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[godprobe]

Generally, the Battery kits I have (whether the kit pieces themselves correspond or not) are mapped similar to the GM Drums standard, so for the most part, the grooves “should” actually work.  If not, there’s the method through EZplayer that Scott mentions.

However, in my experience (and I love using Battery and Superior together), it’s easier to manually program the Battery parts.  I’m not at all well-versed in Cubase, so I don’t know how easy it is to edit the MIDI grooves within it, but I assume it’s fairly similar to Reaper.  My process is usually to click through the Battery kits until I find one that complements the sound I’m after (sometimes I’ll have the analog drum part already, sometimes not, usually it’s still a placeholder) — then program a basic beat manually in the Piano Roll in Reaper.  Copy/paste as necessary, and continually refine it until it fits the song (doesn’t sound too repetitive, has an effective selection of the samples from the Battery kit, and carries the overall mood I’m trying to achieve).  And that sounds more idyllic than it is — there’s plenty of trial and error. 🙂

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

[godprobe]

for the most part (like 99% of the part :D) you’re exactly right
for re-enabling used authorizations, Toontrack is very reasonable with them; you basically just have to ask

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

[godprobe]

Hi Gajet,
Can you double-check your country/currency selection in your account settings?…
https://www.toontrack.com/account.asp

I just temporarily switched mine over to Australia and get the €89 price both on the site and in the cart.
I know when this version of the Toontrack site design first went up, I had to adjust the country/currency thing — by default, it said “U.S.” but was showing British pounds here.  If that doesn’t work, try clearing your browser cookies and double-checking that the browser can actually store cookies for the Toontrack site.

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

[godprobe]

I’ve never messed with drum triggers, so I’m not sure if they’re at all similar to footswitches, but if they are, would this work?
http://www.midisolutions.com/prodf8.htm
(330 USD + shipping)

…not sure if it’s *just* switches that it’s compatible with… i.e. on/off, and so no possibility of velocity data

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

[godprobe]

If you have EZplayer Pro (free with Superior), that has a mapping conversion from the Toontrack MIDI to other formats.

For the most part, things match up pretty well with GM in the first place though.
Here’s a spreadsheet of (nearly) all of Toontrack’s SD/EZ releases showing the basic default mapping for each…
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsWMEXuWvqSIdFBaNnBhTFBBZXJZb1F0UThzVXhibmc&hl=en

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

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[godprobe]

Well, I don’t have a track template, but I do have MIDI notemaps to share! 🙂
http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

Also, here’s a screenie of the layout I was using for multichannel for a while, as well as some feedback comments from others on what was and wasn’t working with my ideas for my setup…
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=35779
…but these days, I usually just run stereo and leave the individual channel tweaks to Superior’s built-in mixer.

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

[godprobe]

If you check my Notemap spreadsheet…
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsWMEXuWvqSIdFBaNnBhTFBBZXJZb1F0UThzVXhibmc&hl=en
…you can just do a search for the word “crescendo” and mostly see which expansions have that articulation for a kit piece.
They mostly *aren’t* on Crash cymbals though.  I think Latin Percussion, mentioned above, and DFH EZXes are your best bets.

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

[godprobe]

http://www.kvraudio.com/

a sample KVR search… (doesn’t work as a proper link on this forum, so copy/paste)
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php?mode=results&st=adv&soft%5B%5D=i&type%5B%5D=37&type%5B%5D=1&type%5B%5D=5&type%5B%5D=34&type%5B%5D=42&type%5B%5D=57&type%5B%5D=24&type%5B%5D=47&type%5B%5D=92&type%5B%5D=35&type%5B%5D=48&type%5B%5D=30&type%5B%5D=2&f%5B%5D=vst&win=1&free=1&com=1&sf=0&receptor=&de=0&sort=1&rpp=60

and KVR’s listing of the top 10 Windows Instruments (many are synths) as rated by users…
http://www.kvraudio.com/plugin-ranks.php?show=10&os=2

try not to drive yourself crazy with all the options

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

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