Topic: Superior Drummer 3 Tracker – request for panning /stereo + spectrograph

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Determining hits via mono tracks without the option to pan is incredibly difficult, especially with only waveform visuals. Allowing tracks to be panned and played back in stereo ( for example, overheads, to help determine which cymbal is being struck; also for toms to help distinguish which tom is actual being hit versus which is only receiving bleed resonance,) would expedite the process of midi triggering tremendously. This is especially true for live recordings where additional bleed makes clean analysis even harder, forcing the user to spend more time manually analyzing each track.

Additionally, having a spectrograph would be invaluable, as each instrument clearly can be seen based on its spectrum signature. Recording funk/jazz drummers that play many ghost notes makes accurately analyzing each track very difficult in Tracker currently. I usually end up dumping the midi tracks with only the obvious snare hits, forgoing the ghost notes and lighter snare hits, bringing the midi tracks in to REAPER and utilize its dual spectrograph/waveform view. Then I pan snare hard right and kick hard left and listen for subtle differences between what may be a slight snare hit versus strictly a kick bleed on the snare. Lining up the hits exactly with the spectrograph is far more accurate than trying to judge where the transient actually is on the waveform. This is especially true on cymbal crashes, where bleed can mask the transient on the delayed attack of the cymbal crash, but the exact spectrum line is very clear cut on the spectrograph.

Superior Drummer 3 Tracker – request for panning /stereo + spectrograph

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