Let’s get it working with SD3 inside Reaper. Controlling The Drums From Maschine Mikro mk3Įarlier in the year, I bought a Native Instruments Maschine Mikro mk3 (MMMK3 for short) to use for drum programming. I’m sure that, at some point, I’ll go back and tone it down a bit. It eats up about 5GB of RAM on my system, at the time of writing. For now, I’ve gone through and switched on mic bleed for every channel. Ironically, while mixing a real kit is often about eliminating as much mic bleed as possible, digital kits with no mic bleed can sound a bit unrealistic.īack in SD3, on the ‘Mixer’ tab, the top row controls whether or not mic bleed is enabled for each channel, and how much mic bleed there should be. When you mic one up, each microphone picks up sound from other parts of the kit as well. Building A More Realistic Sound Using Mic Bleed If you’re likely to audition drum kits on a regular basis, make sure you use the ‘Drum Parts’ presets at the bottom of the presets list. If you then switch back to the ‘Drums’ tab in SD3 and start clicking on individual pieces of the kit, you should now see the audio coming through separate channels in Reaper.īe aware: if you start exploring the different drum kits in SD3 through its presets, each preset comes with its own routing. I believe that these are used if you want to emulate old techniques before close-mic’ing a kit was a thing?
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The video is for Logic Pro X, but it’s mostly concerned about the SD3 plugin, not the DAW. I’ve followed the advice in this YouTube video. Which Parts Of The Kit Should Be Routed Where? As long as you’re happy to stick with the effects that are built into SD3, you can still process different parts of the kit in different ways. This makes SD3 very usable with DAWs like LUNA, which do not support virtual instruments with multi-channel output. There’s a fully-featured mixer inside SD3, and by default, it routes all output to just two channels. Unfortunately, the audio inside SD3 doesn’t automatically route out to all of those individual channels. I created a new virtual instrument track, added the SD3 plugin, and Reaper immediately offered to set up all the different sub-tracks automatically for me.
That allows us to apply different effects to each part of the drum kit (kick, snare, toms, hats, cymbals, room mics etc etc) just like you would if you’re recorded a physical kit. The key reason why I’m doing this in Reaper – and not LUNA – is because Superior Drummer 3 publishes its audio out to multiple tracks. That’s something to be aware of, if you’re using these products and you’re a bit tight on disk space. The older Superior Drummer 2 / EZ Drummer products seem to use an older installer, that isn’t aware of external drives. That’s how old SD3 is!) There were some updates for the SD3 drum library today, and the Toontrack installer installed those updates onto that external drive. (This was years ago, when laptops came with a lot less internal storage than they do today. One thing I really liked: when I bought SD3, I got the version that came with all the drum samples preloaded onto an external drive. I don’t plan on using it, but if I open any old projects where it was used, at least they should still work (fingers crossed). While I was at it, I also installed Superior Drummer 2. Restarting Reaper is a much quicker way to make sure it happens.) (I’m pretty sure there’s a way to force Reaper to rescan for plugins while it is open, but it’s getting a bit hard to find little things like this in Reaper these days. I needed to restart Reaper afterwards, so that it could detect the newly installed SD3 plugin. It’s a fair bit to download, but at least I already have the drum samples on an external hard drive. This is done via Toontrack’s Product Manager.
Step 1 was to get Superior Drummer 3 (SD3 for short) installed onto my M1 Mac. Controlling The Drums From Maschine Mikro mk3.Building A More Realistic Sound Using Mic Bleed.Which Parts Of The Kit Should Be Routed Where?.This is partly a note to myself, and partly a tutorial, on how I setup Superior Drummer 3 and Reaper to work well together. Why? Because I need to work on some midi drums, and LUNA doesn’t really support that yet. I’ve recently switched back from Universal Audio’s LUNA DAW to good old Reaper.
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