@LeanderL said:
Hey!

Hi!

1) I’ve downloaded the whole library now. Are the channels Amb Ribbon and Amb Mid the surround channels or what are they in the mixer so I can see the difference between surround and without? If I delete the surround files again, will I still see the mixer sliders and can I use them for something else?
I don’t know how surround works. I have normal stereo monitors…if I change surround sliders…and it sounds good on my monitors, might it sound bad on someone’s system with surround monitors?

No, the Amb mics are regular Ambience microphones you would find in any “normal” setup.
The Surround microphones are named Front L/R, Center, Surround L/R, Front Height, Rear Height and Rear Ht Wide.
If you do not see them in the mixer you are currently working with, please click the ‘Edit Visibility’ button over the Mixer to deselect ‘Hide’ for those faders.
To hear how any of those microphones sounds in your Stereo setup, just select them and enable the Bleed – from all instruments or a few select.
And no, what you hear in your Stereo setup will be heard in the same way on another person’s setup, even if they have more monitors, 5.1 or 11.1.
For the Surround channels to actually be Surround channels, you need to output them accordingly, i.e. Stereo is a 2-channel file/mix and 5.1 Surround is a 5+1 channel file/mix.
So, no worries.

2) Is bleed from instruments automatically disabled and you have to adjust it yourself or can you load the preset creator’s own setting, for example Andy Sneap’s idea how to use bleeding?

Well, no. The Presets all use Bleed a bit sparingly, IIRC but I guess that’s also part of the fact that additional bleeds are an option.
Andy Sneap most likely only uses bleed on the Snare channels in his presets. And of course the AMB mics where all instruments are ‘Bleed’.
You are free to add or remove bleeds as you wish, though.

3) I don’t have that much space on my SDD. Can I only use the core library from there and have surround and bleeding on my normal HDD like now?

While you can install the SD3 Library to any location, it is not possible to install different portions of the library to different locations on your computer,

4) The SD3 interface only shows 7 cymbals whereas you have many more in Metal Foundry’s. I know you can import new kit pieces but they are only shown on the left. In SD2 you could add x-drums and move them accordingly.

Sorry, you can’t manually move drums around in the interface on the Drums page.

Can you place more cymbals in SD3? It’s cosmetic only but it just looks better if drum pieces are part of the kit, beautifully place than rather have them on the left side of the screen.
Oh, and having two bass drums next to each other would be nice too (just like in Metal Foundry).
A kit with a ton of cymbals like you can in MF just looks awesome! 🙂  

Well, I guess you could start with the MF Library and replace the drums with SD3 Core Library drums but as I wrote above, manually moving instruments around is not possible.