Superior Drummer 2
2016-06-10– tempo changes now better handled when bouncing through mixer. This affects only some of the EZX black boxes that react to tempo changes. – changing MIDI as numbers immediately updates the current assigned keys menu. – rare preset bug fixed. If there was a folder with presets among the user presets and this folder got sorted to be last in the menu, then any preset created during a session could not be deleted. – crash avoided if default lib is somehow broken enough to warrant a warning but that warning never get’s the time to display before another lib is loaded. – Unwanted focus grabbing in ProTools improved. – fix for pitch Reset. Should now reset only selected drums and not ‘Fix’ anything else by mistake. – fix for rare situation where an EZX1 could get stuck in an unauthorized state. – fix for crash when setting path to S1 libs. (Since 2.4.1) – fix for spurious appearance of non-working EZX POPROCK sometimes when EZdrummer 2 or its demo was installed. [— UPDATED: 2016-06-20 —] IMPORTANT: The current version is Superior 2 is 2.4.4 Known issues with version 2.4.4 – There are no known issues at this time Known issues with hosts – Acid 6: first note event may be ignored after dnd to host requiring manual extension of clip – Digital Performer 6: outputs become mono when the plugin window is closed in pre-rendering mode – Fruity Loops 8: error on dnd (sometimes leading to crash) – Logic 8/9: key commands may interfere with typing Authorization code (use Toontrack solo instead) – ProTools 7: erratic screen refresh when GUI is sitting on top of a PT window – Samplitude 8: loss of MIDI timing after drag and drop (fixed in Samplitude 8.3) – Sonar 8.5 64-bit: no sound through bitbridge (unsupported environment, use 64-bit plug-in) – Traktion 2: host lock up on drag and drop when ‘Real Time Property’ is ON
Version History – version 2.4.2 or above is required for Mac OS 10.10 and Windows 10 compatibility – version 2.4.0 or above is required for Mac OS 10.9 and Windows 8.1 compatibility – version 2.3.2 or above is required for Pro Tools 11 compatibility (AAX support) – version 2.3.1 or above is required for Mac OS 10.8 and Windows 8 compatibility – version 2.3.1 was the last version tested with Mac OS 10.5 – version 2.3.0 or above is required for Mac OS 10.7 and Windows 7 compatibility – version 2.2.3 or above is required for 64-bit operating systems / hosts support – version 2.2.2 or above is required for presets packs integration support – version 2.2.1 was the last version tested against Mac OS 10.4 – version 2.2.0 or above is required for Mac OS 10.6 compatibility – version 2.1.0 or above is required for Combined presets and SDX support – version 2.0.0 or above is required for Mac OS 10.5 and Windows Vista compatibility
2015-04-30– drag and drop works again on Mac 32-bit – dB display in Bounce tab works again – wording change in Mapping Tab: Delete -> Remove – wording change in Construction page: Key -> Note – 32-bit now states so as part of its version number
2015-11-05– fixed a bug to do with X-drum mics saving that could cause failure to reopen projects adequately in some circumstances. – deleting combined presets no longer lead to a crash when the operation cannot be completed.
