[tonosity]

Okay, I’ve got it working, but it took a while.  When you go to External Instruments, after creating it, the new keyboard (HPD-20) doesn’t show up in that list–as an External Instrument would.  Evidently, External Keyboards–while they are selected from the options list when going to External Instruments to add a new instrument–is considered an External *Device*, and is only accessed when adding a new track.  Then you can set it up to output to SD3 in the track.  If you understand SO5’s layout, concepts and logic yourself, could you explain them? Roughly, if you can. I’m just trying to make sense of it, so I can solve these kind of problems in the future.  Thanks very much, Darryl

Operating system: Windows 10

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[tonosity]

Hello!  When I have the HPD-20 as the input for a track, by dragging the instrument from the list of install external instruments, yes, the hits on the HPD-20 do show up in the track’s recording.  No sound, however, since it’s not associated with a sound library.  Instead of dragging the HPD-20 to the grid and creating a new track for it, from the instructions for SO5, I’m to drag Superior Drummer from the external instrument list, and automatically create the track and channels.  But the HPD-20 doesn’t show up as an input for the track.  However, I have the HPD-20 sending MIDI on the same channel that Superior Drummer is configured to listen.  I’m using MIDI channel 1.

Here’s the screenshot you requested:

Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by tonosity.

[tonosity]

Hi, Olof.  Yes, I’ve tried adding it as an instrument, then read where it was instructed to have the H-D-20 added as a keyboard, and I did that.  They gave no specific reason for doing it, and I didn’t see any different facilities doing it that way, after doing it.  God, I’d love some specifics and details. As well as a description of how SO5 processes MIDI between instruments and sound libraries (or other plug-ins) in detail, so I have a clue as how to arrange and fix things myself.  But all I can find from Toontracks and Presonus are snippets of info.  I’d settle for a snippet if it worked.  Maybe it’d be a clue to how it all works…

Thanks very much, Darryl

Operating system: Windows 10

[tonosity]

Thanks for the reply!  No, it’s not that the libraries aren’t being found.  The Settings/Libraries/Paths shows no errors, and libraries are found where I installed them (C\:Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Toontrack\EZDrummer)  I can click, with the mouse, on drums on the SD3 graphical virtual drum set, and they sound great.  My problem is that I have the Roland HPD-20 connected correctly (the MIDI Monitor in SO5 populates as the HPD-20 is played, on Channel 1), and the SD3 is set up correctly, listening on “Any” channel.  Still SD3 receives no MIDI commands, and doesn’t sound.  So, how do I connect them?  I’ve attached a screenshot showing the track and its parameters, the MIDI Monitor receiving commands from the HPD-20.  And the SD3 interface open.

Operating system: Windows 10

[tonosity]

I have SD3, and using the Program Manager application to install.  The SD3 download installs without a problem.  The separate installable, Basic Sound Library, Core MIDI pack, goes through the process of installing, and the installer reports that the installation was successful.  However, the status of the Core MIDI portion of the pack still has the “Install” button enabled, as if it were not installed, after all.

Is this a problem that is known?

Thanks very much, Darryl

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