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[wphall]

Hey John- Sorry for the delay. I had to do a bunch of travel and just finally got behind the kit last night (sad).

No clue why, but I sat down last night and banged away. No problems. No clue why as I “didn’t” change anything from the previous settings. Worked fine.

If this changes, I’ll probably open a different thread in the right section. But its working great.

Thx!
– Bill

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

Hey John- Finally had a chance to sit down and really dig in.

I’m definitely getting consistent audio jitter when playing “live”.

Setup:
– 2015 13″ MBP 3.1Ghz i7 16BG/512 10.13.4 – This machine was just wiped with a fresh install of OS X with very little added besides SD3
– Plantronics USB to Audio (just a basic USB to Audio Out Interface- Maybe this is the problem)
– Roland UM-ONE USB Midi interface
– Roland TD12 kit with various Roland Cymbal and Pad upgrades- Just a 5 piece kit with 3 cymbals and 1 single kick pedal (no crazy quad pumping)
– I’m playing the kit “live” through the TD-12
– Fresh and full install of SD3
– Sound libraries on External Samsung USB 3 SSD – This drive is only used to hold the SD3 sound library

Symptom:
– When playing “hard and fast” audio gets very jittery on a pretty consistent basis.
– Processor utilization hangs around 60% when playing “normal” and 88%-92% when playing at a faster rate with more fills – seems to get worse with lots of cymbals(?)

Other Info:
– I’ve played with the Buffer up to 1024. 1024 creates too much latency. Not sure I’m noticing much difference in jitter. Maybe less with 1024 but latency is way too high.
– Changing Buffer doesn’t seem to impact the processor utilization a whole lot.

Any thoughts, and any other info I can help with?

Thanks John.
– Bill

PS: Do you want me to move this to a different thread since its off topic? Thx.

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

Thanks John. I’ll play with it. Its an i7 2015 MBP 16/512 with external audio interface so upping the buffer should be fine.

Thanks. Will report back when I can finally get behind the kit.

BTW- SD 3 is overwhelmingly amazing. Killer job!
– Bill

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

Hey- Sorry for the delay…. kids and family got in the way of my drum time.

Everything appears except for the default EZ2 kit. Not a huge deal.

But, since everything is now up and running, I’m having brutal audio cutting/choppiness. Done zero troubleshooting. Only mentioned it in case you’ve seen this in the stand alone (not in a DAW) product. I quickly ran SD2 in Garageband for comparison (ok, so I’ve done very minimal troubleshooting) and there was no audio interruptions. Not sure why yet. Let me if there’s low hanging fruit I can look for.

Thx!

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

Howdy John- Thanks for the help.

Yes, you’re correct. I haven’t installed EZD2. And sorry, I forgot to mention that I did indeed change the SDX settings within SD3.

BUT… I accidentally restarted my machine this morning and then launched Product Manager. Now, PM is showing that I don’t have any updates to install (strange). I had the update installers downloaded from last night so I launched them. Now it is showing the correct path in the installer. I guess do to the restart. When I went to bed last night, this was definitely not the case. The installers performed just fine.

So I guess this means its working ok? I’ll keep bumping around with it by installing the SDXs and see what happens.

Thanks!
– Bill

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

Well… If there going to be a sale, it would probably be now. TT is currently having a Superior sale, but I don’t think any of the platforms are included in this. Just SDXs.

This is software is worth $$$$. $199 is so amazingly fair considering the current world of High Tech greed from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Etc… Look at Apple, the purposely don’t include 32GB phone so people have to buy the 64 instead. Thus, their line (was): 16, 64, 128. They have data that 32 is the sweet spot and is where most people start. Thus, they offered a 16 which no one wants and forced people to spend $100 more. AND, they keep adding features to fill up your iCloud automatically so people have to buy a monthly subscription.

Now, let’s look at Google… they purposely completely eliminated the entire right side of paid google search results. Why? Because it forces their marketplace competitiveness by 300%. Thus, bids drastically went up for ad space overnight. Wham, they just decided to force users to click next page more AND forced ad bidders to pay more. And wait, there is more… they are making money off of your data. You have a “Free” gmail and/or Google Drive account… this is so they can scan your stuff to show you more ads. Thank you for sharing your stuff.

Toontrack is simply saying, “Hey guys, if you’re going to upgrade, upgrade in the next 6mo.” That’s it. I just don’t think its all that much to ask considering how much in time and money they had to shell out BEFORE ever making a dime to build all this. HUGE risk on their part.

Anyway… bla bla bla… its $199 and is the single best bargain in tech right now.

Hope this helps.

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

People complaining about the cost of SD is totally annoying. This is NOT disgraceful… we should be thanking Toontrack for NOT being greedy.

Why isn’t Toontrack being greedy you might ask? For two reasons:
– First (and this is huge): They aren’t being jerks and switching to a subscription model. THANK YOU TOONTRACK! Seriously, thank you! Adobe, MS, etc.. now they are greedy.
– Second: For the price, this is the single most amazing piece of drumming software available today. The amount of work that has gone into this is second to none.

Think of it like this… Toontrack could easily have done 2 things here:
– Gone to subscription- Again, thank you!
– Called SD3 SDPro and completely eliminated upgrades altogether.

So, I’d like to say, “Thank you Toontrack for the awesome software and NOT being jerks. Please keep up the awesome work!”

Just my 2cents.

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

[wphall]

Thx! Just wanted to make sure I didn’t miss the location to download an updated version. So, reads like it coming

Thanks!

2015 MacBook Pro: 16/512ssd, EZ2, SD2, SD3

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