2018-03-19– support for SDX expansion packs with included ’Stackpack’ samples – the Cocktail EZX now has Multiple Hits Emulation enabled – extra percussion sub-presets are now only added to factory combined presets of EZXs if EZDrummer is installed and authorized – extra percussion mics that are added for EZX combined presets are now sent to outputs 11-14, when multichannel is selected – the loop position in the groove browser is now working again – fix for clashes when both MHE and a slow attack is in use
2015-10-22– AAX version now ignores the Mono All setting (not relevant to ProTools) – AAX version on Windows should no longer crash if a new instance is created after you have loaded 2GB of sounds already – fix for faulty sends occuring after copying from a mono to stereo channel or after a send has been removed then reinstated – fix for issues when bouncing mute tails and swirls – progress bar during bounce should no longer disappears when the plug-in window is closed and reopened – Help Menu link ‘Content Providers’ changed to ‘Expand Superior Drummer’ and points to Superior Line Products page – busses can now have the same name as existing mic channels (names must still be unique within the same class) – during bounce each phase is described by the bounced files name rather than the corresponding mic name – special handling of right channel output names for Sonar X series and Ableton Live – the X-drum mic assignment window can now be scrolled if required – improved X-mics assignment from and to the special ‘Kit’ mics found in The Classic EZX – additional auto-allocation of X-mics rules to minimize manual assignments – change in the built-in configs for Pop/Rock in line with newly released EZX – updated Yamaha E-drum preset in line with EZdrummer 2 – support for EZdrummer
2018-03-19– the MIDI player now syncs properly when looping grooves in Cubase 7 – changing the routing in the mixer no longer requires the audio rendering to take a brief pause – opening/closing the preview pane no longer requires the audio rendering to take a brief pause – fixed a problem with mute tails and swirls in cache mode and when bouncing – the tools menu is now updated in all instances when a Combined preset is applied – bringing the Instrument volume (all Articulations) down to ‘OFF’ now preserves the relative levels of the articulations if it is brought back up again before the project is saved – inserting a new effect in the mixer also opens its window for editing (feature lost in 2.3.1) – the special handling of S1-legacy libraries when set to point to an SDX by mistake is working again (feature lost in 2.3.1) – the configuration of the legacy ‘S1 – Percussionist’ has been revised for an improved experience – the plug-in would crash at startup on certain Windows computer configurations
2012-11-26– improved syncing to the host timeline in Pro Tools – improved syncing in various hosts that may communicate transport info in an unusual manner – improved support of legacy Superior libraries (standardised default routing and some other aspects) – improved ‘auto’ assignment scheme of microphones when creating X-drums – using ‘unlimited’ layer limits could cause a crash when there were an unusually high number of samples in the layer – changing a X-drum ‘position’ selection repeatedly during loading of the sounds of the previous selection should no longer lead to a crash – editing multiple channels bleed setting at once when a X-mic channel was part of the selection should no longer lead to a crash – setting an invalid path to a legacy library (or the first SDX alphabetically) should no longer lead to a crash on creating a new X-drum – fixed a rare odd crash occurrence during sound loading that has been present since early versions of Superior 1 – fixed a bug that caused voices with a negative Offset to start up a buffer size early – fixed a memory leak in the mapping tab – when a preset can not be saved to disk due to permission issues a simple pop-up will now warn the user that their preset wasn’t saved – articulations without a beater or stick type associated to them, for example hihat pedal, should now work in the preview page – X-drums without a tool matching one available for the main kit can now be previewed – EZX-s and SDX-s that seems to be non functional (left over from incomplete uninstall process) no longer appear as valid Sound library selections – the mic allocation page now displays mics that only have a Close ‘right channel’ like the other Close mics – the bounce name of X-mics must now be unique. This should fix the problem whereas some X-mics didn’t bounce (earlier bounce files would be overwritten) – Changing volume of both the Crash Articulation and the Mute Tails articulations should no longer affect the quality of the mutes – using the envelope to fade the ‘tails’ of muted cymbals now works more reliably – resetting the pitch section should now redraw the pitch value correctly – authorization should now be more resilient to hardware changes, particularly when removable LAN cards are used
