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[John]

Hi,

are you not using the TD-27 MIDI Preset? If you are and modify it to save your own MIDI Preset, it “sticks” when switching Drums & Mixer Presets.
The Dark Industrial only has two Tom slots, so by Default Rack Tom hits from your kit would be directed to Tom 1 and Floor Tom hits to Tom 2, if I’m not mistaken.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

we’re all newbies at some point, ask away; this Forum is a place to (hopefully) get all the answers.

In the SD3 Core Library, all Cymbals have their ‘Close’ signal in the Stereo ‘OH Dyn’ Microphone/Mixer Channel.

The other Instruments can have their Bleed turned Off in this Channel but not the Cymbals. Their respective Volume can be changed though, as you see in my screen shot above.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, some SDX:s have been recorded with e.g. the Ride Cymbal having its own separate microphone/Mixer Channel.

If you really want to have a specific Cymbal on its own Channel in the Mixer, it is possible but requires some steps.
Right-click the Cymbal in question and navigate to ‘Route Instrument Microphones…’
This will bring up the selected Cymbals possible Close and Bleed routings. Apart from turning off a bleed signal you can click to the right of the ‘Close’ signal and select ‘Create New Channel’ at the bottom.
This will insert a new Channel in the Mixer with only the Close signal from the Cymbal, no Bleed. All Bleed from this Cymbal is still routed to the various microphones around the Kit, unless you turn them off or re-route them.
Your new Channel can be re-named by double-clicking its name in the Mixer and this Channel can be independently panned in the Mixer.
Things to bear in mind:
– this will not change how the Kit was recorded so if you pan a Cymbal that was recorded on the left side of the Kit to the right side, the Cymbal’s Bleed will still behave as how it was recorded, unless you create new Channels for the Bleeds as well.
– if you have EQ/FX/Sends on the OH Dyn Channel, you will have to copy these to your new Channel(s), plus I would check the routing of the Mixer Channel if you are starting from a Preset.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

adding to Mick’s post: when you select a Preset in the upper right corner, it sets the Drums and Mixer up. It does not populate the Song Track with grooves.

When you select the Infinity Grid EZX grooves in the Grooves browser, the Filter Column categories that have no corresponding type of grooves get greyed out.
I.e. you can’t select any Disco Count-Ins because there aren’t any in that main folder.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

Toontrack MIDI packs are designed to work with Toontrack Instruments. If you do not have one, these MIDI packs are not for you.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi John,

which MIDI packs are we talking about? Or is it libraries? How did you install them, with the Product Manager application?
Can you provide screen shots?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[John]

Hi David,

when it comes to Superior SDX:s, it’s a bit easier, since they don’t need to be in a specific “HOME” directory like the EZ line.
You can move the main ‘SL-Xxxx’ folder to the new location and when you start SD3, you will not be prompted to locate it but you can visit the Settings > Libraries/Paths page to Change Path.
BTW, your all your Toontrack MIDI ends up in the ‘EZdrummer/Midi’ folder, even the MIDI included with SD3.

More info in the manual: https://www.toontrack.com/manual/superior-drummer-3/9/9-3-settings-2/9-3-5-libraries-settings-tab

BR,
John

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[John]

TO THE OP: Sorry for going on here about something that isn’t related to your question.

Ah, sorry, I have been doing this for so long I call things by obsolete names.
The GM Extended drum map is what became the Toontrack Standard mapping when EZdrummer came along (if memory serves me right).
This was intended to build on GM standard but scrapping the percussion notes giving room for more drum articulations across multiple products.
I see what you mean with note#50 being High Tom in GM and Crash Muted Hit in Toontrack Standard.
There are 6 Tom notes in GM and 5 in Toontrack Standard.
Regarding the China on note #52 in GM, (in i.e. Jazz Sessions the China is mapped to #52) I would assume far from all TT products had a China present and I guess at some point an internal standard had to be set for widest compatibility and with the possibility of making your own MIDI map presets, it wouldn’t pose a big problem, right? Or am I missing something?

The Generic (CC Hi-Hat) MIDI Preset maps note#50 to a high tom note if present in the currently loaded kit. The Generic (No CC) doesn’t. Hopefully a colleague can shed som light over this.
IMHO, the Standard mapping and substitution scheme works surprisingly well across, given that there are products with everything from 2 Toms/Cymbals to 13 Toms/15 Cymbals.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi David,

that folder contains the Sounds and MIDI for EZdrummer 2 (and 3 if you have it installed), so I am not sure what you have moved earlier. The application itself resides in Applications/Toontrack/. The plug-in components in other locations.
The procedure for moving Sounds (+MIDI) for EZdrummer 2/3, EZbass and EZkeys 2 are the same; move their respective “HOME” folders from the Default location in Library/Application Support/ to the new location, then launch the app and point it to the new location.

BR,
John

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[John]

OK,

I am also on Sequoia and have yet to be able to reproduce what is happening to you.
Do you still have an open Ticket with Toontrack Support?
If you have tried deleting the AU cache and rebooted, then a Reset & Rescan in the Plug-in Manager, the only other thing I could find related to having GUI problems in Logic 11.2.2 (which seems quite a few have), is to delete the
com.apple.logic10.plist and com.apple.logic.pro.cs Preference files and reboot.
If you want to try this, open Finder and press Shift+Cmd+G and paste ~/Library/Preferences.
You can Search the Finder window for ‘logic’ which makes them easier to find.

BR,
John

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[John]

Hi,

if you have copied that folder with all its content and structure intact to your external SSD, you can delete it and then open the EZdrummer 2 standalone. You should now be prompted to locate the ‘EZdrummer’ folder on your external drive.

BR,
John

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