[ddots-l] Re: superior drummer news
- From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:55:34 +0100
Damon wrote: snip, IN the meantime, if anybody is a hot spot clicker guru, we
certainly could use your help to get this going.
Phil replied: I would get on to Tunetrack about the accessibility issues that
2.1 is causing you. also, if you can talk them into providing me with a fully
licence copy of the software then, I will be more than happy to help out with
.HSC development, smile.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Damon Fibraio
To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 3:47 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] superior drummer news
OK, everybody. From the front lines, I have been working with Toontrack's
Superior Drummer to see what we could do with it. 2.0 was quite nice. We were
talking about doing up some hot spots to allow swapping out kit pieces along
with a nice sonar template and mixer template for superior drummer that would
assign drums and room mics to separate tracks in sonar for individual
processing. I found that you could right click on the word tools to switch bass
drum beaters turn off the snares or switch from sticks to brushes to rods. You
could click on the word presets next to new York avatar to change kits as well.
My main issue was how to install easy drummer expansions which the superior
could import. I was told by Toontrack support you could install easy play pro,
which came on the superior dvd, and then install any ez drummer expansions. I
had purchased the drumkit from hell expansion and this did work nicely. You
right click on the word new York avatar and it brings up a menu with your
expansions in it.
Now for the bad news.
IN order to use the new York studios volume 2 expansion that I just bought
but have yet to receive, I had to update to superior drummer 2.1. This has
changed things and not for the better.
Firstly, and I think this would happen in 2.0 as well, when switching from
n.y. avatar to drumkit from hell, it blew away the mixer template that assigned
the drums to individual tracks in sonar, so the entire drumkit from hell is on
track one exclusively. Not cool at all.
Secondly, upgrading to superior drummer 2.1 ahs alter the way presets are
arranged. Now, there is no word presets in the main window. There is a
load/save which brings up a modified menu of different things. No matter what
you choose as a preset, a second window comes up with check boxes that jaws
cannot see, probably to load different aspects of the preset and an ok and
cancel buttons that jaws also cannot see. We should be able to use hsc to spot
this window up, however, I am not familiar enough with the system to know if
this will be as usable. So, Kevin Reeves and I have some considerable work to
do here before this can be made fun for everybody. I am concerned that the
money I spent has just been nulled by toontrack's mangling of an interface that
could have been made to work. At least it isn't all bitmapped yet, thank God.
So, we'll work on this and hopefully get some news to you all. IN the meantime,
if anybody is a hot spot clicker guru, we certainly could use your help to get
this going. My plan is to make superior drummer 2.1 accessible since it is the
current version and you will need it to use any sdx expansions going forward,
so before anybody says go back to 2.0, that is really not an option. We are
still hoping to make this work for all users to get excellent drum instruments
into our hands.
Note: I have tried both bfd and bfd2.0 with very little luck. I may return to
it at one point especially if hot spot clicker does prove to be useful in
superior drummer's use, but bfd really drove me nuts, and 2.0 especially made
things tricky just to load a kit, so I gave up on it. Again, I may return to it
one day just to see if it is a doable option to get working, but Superior
drummer seemed much easier to work with and so we'll see how much we can get
from it.
--
Damon Fibraio
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personal music site: http://www.keyboardguy.com.
Band web site: http://www.thdband.com, myspace
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