2018-03-19– fixes some reported bounce crashes related to the file selector dialogue – Superior should no longer crash when the editor is open while the plug-in GUI is closed in Reaper and Studio One 64-bit on Mac – selecting cymbals in the Classic 4 Mic EZX, which lacks close mics, should no longer lead to a crash – pitching sounds simultaneously in multiple instances (user defined or auto-resampling for project sample rate) should no longer cause a crash – clicking a “Missing Target” in a MidiNode should no longer lead to a crash – MidiNodes setup in such a way that the resulting transform would not be redirected to any sound should no longer result in playback glitches due to error logging – FX and sends dragged and dropped from one channel to another no longer end up in unexpected places when some channel groups are hidden – when applying bleed usage presets that enabled new mics while in Cache mode, velocity layers that were already loaded would not load the corresponding sounds in the new mics – checkmarks in the menus for bleed, usage and combined presets are now always cleared when a project is loaded – Fixed a bug writing bleed presets when there was a Mic starting with a digit (i.e Hit Factory 57-Out) – channel pressure should also work on X-drums and MidiNodes, as well as trigger the new mute tails – ADS-part of the envelope controls is now active on faded Mics – aftertouch assigned to the Mute articulation should now be restored in all cases – there should be no more spurious negative numbers on the bounce tab when leaving the window and re-entering it – the default memory limit has been set to off for the 64-bit – adjustments to POP/ROCK internal configurations have been made in order to improve MHE enabled playback results out of the box – the SemiSeq feature has been improved in several ways, including minimizing the likelihood of repeated hits and sub-pool mixing – the MY MIDIFILES folder is now assumed to sit in My Documents if it doesn’t exist in the traditional place and cannot be created there – fixed an occurrence of incorrect authorization request of S1-drummer – selecting S1-Drummer now places a checkmark in the library menu, as expected – for S1-Drummer, only the drumkit presets of the active sub-product are now available – the Loaded and Total Memory displays have been adjusted to fit values above 10GB – all file extensions are removed in the MIDI browser, including .head files found in some EZX-s – mouse wheels affect scrollbars better when the scrolled window is only slightly larger than the displayed window
2018-03-19– CPU surges due to using effects in the Mixer should no longer be encountered – fixed crashes occurring when nothing was routed to OUT 1/2 and the sampler rate was different than 44.1K – fixed a crash in the instrument preview handling when using non-updated early EZX-s – cured a family of bugs related to removing X-drums other than the last in order sequence – fixed a bug that caused crashes during bounces when there were more than 32 microphones – fixed an additional bouncing bug when X-mics were present in the project – the typeface used in the interface should no longer disappear when multiple hosts are accessing the plugin – S1 legacy path should no longer accept paths to a new generation SDX (or EZX for that matter) – articulations with only Hard and Soft hits should play back in a fashion closer to S1 and EZdrummer but with more consistent velvol response – gate and enable/disable buttons in the Velocity Ctrl section should now work on multiple selection and not just a single target – cancelling a Combined preset load will no longer result in a check mark for that preset – the X-Drum Sound Library menu gets its entries unchecked when a new X-drum is selected – the X-Drum Sound Library menu label is now a title only and can not be selected – layout on the Settings page has been revised to group related options together – MidiNode factory presets as finalized a couple of releases back are restored – it is now possible to rename a Mixer channel to its internal name – new E-drum MIDI preset mapping boosting improved support for hi-end Yamaha and Roland modules – includes changes related to mouse wheel events handling for improved operation (mostly obvious on Mac)
