[Mani10]

I think this was mentioned before… I seem to remember trying this without much luck? But…. Today I tried using SD3 via Reaper (DAW). After adding a new track, then selecting SD3 under the add VST (FX) function, selecting midi to TD50 all channels and finally arming the record button—- all of my problems have been solved. I’m guessing Reaper uses a different ASIO driver and or it prioritizes SD3? I have no choppy stream of my samples, no discernible latency and all seems to be working. This is with 64 samples and 44.1 khz, the default sound card and no audio interface- minus my TD50 which is an audio interface I guess. Hope this helps someone.  I have a decent PC- 32gb ram, CPU 4.8-5.0 ghz- 8 cores.

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[Mani10]

Hey antanast,

These are the same exact figures I’m getting using a rather powerful PC with standard ASIO4ALL drivers connected directly to TD50 via USB 3.0. For me the latency is far too noticeable. I’ve tried $800 ish audio interfaces without better results using their drivers? I’m tempted to try a sound card directly to my PCI slot? I’ve managed to make the SD3 samples / latency playable by mixing them with onboard samples. After years of troubleshooting it seems that you’ll never be able to get the lack of latency of a roland module without having the samples loaded directly to the module? Which as far as I know is not possible. Let me know if you figure anything out.

[Mani10]

Hey, Are there plans or is it possible for a preset maybe? Roland modules give a hit for burying the beater and open for all other hits without SD3. So far SD3 doesn’t seem to recognize any hit articulations just a louder open articulation. Am I correct? To rectify this I have been forced to add a stack and put a gate something like 100-127 velocity to get the hit articulation to play. This gets tedious when having to do this with every new kit.

Since I’m on the topic of vdrums and SD3. I also don’t seem to be able to get all of the articulations on the ride to play when using the roland digital ride? Just seems to play edge, bow, bell and that’s it. The roland ride has many more zones and the latest libraries seem to have more articulations? Is there a different preset that works better with a roland TD50 digital setup?

 

Thanks in advance for any input!

 

Mani

[Mani10]

Hello,

This seems like the best place to put this question- I have a Roland TD50 and I’m running SD3 via my desktop CPU. My setup is- USB midi from TD50 runs to USB 3.0 port on desktop. Using ASIO4ALL drivers. Using lowest amount of samples / lowest buffer settings. Here are my results as they appear in SD3 under settings/midi in/edrums:

 

Device Type: ASIO, ASIO device: ASIO4ALL2 ASIO control: ASIO = Output latency- 1.8ms, Buffer latency- 1.5ms samples 44100

Device Type: ASIO, ASIO device: TD50  ASIO control: ASIO = Output latency- 5.1ms, Buffer latency- 1.1ms samples 44100

Difference here being the device type used- TD50 vs ASIO4ALL

 

My subjective feeling is using device type TD50 gives slightly better response? Does this mean the only thing that matters here is the buffer latency? The dynamics and feeling are still off when compared to playing with just the TD50 samples. Playing just the TD50 FEELS almost like you’re playing real drums, but then you have the roland sounds… Playing just SD3 samples sounds more like you’re playing real drums, but then the feeling is diminished / never quite there? My solution thus far has been to mix the two together, which for me has produced pretty good results with a roland / SD3 hybrid sound- mostly SD3.

My question here is- is there any way to make these latency results lower? Is it the latency that I’m picking up on while just using SD3 samples that makes my experience diminished? Or is SD3 still just limited in its capacity to work with vdrums at this point? What sort of adjustments might be made?

Thanks in advance for any input!

Mani

Operating system: Windows 10

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