In my experience, I have seen most drum channels on a mixer in mono. Why does SD3’s mixer talk about 16 stereo channels vs. the typical mono for drums?
The plugin has to report a number of outputs to the host and this can’t be changed “on-the-fly”. If you have Kontakt, you know that if you change the output configuration, you have to not only restart Kontakt but also your host.
The SD3 plugin is able to host any Toontrack SDX and EZX, as a whole and/or as parts. They all come with different microphone setups.
Every microphone configuration can fit into the 16 Stereo outputs (a Mono mic coming out on a Stereo output is still Mono) but if the plugin had a set of Mono outputs and Stereo outputs fitting one SDX and you then load another SDX and add a few extra samples or Import instruments from yet another expansion, that Microphone/output configuration would not work or make sense any more. Changing output configuration and restarting your host in between trying stuff out does not do wonders for your creativity.
Personally, I think the way it works gives me great flexibility.
Thanks for your reply but I am lost trying to understand what you are saying. Maybe the simpler way to ask about this is whether you can just create either a mono or stereo channel for each pad that will trigger the sample. Or is this just a fixed number (16) of stereo channels that can’t be modified?
I also don’t understand your references to SDX and EZX. Please elaborate on what these acronyms stand for.
sorry if I am unclear, the outputs from the plugin are fixed to 16 Stereo Outputs.
If you add a Mono source, be it an Instrument from another Toontrack expansion or your own sample, it will be a single Mono fader but its output will be Stereo, so you can either route it directly to an output or a bus.
An SDX is a library expansion for Superior Drummer and an EZX is a library expansion for EZdrummer. SD3 can load both types.
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