2018-03-19– crashes caused by incoming CC7 when the GUI is not visible – MidiNodes are reset as part of project loading, whether the SoundLib used is changed or not – the envelope value display no longer extends too far to the right when edited – stereo X-mics were sometimes not correctly treated, causing problems with sends and effects – bouncing and bleed editing should no longer be problematic for X-drums with a mixture of close and non-close mics assigned to the same mixer channel – overloaded transmute could use an unloaded hit on bounce and thus cause a crash, fixed – MIDI repository when EZdrummer is not present changed to a EZdrummer friendly location – ‘tooltips’ no longer remains in the original place if you operate another floater-enabled control – version numbers in the help menu should no longer display strange squares after the number – previous versions can now be installed for roll back purposes on Mac OS 10.6 – improved handling of registry virtualization under Windows Vista and Windows 7
2018-03-19– iMap MIDI preset offset fixed – the Memory Limit pop-up warning should no longer appear when the memory limit is off – the solo state of articulations is now fully restored when loading a project – Soft Vel and Pitching are now restored properly when loading a project – setting a Time Correction value should no longer affect playback detrimentally – changed the MidiNode broken link to all caps ‘MISSING TARGET’ – drag and drop of MIDI grooves should now work even when UAC is on – grooves with length different than a multiple of quarter notes should now loop appropriately – the tempo of the selected MIDI file is now remembered when the Sound Library is changed – rare CPU overloads in ProTools occurring when changing drums should no longer occur – playing an Instrument with SemiSeq active but not Random should no longer cause crashes – removed some rare crashes that occurred when changing kit or drums while playing – spurious noise at beginning of bounce should no longer occur – fixed a bug to do with bouncing, transmutes and bleed of non-close mics without room-time – a number of memory leaks have been removed – the ‘MY MIDIFILES’ Browser entry should no longer fail to be written by the installer on PC – Mac installer will attempt to repair EZdrummer symbolic link if probed as non functional
2018-03-19– fixed some occasional hangs on multicore machines when applying presets while sounds were loading – memory total updates while other graphic updates are being performed should no longer crash multi CPU systems – fixed a bug that caused crashes during bouncing and after using the Clear button to unload sounds – crashes in some hosts during probing of the plug-in fixed – occasional failure to start loading the sounds after changing library or kit pieces fixed – X-drums should more reliably start to load sounds after changing the drum type – memory pop-up that sets Caching mode and shuts down the loading is more reliable – X-drums in a loaded project should no longer behave as if they had a Voice Limit of 1 if some Mic was left unassigned – AudioUnitReset should ensure no ‘left-over’ playing occurs in Logic after stopping and starting back playback – cases where Usage presets wouldn’t take full effect fixed – effects of bleed usage changes in combined presets should now be visible immediately – MIDI preset ‘load selected’ should now work as intended also for the Clear and Default factory presets – selection of X-Drums now work when loading or saving MIDI preset – spurious prompts that memory limit was exceeded fixed (MemLoaded-6383 bug) – occasional failure to display the proper memory usage on loading combined presets – bleed edit ‘Construction mode’ now entered and left more reliably – fixed a bug that had effect on how long a hilite was displayed in the Classic Window – added alert dialog when loading a savefile or preset that makes use of a sound library not installed – added alert dialog when loading a project as combined preset made for a sound library different the one currently loaded – some tools selection silently sets the ‘Bottom wire snares’ state to minimise non-useful combinations – fixed rare savefile bug that resulted in sounds remaining unloaded and silent – bug fixed in code for machine specific preferences on Mac – selecting ‘steal second position’ has no effect – layer limits can be set to exclude unused Articulations – EZdrummer’s home is first checked in the plist when looking for EZXs on Mac – toolTip delay time halved from one second to half a second – various other special scenarios were crashes would occur
2018-03-19– AmbCorr now works for individual Mics and is saved and restored – bug that caused occasional crashes when applying a layer limit preset on a multi-core CPU – various changes regarding the loading of sounds as a consequence of a GUI action – X-drum pictures are now reset when projects are loaded – routing a Bus to another Bus to its left should no longer lead to issues with the right channel – fixed a bug in MIDI Alias reading that mainly affected reading of X-Drum presets – more of the MIDI mapping should now be restored when applying a X-Drum preset – the preset naming pop-up no longer acts on Return. Pressing OK is required (avoids crashes) – sidechains from pre 2.1 projects are now restore properly – setting the path to Sounds should now works using the root or Sounds folder on PC too – having an unauthorized Sound Library as default should no longer cause authorization issues
