare with lots of ring to it? Also a lot of rim shot sound to it? I’m not a drummer though… I have the album though, such a great album! I used to listen to over and over by the time it came out! Also listen to the song “Refrigerator Car” where you hear the drums without any other instruments… Maybe you could just sample it and the use the sample in Superior Drummer 3?

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[Robin Gardner]

Ohhh… Just found a video about “creating new channels in the Mixer”.

 

I’ve timestamped it:

 

/Robin Gardner

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[Robin Gardner]

One more thing… I think this video is really good in explaining how to customize your preset in Superior Drummer 3: https://youtu.be/K6eNzSTyLeA

/Robin Gardner

[Robin Gardner]

Hi!

I believe the channels are already there at your disposal, just “hidden away” in the Mixer-tab, since they are not in use.

Click “Edit Visibility” button and there you can for example “unhide” all channels.

But I would just “unhide” the channels I’m going to use and “hide” the all the others.

If you’re starting with the “default preset” I think most of them are probably not in use. But I dont think you will run out of channels, like “Instrument” channels and “Bus” channels.

I guess the number of channels also depend on if you choose stereo-out or multi-out to your DAW?

/Regards from Robin Gardner

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[Robin Gardner]

Hi there! I’m not at all any “SD3 genius” I’m afraid and I really struggling a lot with Superior Drummer 3, for about a year now… But recently I found some help when watching YouTube-videos by this guy (Mike Luke): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJJEAwANzFc9pXUF9lWohA

His english may not be the best but he has many videos about SD3 and seem to know a lot about how to work this piece of drum software. For example I learned a “one-trick-pony” to get me started using SD3 from one of his videos.

Goes like this… when in your DAW, open  Superior Drummer 3 as an VST instrument but keep it “none-multi out”. I don’t think it matters what you start with but I usually start with one of the “Clean Kits”, for example the “Pearl Default”, “Ayotte Default”, “Premier Default”, etc. Then I go down to “Part Preset” and from “Drum Kits” I for example choose “Pearl Masterworks” or “Premier Genista”. Those two seem to get me going quickly. Still the drums sound a bit luck luster though…

So the “trick” is to next add two compressors after each other on the inserts of “Out 1/2”. First the “Classic Comp”, then dirctly after that add “Comp 76”. Now it will add a lot of compression and volume too! So I’ll adjust the mix knob quite a lot, mostly on the “Comp 76” though because it makes it sound so hard otherwise… Well, after that I’ll change the “Envelope Release” for certain drum channels in the SD3-mixer and where I see fit. For example on the Toms, so they don’t have those “long, bad ringing” to them. Also might lower the release a bit on Amb channel. I might also get a different snare, maybe change the hi-hat, etc all depends on the song really… But, maybe add an EQ after the two compressors to get the drums a bit brighter overall with a high shelf and also remove some mud/boxiness. Still the toms could sound better imo! They seem to be the hardest to get exactly how I want them… I want them to sound big, lush & thunderous but without them getting in the way of other instruments and sound too boxy/hard/loud… That’s the tougher part imo! Still working on that…

Well… that’s what I’m doing lately with SD3. But nowadays I’m only mixing the drums inside Superior Drummer 3 and never send them out as multi channels to my DAW’s mixer (Cunase 10 Pro). My aim is to get the drum sound good before I do anything at all in the Cubase-mixer. That’s my goal nowadays anyway…

Well, keep up the work and in the end the result should only get better aswell!

//Many regards from Robin Gardner

Operating system: Windows 10

[Robin Gardner]

I use Cubase 10 Pro

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[Robin Gardner]

Hi! I’ve seen Fabfilters Q3 has a “piano roll” inside its plugin so you can find the pitch in keys when eq’uing… Maybe that can be used to find the key for each drum in Superior Drummer 3? However Ive never used that plugin, dont own it and its rather expensive too. But Ive seen plenty ppl say its their best EQ plugin so could be worth getting anyway. Or maybe they have a demo to try out before buying it? After finding the key note for each drum it’s just a simple matter of writing it down somewhere. Then that plugin should also makes it easy to tune each drum too… However I believe tuning by ear is better since Music is more about “feel” than anything else (imho). If it sounds bad keep tuning until its sounds good to your ears… But now I’m actually thinking about trying out the method of tuning using a plugin like Fabs Q3 or any other plugin for that matter… I use Cubase and it has some tuning plugins with it, maybe each DAW has one that could be used instead of bying a new one or there’s a freebie that can do it? I never tried it, always done it by ear…

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[Robin Gardner]

Think I found it on the “New York Studios Vol.3 SDX”, there’s a Rogers kit there. Nice! Have to check it out! Brian Downey used his Rogers drums on albums like “Bad Reputation onwards on other albums with Lizzy (according to an article I’ve just read: http://mikedolbear.com/british-drum-icons/drummer-brian-downey/

Also found a nice Gretch kit on the “The Rock Foundry SDX”. Brian Downey used Gretch on the Lizzy album “Fighting” according to the same article…

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[Robin Gardner]

Hi!

I just bought Superior Drummer 3 + the SSD disk, but without checking if its external… Lol! Rookie mistake! I really dont wanna dig into the computer adding internal stuff but will do if I have too… So, nice to know now (from this thread!) that it actually runs like an external hard disk through USB 3 (which I have on my newly bought Win10 Acer-computer).

Also compared Superior Drummer 3 to Superior Drummer 2 (which I have since a few Years back along with EZDrummer 2) and it’s a huge step up in every possible way as it seems! Cool! Looking really forward now to try out the new Superior Drummer 3 (in Cubase 10 Pro)! The sounds are more realistic right, like also the tuning of the drums and such are more realistic now?

Also cool to know that you can add more USB 3-ports via buying an extra hardware and install on the computer, I might do that since I Always need more USB-ports (especially this computer only has 2 “USB 3-ports” but I think like up to 8 “USB 2-ports”).

//Best regards from Robin Gardner.

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[Robin Gardner]

I’ve found Octobans in the “Reggae expansion”, nice! 🙂 Those kind of toms I was after, I guess!

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[Robin Gardner]

Yes there is!

But you have to search for it in Google or so… Sorry I can’t remember the name/address right now… But, search using words like “midi drums” or so… I got tons of free midi drums from that site a long time ago with bands like you’ve mentioned.

1) The first problem (for me anyway!) is that they might differ in quality sometimes and you sometimes need to correct them in the piano-roll window and move certsain drum parts to its correct “sound”. 2) Second problem is that they only play exactly like the tempo (BPM) you set in your DAW (but that’s very machine-like) but you could change that if you know how to do work with midi)… For “backing track” that’s totally okay though… For “demo’ing covers” that would probably be okay too…

But for a more professional cover song you really want to play more exacly like the original tempo (which kind of moves up and down between bars all the time since it was played live by a human drummer) which is never like a 100% “machine-like” tempo…

Thus, nowadays I prefer making my own drum patterns to a cover song. Basically using my EZdrummer 2 libraries (I have lots of those!). But first I manually create a “Tempo Track” within my DAW (Cubase 9.5 pro) using a Midi controller, etc. So then I have a “near perfect tempo” to start out from, Before adding my drum patterns… However, this takes a long time to get everything right, but sounds better in the end result (to me anyway!).

/Regards from Robin

[Robin Gardner]

Also interested in “castanets”, if you could upgrade Latin Percussion with that? 🙂

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