In Superior Drummer 3 i use the preview pad very often to audition my instrument, but in the current Superior Drummer 3 version, having to click each time to trigger a hit is very annoying when you want to hear several hits in a row (especially when moving up and down in velocity), not to mention that sometimes for some reason some hits are not triggered when i click my mouse.
What I’d like is an “arp(eggiator)” mode, which existed in Superior Drummer 2 in the “mapping” section (you could activate that mode by clicking the “arp” button on the left), where if you hold your left click, hits will be triggered one after another (you don’t have to click each time to trigger one hit).
To make this “arp(eggiator)” mode even better, something awesome would bea “speed” knob on the preview pad, which would change the speed of the hits (i.e how much time between each hit), so that you can go from really spaced-out hits, to a fast -paced snare roll. This knob was already present in the “mapping” section of Superior Drummer 2, next to the “ARP” button.
And then it would be even better if :
– you could engage the “ARP” mode on just by holding “shift”, so that you could switch between auditioning single hits (ARP mode off) and auditioning sequenced hits (ARP mode on) without having to reach the “ARP” button
– you could control that “speed” knob with your mouse wheel (maybe with a “learn” function ?), while still being able to use the left click hold on the velocity graph to audition hits in sequences (so that you can audition subsequent hits at one given velocity, and change the speed without having to reach the “speed” knob).
You can see the “speed” and “arp” in action in Superior Drummer 2 in the following video, starting at the 3″55 mark :
So basically, i’m just asking Toontrack to implement in SD3 something that existed in SD2 already (“arp” mode + “speed” knob for that “arp” mode), but with the addition of :
– being able to engage the “ARP” mode by just holding “shift”
– being able to control the “speed” knob with the mouse wheel without having to reach the speed knob.
