Topic: Bugs in SD3

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Replied September 27, 2017 at 09:35 #1998361

John
Moderator

@Michael said:
Finally is there a way to multichannel out the Mixer Outputs to different auxes in ProTools? Not the individual mixer channels, but the SD3 Mixer Outputs so I can take advantage of some of your effects on those Mixer Outputs.

Hi,

you create either new Instrument Tracks or Aux Tracks in your Pro Tools mixer, then you set their Audio Input to the desired plugin output from SD3.
E.g. you have set up a Reverb on your Bus 3 in the SD3 mixer and you want to have this Reverb return on a separate fader in the Pro Tools mixer.
Go to your Bus 3 in the SD3 mixer and at the bottom of the fader you change the output to Out 3/4.
In the Pro Tools mixer, you create a Stereo Aux Track and set the Input of this track to plugin output > Superior 3 > 3/4.

If you would like to have other Buses or individual faders in the SD3 mixer on separate faders in the Pro Tools, you do it the same way.
Another example; you want the Snare faders from the SD3 mixer on a separate fader in PT.
I would create a Mono Instrument Track in PT and set the Input of this track to plugin output > Superior 3 > 3/4.L.
Then I’d pan the Snare faders hard left in the SD3 mixer and change their outputs to Out 3/4.
In PT, I would also set the MIDI Output of this new Instrument Track to the Superior 3 plugin, in case I want to program the Snare hits on a separate track.

I hope this helps,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied September 27, 2017 at 18:27 #1998388

Michael
Participant

Thanks for the info John. I’ve set up SD2 and EZ2 for the last few years that way, just wasn’t sure about the bus thing. I will check that out.

Do you have any issues where if you first load a SD3 preset with lots of effects on the preset, switch to the ‘stereo’ mixer right away and all those busses aren’t working anymore in the SD3 mixer, even if everything is set to output 1/2? Not touching anything, but load a preset and then switch the mixer to ‘stereo’ and every buss doesn’t work all of the sudden?

Thanks!

Replied September 28, 2017 at 09:20 #1998406

John
Moderator

Well, ‘issue’ is not the correct way to describe it.
The ‘Stereo’ and ‘Multichannel’ output presets are just that. If you have any SD3 Preset with a setup with faders going to Buses, then apply the ‘Multichannel’ output preset, which will direct the individual mic faders to different outputs per instrument, then it will naturally break the mixer part of the preset.
Just selecting the ‘Stereo’ output preset again will simply direct all faders to the 1 st Stereo output and the faders previously routed to Buses for EQ and Compression will not be routed to them.
Remember, those are just output presets, not enabling or disabling the actual plug-in outputs.
If you wish to have FX, EQ, Comp etc intact but on separate outputs, please learn how to direct the Buses to separate outputs.
BTW, these outputs can have FX, Comp, EQ on them as well before going to the DAW mixer.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied September 28, 2017 at 09:24 #1998407

Henrik
Participant

@Michael said:
…switch to the ‘stereo’ mixer right away and all those busses aren’t working anymore in the SD3 mixer, even if everything is set to output 1/2?

John is correct, but I can understand your question here. We will take a look at the options in the output menu , and try to make it more clear for the users!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

Replied September 28, 2017 at 18:17 #1998643

Michael
Participant

Thanks for the info. That clears up things for me. Can you save mixer presets in SD3 and what you send to different outputs in the SD3 mixer then?

Replied September 29, 2017 at 08:29 #1998671

Henrik
Participant

Not explicit mixer presets, but you can save a Drums and Mixer User Preset (the main presets that you see in the list next to the libraries). You can then load only the mixer part of that user preset, in the Load Parts menu (the button on the right side of the presets). You can even only load certain channels etc…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack
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