Addictive Drums - Multiple Output question

Each kit piece has separate Overhead and Room level adjustments in the upper left of AD2 edit view.
 

Also you may have the Main L&R, Overhead L&R, Room L&R, coming from AD mapped into the console view.  It was a little tricky at first but if you look in AD at the bottom of the Kit window there is a button for each output that you can assign the "track" on to the console view or not.  Play with this a little and I think will figure it out.
 
hope this helps
Rafone

Hello Everyone,
 
I too am having a problem with AD 2.  I am unable to route Cymbals to Sonar X3 channel inputs.   I have enabled all of the outputs in AD2 for SonarX3 to see as inputs, but I don't see any for Cymbals.
 
I have a old M-Audio Trigger Finger that I took out of storage again and decided to use with AD2.  AD2 is very simple to assign kit pieces to the Trigger Finger's 16 Pads by clicking the ?, selecting Map Window, and pressing the names of the kit pieces and their learn button.
 
I then went back to the Kit page and enabled the down arrow at the bottom if each track to allow the channel to send the kit piece audio to Sonar. 
 
In Sonar I have the following input selection for Addictive Drums
 
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Kick = Left (Mono)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Snare = Left (Mono)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 2 H-Hat = Left Mono)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Tom 1 = Left (Mono)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Tom 2 = Left (Mono)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Tom 3 = Left (Mono)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Tom 4 = Left (Mono)


 
I see inputs for Master, Flexi, Overhead, Room and Buss, However, I don't see Cymbals. Are they only available when using the Bus, Room and OH channels in the Mixer....  How do we rout the Cymbals into Sonar X3?  
 
I just routed those channels and I got the Cymbals to come out of Sonar.  ( That idea was stupid on Addictive Drums part).  So in addition to what I have up top in Sonar, I have the settings below as well.
 
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Over Head = (Stereo)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Room  = (Stereo)
Input = Addictive Drums 2 1 Bus = = (Stereo)


If this configuration looks incorrect to your or you have a better way of getting the Cymbals to come through Sonar, please let me know.
 
Peace,
 
Jesse g
 
 
 

joyof60
Yup, I'd love to figure that one out! Separate tracks without having to jump back to the AD GUI would be great!

 
 
joyof60,
 
Open AD 2 as a synth and when the Soft Synth options page appears, click All Synth Audio Output as one of the options so the AD2 Channels will appear in Sonar. 
 
In Addictive Drums click on the Kit Window  after you have selected your drum kit or preset.  At the bottom of the mixer are downward grey arrows for each channel on the mixer.  click on the arrow and they will become orange.
 
Now in Sonar, go to each of the AD tracks listed, except for the sole Midi track,  and select the channel input and you will see Addictive Drums listed as an input option.  Select it and you will see all of the kit pieces you can set as input for Sonar.  Only choose MONO for each kit piece and alternate Left and Right IE, (left Snare, Right Tom1, Left Tom2 and so on...)
 
Play your kit back through AD2 and you should see your meters indicating the channel your sound is coming through.
 
Peace,
 
Jesse G

Through pure laziness on my part, I never figured out what the "bus" output is for. When I use individual outs, I do it the way I also do a real drumkit.
Kick, snare top and bottom, however many toms there are, hats, overhead L/R and room L/R.

Right, I usually compress the room mix or I create a submix manually. Makes no sense to me to do it in AD if you're creating the balance of instruments in Sonar.

I'm with Kamikaze here for the most part.
 
I really like the FX within AD2. The EQ, though, I like to do in SONAR.
The compression in AD2 is nice and fast, so while it's a bit of a one-trick pony, it does the one trick well and is good for rounding out the "performance." The distortion and tape FX are fairly versatile and give some sounds that I think might not be as available in SONAR itself. The pitch/volume envelopes are SO powerful and useful and the tone designer is nice and versatile. Overall, I like having the power to use all the internal mixing capabilities of AD2.
 
I'd say overall, what I find myself doing is defining the "effect" of the drum's sound with the FX in AD2, and then make it fit the track with the FX in SONAR.

When you open the AD2 GUI click on the ? in the upper right, then "Map Window." On the upper left of that next screen you can choose a "Map Preset" and choose GM (General MIDI) when driving AD2 with a GM-based kit (like Session Drummer 3 loops). (You can also make/save your own drum maps - internal to AD2 - there if desired).