Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer

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August 13, 11 7:51 PM (permalink)

Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer

When I originally load a program, there is a sidestick on C#, a snare on D, and a different snare on E.  If I right-click on the snare in the picture of the drum kit and choose to load a different snare, whatever snare sound I pick will be on all three keys: no second snare sound and more importantly, no sidestick.  How is this supposed to work?

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    sharpdion23
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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 13, 11 7:55 PM (permalink)
    IIRC some snares don't have sidestick.

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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 13, 11 7:57 PM (permalink)
    Unfortunately, you can only load one instrument per pad (see the pads on the Mixer screen of SD3). The reason you get more sounds available when you load a program is because that setup was done by programming the SFZ file. You can do this yourself as well, you just need to read up on how to create/edit SFZ files. See this page on the Cakewalk site:
    http://www.cakewalk.com/D...e/article.aspx?aid=108

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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 13, 11 8:01 PM (permalink)
    What I do is create my own custom drum kit by editing the sfz files. Takes some time but I think it's worth it.

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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 13, 11 8:16 PM (permalink)
    Thanks for replying.  I think the SD3 interface is seriously lacking:  there should be pads for the sounds so there is some way to load them.  Similarly, there are only 3 tom pads but most kits have 5 toms defined.

    The sidestick thing is particularly annoying.  Sidestick is not a special case: it is a basic sound in a kit.
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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 13, 11 8:48 PM (permalink)
    There are other drum soft synths. EZ Drummer, Addective Drums and superior Drummer 2 to name a few

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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 14, 11 0:09 PM (permalink)
    Thanks.  The demo of Superior Drummer is impressive.
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    Re:Laoding a Single Drum into Session Drummer August 14, 11 0:14 PM (permalink)
    Check this out:  I had one of the first Linn Drum Computers (serial number under 100--and they gave/sold quite a few to celebrities before they went on sale to the public).  I was on the waiting list months ahead of time and paid $5,000 for it.  That is about $13,500 in today's money.  Now we add Virtual Drum programs for under $200.  Insane.

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