[Jussi Suhonen]

Hi.

Wishlist:

– ability to change whole kit dynamics (velocity range) with a single knob/setting, helps e-drums recording and reduces editing needs later as kit can be recorded in reduced velocity range, this is many times a real problem because velocity range is just too big when making records, compressors can’t handle the dynamic range it in the mixing stage and too much processing lowers the final result quality too much

– importing own wav files (triggering/layering with custom samples) made easier with ability to automatically adjust custom sample velocity to midi note velocity (=when importing custom sample, software makes automatically several velocity levels of the same sample so triggering/layering is more realistic). Triggering is needed usually because SD3 sounds are too ”good” for the production which makes them a bit too unnatural sounding.

– ability to automatically route additional kit parts to relevant mics (when I add additional snare, tom, ride etc. to kit, it automatically routes signals/bleeds to relevant other mics too, as bleed makes kit sound more natural, you could so this by drum type automatically, eg. added snare bleeds automatically to overheads, toms, hh mic etc. You could route things automatically to relevant mics by added instrument type.

– ability to adjust mic distance from source

– better handling of window size so that you don’t have to scroll up/down to see eg all the faders or track names

– midimapping is really hard and buggy, there should be better way to map drum module to sd3, there should be way to save and load custom midi maps with ease and midi maps should be saved to each kit by default so they auto-load on kit change. The need to customization of drum kits is rising now as e-drum technology keeps improving, that is big thing now as drummers want to find and custom their own voice and technology has ability to do this. SD3 is the right product to make these things available.

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