Hopefully you can get it to work, I quite like the samples.I liked the free kits so much I bought the full thing during the black Friday sale.Every so often I play the free kits and wonder why I bought the full thing: the free version sounds great.
Ssd5 Load Samples
Engage the Audition button in the top right corner to audition samples before loading them. To load a sample, simply drag and drop it onto the interactive drum kit, or place it in the additional sample sections on the left or right. You can save your kit or clear it and start from scratch using the Save and Clear buttons on the left side. You can also toggle the snare mode from classic to rimshot, which adds a rimshot when the snare is triggered with maximum velocity.
For an expanded view of your entire mix, select the Mixer tab, which opens up a traditional console-style mixer in the bottom half of the window. Each channel is color-coded, with close mics in blue, one-shot samples in bronze, ambient mics in violet, and aux channels in pink.
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The Create tab has two sub-tabs along the top, Instruments and Kits. The Instruments sub-tab lets you build out your custom kit from the SSD 5.5 library, which includes hundreds of kicks and snares and dozens of toms and cymbals, each with multiple articulations available. The Kits sub-tab gives you one-click access to nearly 150 presets which load an entire kit at once, with multiple presets per kit for quickly finding the right tones. Clicking on a kit displays a load percentage on each drum and cymbal so you can see when the kit is fully loaded into memory. A memory counter shows how much space the currently loaded samples are taking up.
On the bar on the right are Instruments and Samples tabs. The Instruments tab shows the drum view, while clicking the Samples tab brings up a grid where you can load in the one-shots included with Steven Slate Drums 5.5, or any other WAV file in your personal library. Clicking the Edit or Mix windows after selecting a sample provides the same controls available for the other drums. Finally, clicking Rimshot changes all 127 MIDI velocities of the snare into a rim hit instead of a full hit, while Classic reverts you back to the original MIDI input.
But again, even if a kit differs from what I built, for the custom drum map, you could use my drum map as a starting point, and figure out what is the same, and what is different, and then you could simply adjust the delta (whatever is different), to map to the other kit, and that should save a load of time. So, I would suggest starting a new project, using the Project Template I will post, as that has what you would need, to start with, then change the drum kit in the SSD5 instance in the Synth Rack, to whatever kit you want to map, then I would suggest opening the Drum Map Manager, and enter a new drum map name in the text box, and click the Save icon just to the right of that text box, so that you save it under the new name (that way, you won't risk overlaying the map I built for Cutya), and then start comparing the mapping of those notes against the mapping of the kit you want to change the map to match.
There are bunches of nuanced drum note mappings in SSD5 Cutya kit, though they do differ a bit, from what I had posted earlier. The SSD5 drum kits use a different method for avoiding that famous machine-gun sound that older drum sample libraries had. Rather than using a different set of samples, for a Snare Left and a Snare Right, like is done in the Kontakt Studio Drummer, the SSD5 drum kits use an approach they call 'stacked', or 'stacking', which they claim does a better job of representing the sound of repeated snare hits, or toms.
I also uploaded a text document with the note mappings - might be easier to read then the shortened visibility in the text boxes of either the Drum Map Manager, or viewing the drum map note names in the Step Sequencer. Place this text document anywhere you want, on your hard drive.
I am going to create a new thread, to post the link to the Dropbox folder I uploaded, with the components I created for the SSD5 Cutya kit, in case anybody else wants to download them. Hopefully, I won't catch too much flack for my track color choices, or my gain staging. Perhaps the not having to build it all themselves will temper the comments hee hee
Hmmm... that spurs a thought on a workaround that could be easier: you can add one-shot samples in SSD, and I believe it creates a channel for that sample. If you did that with cymbal samples, maybe that would give you dedicated cymbal channels to work with.
Thanks for that Monkey_Man. Things are changing already, I've spend many hours on testing the process of cutting samples from Groove Agent (already in my DAW), as a way of trying the process. Although VST drums with all features will be great when it comes to recording, my immediate need is to get some good drum samples that I can process and load into my TD 50. Taking it all on the road is no longer an option due to cost, technical complexity (on stage) and I can already see loading these kits up will not be quick enough.
So, you are recommending SSD5 with such conviction, I must consider it, but why do you rate it so highly? In my situation, good quality samples is a must, I only considered EZD because it is generally highly rated. Can you tell me if SSD5 is capable of producing a range of kits (say from big and deep to light and tight)? Your opinion will be much appreciated, thanks.
This being said, it's not THAT difficult to instantly switch drumkits if you have a decent laptop (SSD, RAM). It can be done by setting up e.g. 3 instrument tracks with Superior Drummer 3, each instance loaded with a different kit. All you need to do then is to SOLO the track (kit) you want to play next. This can even be remote controlled so you don't even have to touch the laptop.
The Nektarine Drum Player DP-1 makes it beautifully simple to play audio samples from ARUBA. Use drag and drop in Nektarine or load samples directly from ARUBA while you work. This automatically launches the DP-1 Drum Player with your audio sample loaded and assigned to the correct pad, ready for action.
Addictive Drums 2 is by far my favorite acoustic drum library on the list. The samples sound incredible, and XLN continues to add expansion packs. Be sure to check out my in-depth review of Addictive Drums 2 for more info. 2ff7e9595c
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