Positional Sensing in which SDXs/ Expansions/ Kits?

[Brian Girvan]

All,

I own Superior Drummer 2.0 core software and New York Studios Vol.2 SDX (along with a number of EZXs, not relevant here).
I use combined Roland TD15/TD12 to trigger SD.2 So far I’ve only been able to get positional sensing working with Avatar and Allaire kits but not with Hit Factory…I would like to buy more SD.2 software but am only interested in expansions/kits that allow positional sensing, so exactly which expansions would these be?

Support has not yet responded to this question so I am throwing it out to users, hoping for feedback. For e-drummers especially, this is quite an important issue, yet I am unable to find any comprehensive information about it anywhere.

Thanks

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[Olof Westman]

All SDXs except Hit Factory offer a simple version of positional sensing
for the snare. What this feature does is to allow CC control of whether
the Center or Edge articulation should be played. Hit Factory has no
Edge articulation, so there is nothing for positional sensing to do there.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

[Brian Girvan]

Wow!!!! Thanks so much for the quick response. Much Appreciated…I’ve seen a couple of posts that seem to suggest that neither ‘Custom& Vintage’ nor ‘Roots’ support positional sensing either.

Appreciated

[Olof Westman]

Ah, sorry, I forgot about C&V. True, it also lacks positional sensing.
Roots has it, though.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

[Brian Girvan]

Cool…thanks

[Brian Girvan]

Just got this response from Toontrack:

Hi Brian,
Sorry for the delay.
It is just the Hit Factory in NY vol. 2 SDX and Custom & Vintage SDX that don’t support positional sensing (Allaire from Ny Vol2 SDX does support it). Positional Sensing is broken in Roots though – It was fixed years ago but there has been no update for some reason.
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[Michael]

Don’t you think it’s important to mention in the spec sheet for the SDX’s? Surely it can’t be much effort to add this important information. I was disappointed today to discover today that Custom & Vintage does not support positional sensing – I realised when I saw that the only articulations for the C&V snares are center, rimshot and sidestick, whereas the core snares have Center, Off Center and Edge as well as rimshot and sidestick. I’ve always found the C&V kits to sound a little duller and less realistic than the Core kits and this explains why – disappointing after purchasing an expensive add-on that was meant to improve the sounds from the stock ones.

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