Superior Drummer showing up as notes not diamonds in PRV all of a sudden...

er..bump?

Yeah,  check the midi track is feeding a drum map and not the drum synth direct.

I've just started experiencing this as well.

@Colin & Karyn the drum map out will show the triangles (??) in the drum map but a drum synth selected directly should show diamonds in the PRV, they now show 'regular' PRV notes.

I'm not sure when it changed as I don't very often go direct to synth but it has at some point. It's only affecting Session drummer though, hardware drum synths display as expected.

I've just checked this in X1 and Session Drummer displays as notes there too. I perhaps wouldn't notice as 95% of my drum work is with maps and the 5% that isn't is usually solely hardware.

Perhaps it's always been that way with softsynth drums? It doesn't appear new to X2 here anyway.

Not that helps you much though....

I still see the PRV fully zoomed out occasionally but don't have any snap issues although I have seen others mention them.

But I thought diamonds were forever??

But even tho they seem to be (one special) girls best friend I'm gonna map me some too!! :-)

I'm startin to remember that Karyn is probably right.  My old Normal template had EZDrummer (track folder) already loaded and mapped and I recently switched to Superior instead.  Which would lead one to see why I now have notes instead of diamonds.  However, I've done two previous projects with the new Superior drummer template which DID show diamonds before this latest project that's reverted back to notes.  Personnally I think it's Colonel Mustard in the Library with the candlestick.

FastBikerBoy


I beg to differ Karyn but the diamonds displayed in the PRV 'regular' view note pane (not drum map 'stood up' triangles) are definitely present for hardware drum synths.

For a hardware drum synth, the midi data is simply being output through a hardware midi port rather than an internal virtual midi port.  Sonah doesn't know or care what is attached or where the midi data is going, it just sends it.


This is where the drum map comes in.  Not only does it define the instrument/note names and the midi note that is output for any played midi note in the track, but each instrument/note can also go to a defined midi output. So you could have the whole drum kit being played by SessionDrummer except the snare, played by BFD, and the kick played by an external hardware drum machine.

The instrument definitions are simply preloaded maps with all the correct settings for the particular instrument you selected.