[Timothy Buckman]

Finding what groove was used within a DAW is an ongoing issue. Maybe it has been resolved in SD3, but in SD2 it is incredibly frustrating. I have old projects that have grooves placed in them with coded abbreviations that I can’t match to anything in my SD2 Groove Library for some reason. Admittedly, I haven’t tried every single groove in my entire library, but generally I’ve found that a MIDI region in Logic will take a name such as MCU_***** for any of the grooves taken from the Music City Drum grooves file and that is somewhat helpful to know/recognize those abbreviations, but as I said, I have old projects that begin with letters that don’t match any groove library in my collection. That makes it a huge pain to track down which grooves were used.

And while I’d love to follow John’s link above to see his explanation and whether or not it applies to my situation, Toontrack’s forum has made it so that I am not able to view that thread because I don’t own EZDrummer. Frankly, I’ve never experienced being blocked from a forum where I own multiple products but not the specific one being referenced. I find that incredibly odd.

I absolutely love the sounds in SD2 and find the grooves incredibly useful, but Toontrack does seem to have missed a crucial part of this workflow. I have remedied it for myself as I’ve moved forward, but my old projects are still a pain to pull up and rework when I have to. If anyone has found a useful solution that can be made visible for those of us who own SD2, I would certainly appreciate it as I generally check this forum about twice a year to see if anyone has a better answer than “hunt and peck.”

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