[RobJames]

John, thank you for your clear and concise answer. I will download the .pdf and read it carefully, I’ll also download the latest update 2.3.1 in case that holds anything that may help me. I may not have been as precise as I would have liked to have been, in describing exactly what I’m trying to do. Not only do I want to trigger Superior from a TD-20 I want to create a drum map that is GM Midi compatible. So that any midi recordings I do, are captured in GM format, so that they can be played on any hardware or software GM compatible drum machines. Up until now I’ve been trying to modify/create drum maps by altering their input and output notes. But now I’m going to see how things work if I modify the TD-20 midi output notes, so that they meet GM convention. It might prove to be a lot easier to modify existing drum maps that way. Time will tell. I did find a nice Superior Drummer drum map created by a columnist at Sound on Sound, that I’m in the midst of testing. This is the kind of resolve I’m looking for, albeit I’ll have to modify it greatly to make it GM. I would upload it here, but there seems to be no way to upload files to this forum. I will report back though, if I come up with a final solution, if only to make things easy for those going down the same path. Thanks for your help.

As a side note, both the Roland TD-20 and Superior are GM compatible as far as the Kick, Snare, Toms and Ride go…………why they veered off the path with the Hi-Hats and Cymbals I’ll never understand. But it’s still no where near as bad as the mapping scheme chosen by Addictive Drums. Which is so bad, I had to return that Product for a refund.

[RobJames]

Seems like a very odd problem to be having. Are you not using a Mixer “Live”? Where you can set your outputs of Superior to a perfect level, and do the same with your mp3 player? Even if you are playing Superior through your DAW and a mp3 is on one of your audio tracks, you simply pull down the stereo faders of your mp3 track. Try this, set up your system so your Superior Drums sound Wicked in whatever room size you’re playing in. Now connect your mp3 player, and turn the level way down on it. Now slowly bring it up, until it fills the entire room with the perfect volume………..same as your drums now sound! Or am I missing something completely, here? I use powered Mackie HR824’s in my Studio to monitor and mix Superior sounds, and I can’t even get it up to a 1/4 of the volume scale, before it’s blistering LOUD!!

[RobJames]

Ok, I’m back from testing. There is no marked improvement from what I have been able to achieve with my own tweaking. First of all, this is not actually a drum map (which is partly what I’m looking for) but an internal software mapping solution in Superior. The outstanding issues remain the same, there is no way to get a tight closed Hi-Hat for one. Secondly the Hi-Hat maps to D0, where it should be F#1 for a closed Hi-Hat, G#1 for a pedal Hi-Hat and A#1 for an open Hi-Hat. Crash 1 maps to G2 where it should be C#2. But Crash 2 does now map correctly to A2, so that is an improvement. But really it’s all about Hi-Hat articulation for me. I mean playing just my TD-20 by itself offers me incredible articulation, but that doesn’t transfer through to triggering Superior. Is there no way to find out how Nir Z overcame this issue?

[RobJames]

Thanks Scott for the quick reply. Off to try that right now!

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