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@Mark King said:
I’ve just tried this on the Rock warehouse and they all look ok to me. Can you be more precise. Are you trying to insert them onto a single part of the kit?  

Hi Mark,

here is a screenshot of what I mean. The “Black Box” appears on some effects from the presets.

Regards Reiner

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@Plamen Todorov said:
Certain library presets are missing cymbal sounds. For example Tight/Dry -> Indie Dry (no only this one, but cant recall the rest now) has only the hi-hat working, the rest of the cymbals dosn’t play any sound.
They’re triggering just fine but no sound or whatsoever. I have installed only the core library. Could it be because the sound files are located somewhere else?

Some presets use microphones and mixers that are not enclosed in the basic sound library. Either install the missing library parts or change the microphone routing for this instruments.

Regards Reiner

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@John said:

But to move on: did you re-download the full installer and update before you ran the installers or did you use installers already on disk?
Was the EZX folder actually gone from disk after uninstall?
Am I understanding you correctly that this is the only library that takes unusually long to load?

BR.,
John  

I did an uninstall and deleted all the downloaded files now, downloaded the EZX and update new in the Product Manager and installed new – still the same problem.

I do not own other EZX or SDX, only the Classic EZX. It shows up in library view (in SD3, not in the Product Manager) with 2 entries: “The Classic EZX” and “The Classic 4Mic”. Kits of both entries load slow, all kits from the SD3 core load fast.

Regards Reiner

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@John said:

Please try downloading the 1.5.1 update again and run it.

BR,
John  

I did not find an option to only reinstall the update. Uninstall of EZX and the update and then reinstall both doesn’t change anything.

Regards Reiner

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@John said:
Hi,

that seems strange. I also have my EZX:s and some SDX:s on an SSD drive and do not see that long loading times.
Did you go into the Libraries settings and toggle the drive type?

BR,
John  

Hi John,

yes, drive type is set to SSD. In EZDrummer the load time of the library is much quicker. I use “The Classic EZX for Windows” Version 1.1.0 (2015-04-23) with a “Sound library update for Windows” Version 1.5.1 from 2014-06-05 (on’t know why the update is older than the prior version).

Regards Reiner

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@nexis said:
I bought a Western Digital SSD 1TB portable. It was expensive, but all that I’ve read and the research I’ve done say the larger drives have a longer life span. …fingers crossed!  

SSDs have limits about the number of write cycles per cell and this problems can be reduced if you use a larger drive so there is more free space to spread the written sectors. However even with heavy write load an SSD will last many years and using as a storage for SD3 is the best what can happen to an SSD: large data with near 100% read access.

Of course it’s always a good idea to buy larger drives… e.g. for storing some SDX

Regards Reiner

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@difab4 said:

I’m not a super techie but I would think the use of hub would not be the optimal choice. Why add any further delay or latency. Plug the drive directly in IMHO.  

I am using an Samsung T3 on a Windows 8.1 PC and can’t see any influence to speed using a hub or not. I get about 430 and 280 MB/s for read and write with and without hub, even when a 4 channel USB sound card, a USB drum module and a USB MIDI controller is attached to the same hub.

Regards Reiner

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@Kelly DeLay said:
Repeating what others have said here, I have a TD-25 module with SD3, using a VH-11 hi/hat. I have tried “Roland” “Generic” profiles in MIDI in/E-Drums Settings, changed the response curves. I cant get the CLOSED sound at all. Read through this thread, nothing is working for me. My TD-25 works perfectly. Any suggestions? Thanks.  

SD3 doesn’t use the MIDI notes to detect whether the HiHat is played open (26/46) or closed (22/42) but uses the value of the CC Channel of the HiHat controller. I use the VH-11 with a TD-15 module which is sending CC-values of 0..90 where SD3 expects values from 0..127 – so the HiHat is never recognized as “closed”.

You must adjust the CC curve in the MIDI mapping to fix this. It’s more a problem of the drum module than of SD3.

Regards Reiner

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@Hired Goon said:
I run a TD-20 with midi thru into a TD-3 and then into the computer.

I managed to use two devices now with using loopMIDI and MIDI-OX and doing the translation in MIDI-OX. This is a lot of configuration work too, but it can be saved as a preset. This solution is also good in handling different translation presets for tom mappings with 1..3 rack and 1..2 floor toms.

Regards Reiner

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@vinster_60445 said:
Yes I do, I have 2 instances of SD2 in Reaper one on channel 9 and one on channel 11, which makes a huge kit. It is startin to look like I will have to set up SD3 the same way. I will just have to spend some time and set up presets, unless my SD2 mapping presets move on over.

I see one problem with this configuration: you have to use two independent mixers. Thie means instruments from one kit cannot influence the other kit (bleeding, effects etc.). It might lead into performance and ressources issues as well.

I am dealing with the same problem at the moment: handling two MIDI devices with SD3. SD3 can handle multiple MIDI input devices, but as far as I’ve seen so far it can not use different mappings for each device. I think I will end up with assigning different notes to both devices. Hendrik mentioned a solution using different MIDI channels – I did not try this yet.

Regards Reiner

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