Drag and Drop from Superior Drummer into DP?

by **wolfetho** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:28 am

Hello:

I'm using Superior Drummer v. 2.3 and DP 2.74.
I just discovered that when I try to drag and drop into DP
individual MIDI drum parts(snare, kick, HH)from an entire groove,
that it doesn't retain the same timing as the groove when its
played within Superior Drummer.

For example, if I drag each part (snare, kick, HH) onto separate MIDI
tracks in DP, the snare is playing on beats 1 and 3 instead of 2 and 4
like it does in Superior.The kick and hh seem OK, but when I add the snare
its off.When I drag the entire MIDI loop (the one that plays all three drum parts together) its fine. Is this feature in Superior and E-Z player Pro that splits your MIDI drum parts not compatible with DP?

Thanks,
Tom

by **RROY** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:44 pm

Just tried this in DP 7.24 and can confirm that snare parts do not position themselves properly. Never tried this before. Kick's and hihats do seem to be okay. Tried doing this in Logic and snare parts are okay there. So this may be A DP bug. You could drag the complete file into DP and separate the kick,hat and snare on to there own tracks.

by **wolfetho** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:19 pm

Thanks RROY for trying this. Yes,I tried the same thing (w/ same files)
into Ableton Live v.8 and they played fine.I hope this bug can be fixed.
I really like being able to drag split files into DP. It really makes it easier to
process and edit parts separately.

Thanks,
Tom

by **FMiguelez** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:51 pm

How and where are you dragging and dropping them? (TO, SE, GE...)

Also, is the target editor window quantized-enabled?

by **Armageddon** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:38 pm

Unfortunately, if you're just dragging snares or kicks from a SD groove, the first snare hit = the beginning of the selection and thus, the beginning of the loop (since it snaps to the grid in the Tracks window on the basis of the first actual note). Your best best it to drag the entire groove into one track, replicate that track as many times as you need and eliminate the other drums from each one of those tracks to obtain the isolated sound you're going for -- that's likely the only way your snares, kicks, etc. will stay in place in relation to one another across a number of loop tracks. Bear in mind, too, that when you select the portion of a snare track for a loop, the selection has to be the exact same length (and with the same start and end positions) as the selection for the kick, the hats, etc., or they'll play out of sync with one another. You can also try dragging your MIDI elements into the tracks as you described, then, selecting all the notes in that track and nudging them where they're actually supposed to start, but it sounds pretty much like what you're already doing.

by **wolfetho** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:54 pm

Thanks guys! I'm dropping the files in the Tracks window in DP.
I'm wondering why the same
drag and drop method works fine in
Live and Logic, and not DP. Is this a bug?
I was really looking forward to using this split
feature in Superior and EZPlayer Pro.