Help soloing individual instruments in AD

I have AD's drums all being output to seperate tracks and I'm having this issues soloing just a kick, or just a snare because the kick or snare sample is comprised of the Overhead and Room tracks as well. If I try and solo just a snare - it's practically silent because it's missing those tracks. If I include those tracks - I get all the other drums too. Is there any way around this? Thanks

No not using a drum map. I don't think. Quite new to producing so I haven't had a chance to learn all the terminology.
 
What I mean is the snare sound I have isn't just located on one track i.e snare, it's comprised of the recording in the room and overhead tracks too. When you output your tracks separately in Addictive drums these tracks get created. If I solo just my snare track I can hardly hear the thing. Most of it comes from the Overhead and rooms mics. Not sure if this is normal or not. Same with the kick. It sounds a lot quieter without the overhead and rooms. I might be missing something really simple.

I usually turn off the room and overhead mics if I want to hear the pure drum sound. So many drum options I get them confused at times.

You can do it within AD's interface, Click on your snare and click the,"Edit" button along the top.
There you can solo the snare and it will include both direct and ambient mics.
 
Steve
 
 

It's complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, it gets easier.
 
I usually use a cal file to "split notes to tracks" so all the different kit pieces are on their own track. I only do this because I find it easier to control the over all volume of certain things though it is not necessary.
 
First solo either the overheads or the room outputs. You will have to adjust the volumes in the AD interface by selecting each kit piece and using the two knobs on either side of the kit piece. It takes a while to do this but once done, the volumes of each piece will fit for the overhead as well as the room mics. You can then add compression to those tracks and EQ.
 
Then all you have to do is the output tracks for each kit piece. Adjusting the EQ and adding compression.
 
I usually add compression to the overheads, room and snare. Using a short release for the overheads,  snare and a long release for the room mics. I add reverb to the room mics and snare. Less for the snare and it varies for the room.
 
Good luck.

I don't know what kit is being used but I find most individual instruments in a drum synth are always recorded pretty hot. There is an upper limit to how loud a track will go, it may be something needs to be turned down. Can't make each track louder than the next.

I usually do put a compressor on the drum bus. It's usually an LA-2A model and I use very little compression. -.5bdb of gain reduction. For the snare and overheads, maybe -2 or 3 db of gain reduction and -1db on the room.
 
I did not mention though. for the individual kit pieces, I mix them with Sonar's mixer and not AD's interface.
 
For the cymbals, I usually like to control them differently volume wise. I mix them in while mixing the overheads and room mics but they may need boost or cut in the overall mix. That's one reason I separate all my midi kit pieces. I can adjust their volume with their midi channels input gain. The volume sliders don't work in AD, which I never understood, but it's not a big deal since the input gain can be controlled.