Anyone using Superior Drummer???

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I am trying to assign my electronic drums to the drumkit inside Superior 2 inside of Reaper. If anyone knows how to assign, or "learn" as its called can you please send me a pm or help out in this thread... maybe a phone call would be easier?

Thanks, Chad
 
Firstly you will want to get your Edrums to be sending Midi to your DAW. once you have that, open up superior and route incoming midi signal to that. In superior, look for the Mapping page up in the top, construct - mixer - grooves -MAPPING!!!

at the bottom by the keys you will see something called Presetslll

mouse over that then then in the Midi window, you will See Edrums. Set superior to map to that, and hopefully that will work or at least get you in the ballpark. you can make mapping changes here as well
 
Thats a good start, and thank you for your insight there... so Ill add on to this now.

Here is the page where reaper explains the midi control it has over anything midi, all straight from their page.

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/aboutmidi.php

I have a midi in and out on the back of my presonus audiobox and I think that I would have to have my Roland module (SDP-30) hooked up midi out, to the midi in on the back of the Presonus audiobox?

Then comes the confusion of how to configure the settings on Reaper to get it all set up right so it can recognize the audiobox sending midi from the e drums.

ITS ALL SO DAMN FRUSTRATING!!! I wont give up, but damn I have to take a break for tonight. I would really appreciate it if someone could pm me, or just walk me through it over the phone another night. That would be so damn helpful!
 
I am not sure what you have all setup in Reaper just yet. But hopefully it will recognize your audio card, AND midi in from there. You would take midi OUT from your drum machine's brain, IN the midi in on your presonus. in reaper you would create a midi track. should give you the option of assignign an input and output for that track..

or if it has an ALL for midi input that should be fine as well. Open up superior on an aux or instrument track. then arm your midi track which should be receiving from your edrums, tell that track to go out to superior, of if its an all included instrument track you may not have to...

when you hit something on your edrum, it should trigger superior now. Just have to map superior to function properly with an ekit..

I don't use reaper, but hopefully some of these steps will be appropriate for you as well


IF your software is not recognizing the midi input from your presonus, might just have to configure reaper to see the midi port on your interface, but hopefully it already is...
 
Audioholic... You da man.

I'll be hitting you up with some Omni/Trilian/RMX questions soon too (ya, I sprung for Stylus just yesterday as this soft synth bundle is just killer man!!)

Peace,
Mo
 
HA cool. RMX is awesome for drum loops and what not, as well as 3rd party rex file playback....
 
My Roland kit worked straight up without having to map anything in SD2.0 as it's pretty smart out of the box. Follow audioholic's advice and you should be rockin! The only thing that you may need to 'learn' is the open and closed positions on your hi-hat so that you have full hi-hat control. I haven't done this in a while but I remember going through the SD2.0 manual and it being straight-forward enough that I could do it no sweat.
*If you don't have any one with you to have the hi-hat closed when you press learn, just use a heavy book or weight or something, that worked for me**
 
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I have a midi in and out on the back of my presonus audiobox and I think that I would have to have my Roland module (SDP-30) hooked up midi out, to the midi in on the back of the Presonus audiobox?

Then comes the confusion of how to configure the settings on Reaper to get it all set up right so it can recognize the audiobox sending midi from the e drums.

ITS ALL SO DAMN FRUSTRATING!!! I wont give up, but damn I have to take a break for tonight. I would really appreciate it if someone could pm me, or just walk me through it over the phone another night. That would be so damn helpful!
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You're going to go midi out from the SDP-30 to midi IN on the Presonus. Reaper nor the Presonus are going to care what sort of device you have out there, all it's looking for is that 0-127 value coming in.

Your Roland module should have a default listing of the values of every outgoing note (snare-64, kick 3, whatever). You basically want to make the Superior drummer kit match these values. There's a very easy way to detect this via Superiors 'learn' function. You select the drum you want in Superior, hit learn, and then hit your corresponding e-drum once. Repeat this for everything. Once you've done that, save your kit as a xxxx.s20 file, and you're ready to roll.

You will get a bit more into detail about how to do this once you get to the hi-hat as well (ctrl, trig, etc), but that's the basics of it. It should also be noted that some of the Superior kits have sound options that your Roland kit may not, and vice versa (for example, the NY Studios kits have seperate hat hits using the tip of the stick and the shank.. and yes, they do sound different :) )

Once you get the kit finished, you can start recording... and later on if you want to set yourself up with a specific per-kit mapping in Reaper, you can do so.. but if it works like Sonar, it's not necessary to do this at all, it just makes editing after the fact a bit easier.

Let us know if you run into any more hurdles!
 
This is awesome guys... I will get crackin at it tomorrow and will let you know how it goes! Thank you guys!
 
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