[Strato Incendus]

Hi everyone,

I’m facing a similar issue. I’ve used this same combination — “lower choke threshold” and “single choke mode” in Superior Drummer 3 on MacOS Catalina with an Efnote 3X. It works fine to choke the cymbals as long as the sounds on the edge and bow of the crash pad, or bell, edge, and bow of the ride pad, all belong to the same type of cymbal (such as bow and edge of the same crash, or ride bell, ride bow, ride edge).

What does not work, however, is choking if I assign a different type of cymbal to the edge than to the bow. For example, I like to put a splash sound on the edge of my left crash, another crash sound on my ride edge, and a china sound on the edge of my right crash. I’ve read that quite a few players seem to do this, to save on space and money that would otherwise be needed for additional cymbal pads (plus, some electronic drumsets can only be expanded so far before they run out of inputs anyway).

The additional cymbal sounds can be placed on the edges, but they cannot be choked — only the sounds on the bow can (which are the crash and ride sounds, respectively, but not the crash sound on the edge of the ride).

The strange thing is, this was no problem with my previous decade-old Roland drumset (TD-9): There it was perfectly possible to choke both the crashes and the splash/china/extra crash on the ride edge. So it must be something about the Efnote 3X. However, it can’t be the case that the aftertouch signal of the Efnote only applies to the bow of the pad in general — because, as I’ve stated, I can choke the edge sound, but only if the edge sound is a different articulation of the same cymbal type (such as ride bow, ride edge).

Any ideas on how to fix this, so that I don’t have to play with partially choke-able, partially non-choke-able cymbals?

Secondly, I still have my Metal Machinery and Avatar presets in Superior Drummer 2, since opening those projects in Superior Drummer 3 to transfer all the setting is not possible, for all I know. Superior Drummer 2, as far as I can tell, does not have this “lower choke threshold” option yet. Hence, when I’m using my Efnote 3X with Superior Drummer 2, I can’t seem to choke any cymbals at all. Is this just a hopeless case, or is there a way to make it work? Again, it was never an issue with the Roland TD-9.

If the problem is the low velocity of the Efnote aftertouch signals, are there any devices which could amplify that velocity? So that I don’t have to make any edits inside Superior Drummer 2 or 3 itself? (I’m still not sure this would solve the “bow can be choked, but edge with a different cymbal cannot” issue, since that one doesn’t seem to be related to the issue of lower-velocity aftertouch signals.)

Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

• This post was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Strato Incendus.

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