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If you are serious about your drum sound and programming then this has to go to the top of your to-do list right now. The mixer is a powerhouse of possibilities. Superior Drummer 3 is extraordinary: a game changer on all fronts. One can only imagine with further supervised machine learning from Toontrack, Tracker will probably guess what tracks are being loaded into it before you even record them.
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find all the kicks in this file, all the hats in this file etc. I then told Tracker to find a specific instrument for each loaded track. I did a much simpler version of that demo here.įirst, I took a stereo drum file and loaded it several times over into Tracker.
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The result is unbelievable at first – given the amount of time taken – not more than 45 minutes to extract a full drum performance into individual parts from a stereo file. Among many other things, you can further train Tracker to ignore bleed from surrounding multitrack files (especially useful on Tom multitracks for example), and once the files are analyzed you can fine tune in minute detail any hits that Tracker may have missed or added by mistake. Tracker is a miracle that shaves hours off drum replacing and ensures getting back to more creative tasks in a fraction (seriously a fraction) of the time.Īt the press event in Belgium, Toontrack demonstrated how it is even possible to extract drum parts from a stereo recording by loading the stereo, drums-only file into Tracker and telling it to look for kicks on one track, hi-hats on another, and so on. The full capabilities of Tracker are far, far beyond the scope of this review, but take my word for it, it goes deep. It also converts the whole drum performance, and each individual instrument, into MIDI which you can then save and move down onto the Song Track window for further manipulation with the Grid Editor. It’s a drum to MIDI conversion AI that can automatically detect the kind of drum instrument being imported into it, and then replace that live drum audio with a similar sound from the SD3 library. In SD3 however it is possible to shorten the envelopes of the whole kit (or a single kit piece of course) but still have it ‘bleed” into a room mic to regain the room sound. For example, in many cases when shortening a drum sample one ends up truncating the room sound recorded along with it and the sense of realism is lost. Such flexibility opens up a world of drum sound design and realism that I have never heard before. You have the option to add a variety of distant mics to the whole kit, or even to just single parts, and it’s even possible to offset the distant mics to fix any potential phasing issues. But there is an amazing upside to this – in stereo, all those surround channels effectively become different colored room mics! Once again SD3 just boggles the mind.
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It’s a bold nod to the future of audio production for sure, but let’s be honest, a significant portion of SD3 users will never come close to working on full immersive rigs, and one can be forgiven for wondering what happens to all those extra channels of audio when working in plain old stereo.
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At first I was bemused at the 11.1 mix capabilities of SD3. (Stacks replace MIDI Nodes for power SD2 users out there.) I stacked over twenty samples onto one hi-hat and get the impression you could load a hell of a lot more. Later in this review I have some audio examples of what possibilities stacking brings to drum programming and sound design. With the Stacking feature in SD3 you can layer multiple sounds to play back at the same time and trigger them with the same MIDI note. You can replace an existing drum, add a custom sample as a new instrument (X-Drum), or add it to an existing instrument or Stack. SD3 now supports importing third party samples. This is made all the more easy with the new Search Instrument window that enables filtered searching by library, drum type, kit piece and so on. The possibilities are endless already, but it doesn’t stop there. Any existing SD2 and EZ Drummer library kit or individual kit piece can be loaded into SD3. The six kits for review – Ayotte, Gretsch, Pearl, Premier, Ludwig, Yamaha – were specifically chosen by Toontrack and George Massenburg to cover a wide range of musical styles, but they only form the basis of what is possible.