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[Lars Fossum]

Not at all – it works fine in AD2.

When moving foot controller between each of 6 levels, as I recall, you get stick tip sound every step.

This should not happend unless you have hit hihat inbetween.

So you get a ritsch-effect hitting controller all closed, and drop pedal up and down – ticketiticketticketticketi all the way.

Reply To: Hihat issue – new CC4 trigger a tick sound like from pedal – how to get rid of? version: 3.1.0
Operating system: Windows 7

[Lars Fossum]

..never mind, I bought Addictive Drums – they know how a hihat – the most expressive part of kit, should be handled. Not this toyish way SD do it.

It’s goodbye TT from me, yet another alienated long time user….

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[Lars Fossum]

I think the groove check function as practising is outstanding in Yamaha. All Roland lack that as far as I tested when I got mine(10 years ago). I find that really is encouraging to get statistics numbers on how in the pocket your playing is – according to various settings you can apply, which parts of kit is to be measured etc.

 

I have an older DTXPRESS IV and look for kit among current products that allow setting midi note individually for any pad. Other things to look for might be that it sends midi for cymbal chose as well, mine do on internal sounds but does not send midi when muting cymbal.

 

As I am using internal sounds for nothing but practising, used for drumming entirely for midi and SD, I have not looked on Yamaha sounds in that critical view. Many drummers prefer Roland, as I understand. Personally testing both at the time I did not favor any sound, since that is what you hear when testing in music store.

 

Just another view…

[Lars Fossum]

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From manual 15th march 2019 page 53

“MIDI Mapping Menu:  In the MIDI Mapping Property Box menu its possible to
change the way that notes are displayed, either as Note Numbers or as Key
Names. It should be mentioned that there are a few different conventions used
throughout the pro audio community for Note Key Names, meaning middle C may
not be located in the same octave in Superior Drummer 3 as it is in your DAW. In
this case it is best to use note numbers as these will always be the same across
all platforms.”

So there is a menu option there as your screenshot show.

Show note number or show keys.

 

But this is in 3.1.4 – update your install maybe.

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..continued….. it seems it should be played like legato is often handled, that attack is skipped – but this is not done, sample is played like the same articulation and a note was hit.

So new CC4 and no note in between – skip attack part of sample – should work better I think.

Thanks again for reading…

Reply To: Hihat issue – new CC4 trigger a tick sound like from pedal – how to get rid of? version: 3.1.4
Operating system: Windows 7

[Lars Fossum]

One site listing Orchestral SDX tells over 300 GB of unprocessed sounds – so it’s nothing I can fix.

No go for me if that is the case?

 

Where did the 65 GB estimate come from?

[Lars Fossum]

Excellent, thank you. 🙂

[Lars Fossum]

Anybody know estimated size yet to download for this?

I’ve saved up 120 GB datacap for this, will that be enough?

I did not download anything SD3 yet, to be able to hopefully get Orchestral as it is released.

[Lars Fossum]

In the past I’ve used epxression pedal on midi keyboard doing CC#11 and a midi modifier to make that CC#04 – in realtime.

So using a normal midi keyboard you can experiment a bit using one A#-key, test various octaves to see which one – and move expression pedal and see what happends.

To do a couple of bars of that in realtime and just copy is not that difficult – but you can learn what sounds right if you prefer to program.

In the days before doing even pads, before edrums as now, I recorded twohanded hihat separately – then in another take do just snare and kick and toms as well – using two hands. It’s easier than you think doing at least some patterns.

[Lars Fossum]

I think some system specs like Mac/PC, and computer specs and ram etc is good for anybody trying to help.

Is it installed on internal or external drive etc, if external if usb 2/3 port on computer. As standalone or plugin, in what daw etc.

[Lars Fossum]

From manual page 262 in my generated pdf

“Some E-Drum modules only allow for a maximum value of 90 which by default
would not trigger tightly closed Hi-Hats. The solution would be to use the Hi-Hat
Calibration Mode, or alternatively the “Close Even More” preset in the Hi-Hat
Presets menu. Finally you could also adjust the slider points manually by moving

the slider points for the Hi-Hat Pedal Control up so that the Tight articulation is at
90 (or the max value of your module CC04 data) and then move all subsequent
anchor points up in a evenly distributed manner.”

[Lars Fossum]

andrekeli wrote:

I even tried using the headphone plugged into the monitor port on the front of the Focusrite.

1. NO SOUND coming out of my monitor whatsoever! I tried turning all the dials in the Focusrite, nothing!

What else did I miss? The setup all seems logical to me. Yet, no sound at all!

Where did I go wrong (again)? ugh it’s so frustrating!

How do we get the sounds out from SD3 in Mac into the speakers?

Thanks,

AK

One Focusrite interface I used, also had a balance knob on front panel(called input/playback on yours) that balance direct input signal and what comes out from interface. So turn that clockwise to playback all the way to be sure. And also try the 1-2/3-4 source switch – not sure what it does and volume on headphones up as well as Monitor knob.

Do the headphone thing first, then continue with speaker stuff – more things to think about.

Not familiar with Mac, so not sure what else could matter.

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Mark King wrote:

The midi out of the dtx should be plugged into the Scarlett not usb.

What I could see the DTX 502 trigger module for this kit does only have usbtohost, this crap that Yamaha is leaning more on nowadays.

I would never purchase anything like that. You cannot have 5m or 10m usb cables, it just not reliable.

Proper din midi cables though, no problem.

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andrekeli wrote:

1. I connected the DTX522 to Scarlett 2i4 using the USB-MIDI cable. Had to find a USB-A/B adapter since DTX502 only uses USB type B port (no MIDI ports). Yet the LED on the USB-MIDI cable never lit up. I think the adapter is broken.

I see this as the main problem – the audio interface is not creating a midi device for you from usb anything.

Connect this usb from dtx to computer directly – and there would be midi ports to connect to sd3 to choose from – different than Focusrite interface ports.

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[Lars Fossum]

#1. If just certain sounds, it could be some preload thingy in ram feature or something – that sounds not used often enough is released and need to be reloaded.

Not having settings in memory(mine that is) your fenomena sounds related to something like this. All sampler usually have this kind of setting if to stream from disk, preload all in ram, optimized where is loads as needed kind of thing.

 

Another thing that might affect performance is that toms usually have more bleed over from overhead mikes, so turning that down a bit from default might help.

 

#2. As you described it does not sound like different interface solve anything. Then every sound would have worse latency than acceptable.

#3. Usually a settings panel for soundcard itself, but not familiar with mac if different than windows.

But settings often reached from inside an audio application too.

I’ve tried some Focusrite interfaces, and they had some basic setting low, medium and such as first level of choice, then various buffer settings.

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