Session Drummer 3 What settings do you use?

Try the MoTown kit and PX64 Drum Strip - adjust to taste.

Place one instance on each drum track you want to effect. I think MoTown starts out pretty 'tight' but with the strip you can dial in/out as much tightness as you want with the transient shaper.

Also check out the Master Drum Classes. Awesome learning tool.

http://cakewalk.com/CakeT.SONARU.aspx/Master-Class

Yes Charlie, but it's SO much easier to create your patterns in Sonar's prv than relying on the SR16 interface.

I know, I've got one!

When I was using SD, I would create 1 bar manually, then drag it out for as many measures as I wanted, then edit each in turn so that they sounded slightly different to each other, same for fills etc.

Nowadays, I use BFD2 and rather than create every hit manually, I usually start off with one of their pre-rolled "Grooves", then edit to taste.

But - you can do the same thing in Sonar, just get it to loop around 1 bar/measure, set to record and add notes on the fly, I can't see how it's any different to using the SR16, plus of course, you can easily zoom in on misplaced hits and position them exactly where you want. S
ame for velocity. The SR16 only provides  I think, 10 velocity levels? In Sonar you get the full complement of 127.

And then of course there's mapping - the way I do it, every single kit piece comes up on its own track in Sonar, so I can compress & EQ my kick, snare, hat, toms etc totally differently to each other.

Or have you managed to incorporate this functionality into your workflow?

HTH!!
 
 

I am not at my computer to look - is MoTown one of the kits with SD3 or do we have to find and download it?

Forgive my ignorance --what is BFD?

yeah I thought of that after I asked...... I have since found a site describing it - have not got to the price yet

Charles if you think you'll use Session Drummer then take the time to view the videos in the Master Class. It shows a lot of tricks and tips. Most people agree that the 3rd party drums like Superior and BFD are are eh... superior, but I don't need them myself for my limited uses. I have EZ Drummer as well and I like Session Drummer a little better because of the additional kits that cost extra with EZ. I do use both Session Drummer and EZ however.

+1 Larry.  I have used Session Drummer for years and it works just fine when you tweak it on multiple channels.  If you can master that first, you may not need to go out and purchase other programs.  However, last year, I bought BFD Eco on sale for $39.  That was a steel and I do like the program.  

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