Great tutorial! I've been using SD3 for a few years now but I learned a couple of new tricks here. SD3 is definitely the most powerful tool in my arsenal and it makes being a professional sounding one man band a very attainable thing.
It has it downfalls obviously: 1. Not as many shortcuts as in Logic's piano roll 2. Inversed zooming with the mouse wheel for some reason. 3. Impossible to move several midi regions (like drums and bass) at the same time in the arrangement window.
Pro tools, for many years was really just a digital computer replacement for a multitrack recorder with good audio editing. evolved from Sound Tools which was "just" an audio editor in it's day. So it's history was originally as a pure audio recording and editing tool. Parallel with this we had the E-magic Creator/Logic and Cubase (amongst many others!) which originated as MIDI sequencers. What has happened is that the two different strands have converged over the years, in that Logic (as it is now) Cubase, et al have added audio recording, and Pro Tools have added MIDI functionality. The upshot is that Pro Tools is still considered the "Professionals" audio recording tool, and the others are for Musicians who need midi. So the relative lack of functionality in Protools is really just a historical consequence of where in the music world they came from. Not saying either approach is better, BTW. Different strokes, etc. But as a long time Logic user, who has just bought SD3 i',m looking forward to getting to grips with what sounds like the best drum source i have heard to date. Not a drummer, myself, but have just bought en E-drum kit as i love messing about with a kit!
It's really cool that this is in Superior now. Can you edit grooves from the grid editor in the play style editor (and back again?) That would be SUPER handy. I wish ezdrummer made it less of a pain to write a custom groove, manipulate it in the play style editor, and then make additional adjustments in a piano roll.
Love the channel. I look forward to deep diving your songwriting vids. But right now I have a really stupid question. (You think people will laugh at using Pro-Tools... I have been recording my Roland kits for the last 6 years with nothing but my laptop, a small P.A. and Audacity!) Yeah. My guitarist and singer friends send me a track and I put the drums on. I've had good results But it's a long, time consuming, painstaking process. Anyway I finally broke down and got SD3 and Cakewalk. But I cannot find a tutorial to show me the bare basics of how to hook it to my TD-17, do I have to have DAW hardware or just software? Can I use a regular ext. hard drive or does it have to be SSD? I've never worked with MIDI or a real DAW even. I've played drums all my life and E-drums for 10 years so I feel embarrassed to even ask. But there's really no "Recording E-drums with SD3 For Dummies" book out there. I'll be psyched if you respond. If not I will still be checking out your channel. Keep up the good work.
I have the TD27KV, so I don’t know if it’s the same but I just connect it via the USB out to a USB port on my computer and then record arm the track. I don’t know how Cakewalk works but figure out how to route a USB MIDI device to the track that has SD3 on it and you should be good to go
I loaded a few kits that came with it... and the snare articulations are greyed out. Does that mean that kit/ snare does not included them? I could not get it to work.
curious why you didn't touch on the velocity randomization? That's a huge component - and I just started looking into this product 2hrs ago and saw it elsewhere.
Pro tools I can "draw" velocities for cymbal rolls and dynamic builds. Here I am forced to adjust each velocity by hand. Not being able to use "control - z" to undo is hard to get used to. Truthfully the only advantage i find here is that the piano roll is labeled. I've been programming drums by hand for years and disagree that this midi editor is superior.
Question.... I have a tribal beat up in grid editor and it shows the snare, kick drum and hi hat but does not show the toms. In every other MIDI grid editor I've used you can see every instrument being used. Am I missing something?
So cool, I think you answered my question. I was recently making templates and I was wondering if I really needed to open up a track for each drum in my DAW which is Reaper. After watching your video it seems I do not, which is cool because visually I hate having too many tracks if I do not need them. I mean if there is no advantage for having to open a track for each part of the drum kit, then I'd rather not do that. Agree? Thanks, Rob
I’m new. How do I get my track into Abelton? Simple question but nobody will or can explain it. I have SD3 and I’m a drummer. But I suck at computers. Thanks, Greg
Sorry to say but in comparasion to SD3 it´s not even close. I was playing around with the drum rack in Ableton and compared to the samples in SD 3. The drum racks for ableton sound awful sorry to say.
Hi, I'm struggling as the tempo will not change . I clicked on change tempo and nothing happens. Anyway to fix this? I youtube this problem and found nothing.
Great tutorial! I've been using SD3 for a few years now but I learned a couple of new tricks here. SD3 is definitely the most powerful tool in my arsenal and it makes being a professional sounding one man band a very attainable thing.
Someone's been out in the sun for too long XD
It has it downfalls obviously:
1. Not as many shortcuts as in Logic's piano roll
2. Inversed zooming with the mouse wheel for some reason.
3. Impossible to move several midi regions (like drums and bass) at the same time in the arrangement window.
Video made me sweat and I wanted to take off the hat I'm not wearing three times.
Finally. The exact feature I’ve been looking for in a Drum VST this entire time. *SUCK IT, STOCK GROOVES.*
I just got spd 3 and let me tell its truly amazing. The features, the sounds, the mics - everthing about it is nexl level,
*B A D A B I N G B A D A B O O M*
edit: holy shit okay all that aside this is really detailed!
Pro tools, for many years was really just a digital computer replacement for a multitrack recorder with good audio editing. evolved from Sound Tools which was "just" an audio editor in it's day. So it's history was originally as a pure audio recording and editing tool. Parallel with this we had the E-magic Creator/Logic and Cubase (amongst many others!) which originated as MIDI sequencers. What has happened is that the two different strands have converged over the years, in that Logic (as it is now) Cubase, et al have added audio recording, and Pro Tools have added MIDI functionality. The upshot is that Pro Tools is still considered the "Professionals" audio recording tool, and the others are for Musicians who need midi. So the relative lack of functionality in Protools is really just a historical consequence of where in the music world they came from. Not saying either approach is better, BTW. Different strokes, etc. But as a long time Logic user, who has just bought SD3 i',m looking forward to getting to grips with what sounds like the best drum source i have heard to date. Not a drummer, myself, but have just bought en E-drum kit as i love messing about with a kit!
