Session Drummer 3 Panning Limitation

I'm trying to create drum tracks using SD3 and I've run into what appears to be an incredibly serious limitation.  I can't find any way to get the six toms (two for each channel in the SD mixer) to correctly pan across the stereo field.  For example, the hi tom on channel 4 actually triggers 2 toms - note 48 and note 50, but there's only one pan control and one output for both notes, so both toms are in the exact same place in the stereo field.  All toms are using the same stereo output #4, but I'd be happy to output each of the 6 toms to separate outputs if that would help or were possible... anything.  Please tell me I'm missing something obvious, but I have the  feeling I'm not.
 
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Each pad has one panner. It would be necessary to add another instance of Session Drummer to pan the individual notes of the toms separately.

Yeah, I was afraid of that - an incredible misstep on Cakewalk's part as far as I'm concerned.  I've always upgraded to their Producer version, but I may stop doing that.  This isn't the first time I've found their bundled software to be basically a "lite" version of the real thing, so what's the point? I ask myself.
 
I'd already considered a second instance of Session Drummer, but it's cumbersome to have to split up my full midi drum track into two separate tracks so I'm not crazy about that solution.
 
I've been considering Steven Slate 4 (assuming it's a full featured mixer) because I do primarily rock stuff and out of the box their rock kits are some of the best I've heard.  Any experience there?
 
Thanks for the help.

Ahh, well I did look into drum maps, but didn't quite see how theywould work for me.  I'll have another go at it tonight.  So, basically I would create a map with say drum 48 mapped to one synth and drum 50 to another?  Fair enough, but then am I dealing with two separate audio outputs, one for each synth?  For example, I'd have to freeze them separately etc?  Even if that's the case, it's better than what I've got now.

Another solution may found in sfz editing. While the Session Drummer menus show GM instrument names, what sounds the notes actually trigger are controlled by sfz files. If a 12piece kit is adequate with a little sfz editing any pad can be assigned to play any audio file (or a collection of files).

You know, I tried loading the hi toms sfz file into one of the 4 pads and got no sound.  When I looked in the help, it mentioned that the sounds have to match the category or you won't hear anything, which sounded like what I experienced.  Apparently, you have to load toms into one of the "toms channels" and not a "pad channel", which of course makes no sense at all to me - what does Session Drummer care what instruments I load into a channel?

Excellent!  I have tweaked a couple of sfz files to customize kits with my own samples, but I didn't know I could trick the pad into loading other drums.  So, now a have a couple of options to try.  I'll post again when I've tried them and see what works best.

brundlefly, thanks for the input (no pun intended).  I do get the channel numbering/output scheme, but scook understood the nature of the problem and offered a couple of suggestions.  The crux of the problem is that there is no way to get the two toms (e.g. notes #48 and #50 hardwired to Session Drummer input channel 4) routed to two separate outputs.  No matter which of the 24 outputs (or two if using stereo) you chose to route input channel 4 to, both toms will always be routed through that single pan control - there's no way around it.
 
I think the design limitation in Session Drummer is that there are only 12 inputs and each of those is further restricted to only certain midi notes (e.g. #48 and #50 for input channel 4).
 
I was able to load modifed sfz files into the pad channels 9 through 12, which worked okay, but I quickly discovered that I was going to run out of channels for big rock kits with 6 or more toms and 3 or 4 or more cymbals.  It also would require copying and editing every sfz file for every different kit I wanted to use etc.  Ugh.  That quickly led me to drum maps which turned out to be a much more viable solution once i figured those out.
 
So that's where I am now, although I've run into a few glitches with inserting from the track template I created for this setup.  The audio drum tracks that are routed directly to my output buses (17-20 for K, Sn, Hat) get reassigned to 1/2, while the rest of the drum tracks that are assigned to stereo buses (Toms and OH) get assigned correctly, but the two stereo buses themselves get reassigned to 1/2.  I also have to recall my drum map separately for each project and assign that to me midi drum track.  So there's some manual labor involved.  It all works fine when using a new project template, but inserting from a track template into an existing project is not so reliable.
 
X3 may not have these issues, but I'm still on X1 because I'm using a Motu 2408 w/ a 324 card in an XP box, which doesn't have 64 bit drivers.  My system's quite stable so until I upgrade my card, I guess I get what I've got.

bobmc
The crux of the problem is that there is no way to get the two toms (e.g. notes #48 and #50 hardwired to Session Drummer input channel 4) routed to two separate outputs.

I guess it depends on what kit you have loaded (or if you're building your own SFZs), but as tomixornot pointed out in the first response, at least some if not most or all of the bundled kits have the same sample mapped to both note numbers for each Tom so there's really no need to pan them differently.
 
In any case, I have to say that I don't feel Session Drummer is worth getting too carried away with. It's pretty quickly outclassed by many relatively inexpensive drum synths in terms of features like mic positioning, top/bottom and in/out micing, room and overhead signals, built-in processing, bleed/resonance controls and overall sample quality, variety of articulations and number of velocity layers provided in the bundled kits. If you're really that into tweaking drums, I think your time might be better spent with some of the more state-of-the-art 3rd-party offerings.