Session Drummer 3 Feature Enhancements

Hello.

I thought I'd share a feature request I just submitted to Cakewalk.

I'd be interested in having some feedback on this one.

Some background as some of you may say that you could use this or that plug-in/VST but as a synth hardware aficionado, I don't like having lots of plug-ins/VSTs etc, or having to keep paying out for lots of them, especially when Sonar includes so many great plug-ins as I prefer to master those and only when I find that something can't be done, I'll go on the hunt for one that will!

Therefore for drum sample reply, I really like Session Drummer 3 as it's easy to use and very quick to achieve what I want.

However, it's occurred to me that it could do with a couple of features adding to it to make it really good so I submitted the following:

A Decay Control - obviously for adjusting the tail of a sample so that I don't have to keep loading up different samples or kits because of the varying tail/decay that I like on certain sounds between projects.

Multiple Sample Pad Function Menu Driven - so that I can assign multiple samples per pad and don't have to waste time messing around with editing SFZ files.  This could be achieved is by assigning 4 groups of sounds per pad and allowing the group to be changed by either a button or menu clicking.

This is exactly how the Roland digital series of TR drum machines worked.  You'd have 16-pads with 4-banks/groups A to D which you could choose which 16 sounds you wanted assigned to the pads, totalling 64 sounds.  Obviously, all 64 were available as a complete kit so that they could be assigned a note number but it's the ease of set-up that made the difference.

Perhaps I'm using the wrong VST but anyone else think these would be useful enhancements?

Cheers!

I agree is session drummer is really good but its about 2 steps away from competing with ez drummer and some other great virtual drum vst-I's.

I love the idea about decay control. I have also feature requested this as well.
one would think it would'nt be to tough to through a mix control in there but the way sfv's work, its not that easy.

like I said, session drummer is close to being a big money maker and a highlight to buy sonar.
use it all the time.
because I can throw real drum samples inside of it, it doubles as a sampler.

im guessing it would be the same as droping reverb on a bus and routing a send from each session drummer channel, same thing.
but it would be convenient the way you mentioned before