changing sounds in sd3

hi,
how do you change the open hihat without it changing the closed hihat?

thanks.

You can drag in ANY sound you want to any drum or pad with the mixer window open. Just drop the sound on the picture of the drum cymbol etc. Opens up huge possibilities.

thanks humblenoise. that sounds interesting, but i am only familiar with accessing the various other drum/cymbal files from the drumkit window by right clicking on either the "program" or the "drum" field. how do i access those drum/cymbal folders from the mixer window?

also, in the step sequencer view, there are other instruments such as hand clap and side stick that are not on the kit it's self, i think that the snare is triggered when i click on it. how would i go about putting something else in their place?

thanks.

You can find or create ANY hat sound you like from anywhere. Create a wav file. Save it to the browser.

Literally drag it (or absolutely any wav file) from the browser and drop it on one of the 'pads'. Find the MIDI key that fires that pad fire it from there.

You would have to use the new pad key to fire the new hat sound but it may work depending on how you're set up to play the MIDI notes.

Sorry I keep editing this post. I don't know of a way to change just the open hat in a SD hat sound file but the above method will work to get an open hat in another location and if you're using the PRV or the Step Sequencer it's super easy to map your MIDI notes to that MIDI location on your keyboard..

Awesome tip coda!

edit: this post was in reply to post #7. (you guys are fast).

i don't want my head to explode.
this is where i can either get over loaded with the methodology,
or just settle down and accept it and do it.

the sonar master class drums videos did not demonstrate your suggestion, so i am not familiar with it. could you please explain the browser drag and drop procedure a little bit more?

thanks.

wow, thanks for the video explanation. very nice of you.
i kind of knew what you were referring to as far as physically dragging and dropping the file, what i didn't know was how to find the file in the first place. from the kit view, it was basically just a right click away, but in the mixer view, having to go into the browser, i didn't know where to start looking for the hi hat variations for a particular kit.
however, comedia provided the pathway to them (Program Files > Cakewalk > VSTPlugins > Session Drummer 3 > Contents > Kits > Hats) and i was just able to access them from the browser. i was planning on just dropping the new open hat into an unused tom location, but then there will be open/closed hat - mute/unmute issue since the midi note assignment for a tom will be inappropriate for a hihat.

edit:
i guess it's really just easiest, all things considered, to find another kit or another hat that works instead of catering to the closed hihat of the british rock kit. this is another lesson i learned here. if one things not working, there's plenty of other fish in the sea. i'm not married to the hi hat. i should be able to find another one. that one dilemma flat lined me and killed my vibe to create and i lost hours over a stinking open hihat. with something as complex as a daw, it's wise to pick an choose my battles. i can go around some obstacles, i don't have to go through every one of them. the trick is to be wise enough to know which one's are which. thank you agian for helping me with this. i learned a thing or two here.
 

the crash and ride cymbals aren't showing up on the step sequencer.

 
This happens because, by default, there aren't enough rows in the step sequencer to show all the drums. Select the top row (click on the vertical lines to the left  of the row name) then hit the "+" button above anf to the left. This will add another row above the current top one, repeat as necessary until all the drums (or the ones you require, at least) are showing.
 
Why Sonar doesn't display the full map in the SS by default is one of life's small mysteries.
 

can i replace unused instruments like the side stick and hand clap with the two cymbals?

 
The method given above in this thread will work for that. It's not exactly straightforward though. It's worth right-clicking on the drum pictures in the SD mixer view first though, and selecting each of the instruments shown in turn just to check what's been loaded to each MIDI note number by default. You may well find that what you want is already there, just on a different note number.