yes, had 8 mics going, kick, snare, toms and 2 overheads.  Thanks all for the advise. I am going to try the audio snap first. I like the idea of keeping it all in sonar, session drummer. May use bfd, but session drummer has some pretty good sounds. hate to buy more drum software. to be honest, i bought bfd becuase i did not know of session drummer. Session drummer is very cool and very easy to use!! so I will try that route first. will let post my expereice.  thanks again, this forum ROCKS!!!!!

BFD has better raw samples. You should try both SD3 and BFD. Especially if you only have the kits that came with X1 for SD3. If you have both you have some massive choices and power behind you. Also there is nothing stopping you from blending kit pieces on their own tracks. Just clone the first track and toss a different piece onto the new track and blend the two. You can get some crazy stuff happening that way. Cheers.

Heck... you could blend them with the original tracks if you wanted.

ok.... i have searched to find audio snap. Have searched the user manual for "audio snap" and didn't find it.  Searched all of the tool bars, didn't find it. searched the help in sonar, found an article that talks about it but doesn't tell me where to find it. can ya help a brother out here?

Here are a couple of videos that might help http://www.cakewalk.com/C..V/SONARU.aspx/Go-Deeper

anyone know where i can find the midi notes for session drummer? what drum = what note. example: bass drum = B3 etc?

Here's the webinar on drum production where Seth and Brandon do exactly what you are talking about and more... http://www.youtube.com/wa...1MD80kk&feature=relmfu I really want to try some of that stuff out myself. Cheers.

If you open the Piano Roll View you should see the notes for the kit pieces. Also if you press F1 (I think it is F1) with SD3 in focus it should open the SD3 help manual and there is a a default map in there somewhere. The SD3 GUI should tell you the kit piece midi notes too. Sorry but I forget how exactly I did all that crud before but those are some places to poke at and see what works for you. Cheers.

What beepster said, he's a fast typist. Also in the PRV right-click on the keyboard, in the note names dialog click the "Use These Note Names Instead" radio button and select the "General MIDI Drums" from the dropdown. Then the keys will show the drumkit names instead of piano keys.

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anyone know where i can find the midi notes for session drummer? what drum = what note. example: bass drum = B3 etc?

Most SD3 kits are pretty much General MIDI (uses the same notes as GM) so you can likely use a GM Drum Map unless it's a specialized kit or one you purchased.
 
If you right-click on any drum piece in SD it will tell you what the MIDI notes are.