2018-03-19– Various bugfixes and improvements to the transmute, mainly in AMB mics and faded drums – Change to Distribution Groups, improving CC-hihats – Superior1 libraries renamed ‘S1 – Cocktail’, ‘S1 – Drummer’ and ‘S1 – Percussionist’ – In S1-Drummer, crash22 in Ride4 and Ride5 internal names are now unique – Clicking on an anchor point in the Envelope curve is enough to update the display – When ‘Felt Mallets’ is selected the ‘Bottom Wire Snares’ is deselected – Preview in Studio window accepts mouse wheel to control articulation choice – Improved handling of memory limit exceeded during a bounce – improved Mic auto-assignment for the X-drums – X-drums should look like more similar to what they do in their own sound library – Typing keys that are out of bound as notes (G#8 or above) is no longer possible – Mic assignment for the X-drums now shows ‘MixName’ instead of ‘Name’ – Mics that are ‘stereo out’ but not ‘stereo in’ will no longer receive a silent right channel when bounced – Bleed/usage/phase controls should no longer change more than the left side for stereo channels that don’t have their sounds as stereo files – The split selection is reset when changing Sound Library – Channel pressure is now part of bounce – Fixed a bounce bug, that after a bounce left the sampler in the state where sounds are loaded in the rendering thread instead of the demon thread – Local Machine directory created with full access rights on Mac – Better tolerance for non-ASCII characters in paths on MAC – Pressing Load when editing bleed in Cached mode now works better – Fixed bug in code that removes a trailing ‘Sounds’ from an input sound path – Fading a non-close mic, early in the mixer, no longer leads to malfunction of the transmute for the other mics – A negative Offset (envelope) along with pitching no longer leads to pops, crackles and crashes – Soloing something before applying a preset or a savefile for the same Sound Library no longer leads to issues – Solo and Mute in the Classic View are now updated when a control or Humanize preset is applied – Fixed bug that caused crash when selecting a drum without a Close mic with ‘EzMixer follows Selection’ active – Fixed the bug that caused newly assigned X-drum MIDI notes to not be written in presets or savefiles – All the ‘X-samplers’ are reset when X Pads are reset, fixes the crashes when changing Vol2 factory presets – Effects are now reset when the host asks the sampler to go mute. This should avoid ‘clicks’ – Possible bugfix for crashes while changing playing drums on a multi-core machine – Auth key comparison failure in some cases fixed
2018-03-19– MIDI communication in ProTools 7.4 PC resolved – improved performance on multiprocessor Mac in PT 7.4 – no longer fails to load samples while in cache mode – sync (humanize) between microphones in bounce files is now correct – hihat transmuting issue when ‘close’ sounds faded to digital silence faster than other mics – EQ no longer lead to intermittent CPU spikes – FX GUI calls use less CPU – solo buttons state on busses is now always refreshed properly – improved memory total estimates for X-Drums – memory estimates now reflects impact of pitch shifting – authorizing EZX from S2.0 now correctly authorize them for use in EZdrummer – parasite double-clicks are filtered off to yield expected results – optimized visual hits handling, hopefully improving accuracy and consistency – changing from Studio view to Classic view no longer holds MIDI for an instant – Sound library selection menu reset is fully enforced on loading host saved files – preset selection reset when a savefile is loaded – Studio View / ClassicView selection is remembered when GUI is closed down – improved substitutions scheme for legacy Superior sets
2018-03-19– bounced files no longer contain artifacts at high sample rate (48KHz or above) – bouncing at high sample rate (48KHz or above) no longer lead to crashes – opening/closing the edit bleed panes should no longer lead to crashes – loading thread no longer ignores articulations when a bleed-usage preset is applied – the infamous VintageRock-BlackBeauty crash – ability to recall saved files from Sonar track templates – muting channel bleed also affects Bounce result – master volumes manually set to 0db can now be recalled – MIDI note parsing no longer produce MIDI notes above 127 – it is now possible to overwrite presets – first click on tabs no longer trigger an instrument when switching tab (PT Mac) – switching mixer preset leads intermittently to no output from sampler – the current EZMixer Mic is now reset whenever swapping sound library – X-Drums created when a savefile is loaded no longer get their mics auto assigned – newly typed MIDI keys are now also displayed