MIDI on Pro Tools is roughly on par with freeware. You'll be much happier with basically everything else.
Unless you know how to use the midi editor. Never failed me.
Outstanding tutorials! Thanks for doing these!
“Digitally laid out” dude you’re the man. Subscribed.
It's really cool that this is in Superior now. Can you edit grooves from the grid editor in the play style editor (and back again?) That would be SUPER handy. I wish ezdrummer made it less of a pain to write a custom groove, manipulate it in the play style editor, and then make additional adjustments in a piano roll.
Love the channel. I look forward to deep diving your songwriting vids. But right now I have a really stupid question. (You think people will laugh at using Pro-Tools... I have been recording my Roland kits for the last 6 years with nothing but my laptop, a small P.A. and Audacity!) Yeah. My guitarist and singer friends send me a track and I put the drums on. I've had good results But it's a long, time consuming, painstaking process. Anyway I finally broke down and got SD3 and Cakewalk. But I cannot find a tutorial to show me the bare basics of how to hook it to my TD-17, do I have to have DAW hardware or just software? Can I use a regular ext. hard drive or does it have to be SSD? I've never worked with MIDI or a real DAW even. I've played drums all my life and E-drums for 10 years so I feel embarrassed to even ask. But there's really no "Recording E-drums with SD3 For Dummies" book out there. I'll be psyched if you respond. If not I will still be checking out your channel. Keep up the good work.
I have the TD27KV, so I don’t know if it’s the same but I just connect it via the USB out to a USB port on my computer and then record arm the track. I don’t know how Cakewalk works but figure out how to route a USB MIDI device to the track that has SD3 on it and you should be good to go
The SD3 modi editor is very good but if feels upside down, for some reason I want it to go kick on the bottom and so on...
Thanks for the video. Great post.
thanks dude ! great tips !
I loaded a few kits that came with it... and the snare articulations are greyed out. Does that mean that kit/ snare does not included them? I could not get it to work.
nice, this vid came in handy today
Cubase has that since version 3 as I know...
The Cubase drum editor was like this since version 1 on the Atari ST, released in 1989. The diamonds were the Cubase logo!
And Slowtools doesn't have that so weird!
it looks like the sd3 editor is based on the one that Cubase has. I love Cubase editor
curious why you didn't touch on the velocity randomization? That's a huge component - and I just started looking into this product 2hrs ago and saw it elsewhere.
excellent video. thanks!
My man, thumbs up
Let's take a look at the hi hats...HOLY HELL!!! LOL!!!
Pro tools I can "draw" velocities for cymbal rolls and dynamic builds. Here I am forced to adjust each velocity by hand. Not being able to use "control - z" to undo is hard to get used to. Truthfully the only advantage i find here is that the piano roll is labeled. I've been programming drums by hand for years and disagree that this midi editor is superior.
@@tjthegreat7 superior drummer does not have this function that I can tell. That's my point. I'm not comparing to other daws
Question.... I have a tribal beat up in grid editor and it shows the snare, kick drum and hi hat but does not show the toms. In every other MIDI grid editor I've used you can see every instrument being used. Am I missing something?
woah look at my money fly awaaaaaaaaay GODDAMIT
Considering paying $500 aussie just to get the MIDI editor no joke
Why couldn't Pro Tools have this instead of the awful piano roll
So cool, I think you answered my question. I was recently making templates and I was wondering if I really needed to open up a track for each drum in my DAW which is Reaper. After watching your video it seems I do not, which is cool because visually I hate having too many tracks if I do not need them. I mean if there is no advantage for having to open a track for each part of the drum kit, then I'd rather not do that. Agree? Thanks, Rob
Can youncnage the grid to 32nd or 64th? Cool vid thanks !
I’m new. How do I get my track into Abelton? Simple question but nobody will or can explain it. I have SD3 and I’m a drummer. But I suck at computers. Thanks, Greg
Great video, thanks! Question, is there a count-in for the click? Or do I have to edit my recording to start at 1?
Thanks
BADA-BING BADA-BOOM!
I tried to edit a groove in the editor but when I played it it wouldnt play a kick hit i added. Trying to edit 32nd notes to match guitar.
Are there any MIDI editors better than the SD3 one?
Wow! I might have to buy this, it looks so much easier than a normal piano roll.
Ableton gang drum rack.
Sorry to say but in comparasion to SD3 it´s not even close. I was playing around with the drum rack in Ableton and compared to the samples in SD 3. The drum racks for ableton sound awful sorry to say.
It's called a drum matrix...
Pro tools midi editor is a right ball ache
That room hott daddy?
2 yrs later I still can't stop laughing at this...
Because he is look like the editor in Cubase)
You should use Cubase, it has already had all this shit since the 90s
Pro tools should just get a decent midi editor already
Cubase!
yeah just rename the midi notes so you dont need to memorize them... " *mind blown* "
Cubase rules.
all daws are the same.... hello!? Really? .... nope
Omg first.
I win, everybody who posts after me is losing.
You have bad background noise in this video
Hi, I'm struggling as the tempo will not change . I clicked on change tempo and nothing happens. Anyway to fix this? I youtube this problem and found nothing.
Your voice went all quiet when your face wasn't on screen.