LIVE STREAM: Superior Drummer 3 w/ E-Drums - Session 1 

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in my FIRST ever RU-vid live stream! I had an absolute blast!!!!

As a new drummer/e-drummer, this has been the most helpful video I’ve seen on this topic. I’ve watched literally 100+ here on RU-vid. Thank you so much!

OMG this is sp helpful. Just started using SD3 with my kit and constantly had to adjust levels in SD3 to make everything sound even, but now it's all done in my kit. This is invaluable.

Truly excellently done throughout! Really man, so good and seamlessly professional. You actually covered a lot of useful information in a short amount of time. This is a great resource you are providing and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. I've watched this as a replay, so thank you for keeping it available. I started watching Session 1 before I realized Session 3 was live streaming, but I want to watch them in order. By next week I will have watched the other sessions and will be able to join the stream live. Thanks you for doing this. Peace

Luke, this is a super informative stream and just what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to make it happen.

Great video, this is the 1st I've seen that really demonstrates how the modules interact with virtual drum plug-ins. Definely going to check out the rest of your class.

Legendary stuff. These videos are the new encyclopedia for e-drummers. Thanks a lot, and looking forward to the next live stream!

Thank you, setting up my td-50x to superior 3 currently and this was extremely helpful.

Best video about work with E-drums/Superior 3. Jojo Meyer's sticks - perfect. Thank you! 😀

So glad i discovered you today! This video was such a treat to watch and broke down more complicated concepts into simple terms. You are a hero for giving this information away for free with these videos. this info is certified GOLD nuggets. Just finished going through the whole thing, invaluable tips and tricks. You were able to simplify the pad settings in such an easy to understand way. Your setup and camera angle is absolute professional quality as well. Definitely gonna use a lot of what I learned here and apply these concepts to my Roland TD-11. I am learning how to record with multi channels through Superior Drummer 3 on Ableton on my Mac, and each day slowly starting to understand how they function more and more. What seemed super challenging and complicated has been simplified for me and its all thanks to this video. Thank you!

My apologies, the comments replay isn't working, I'll have to see why. I did capture the comments on my other computer and appreciate all the questions and feedback. A couple points of clarity...this first session was focused a lot on drum module settings, however the remaining three sessions will be all focused on Superior Drummer 3. I wanted to get the drum module discussion out of the way as this greatly impacts what you "feed" into Superior Drummer 3. That said, there were some questions/comments related to the curve settings in the Roland TD-30. Specifically around the Loud 1 and Loud 2 settings. Someone commented that this "gates" out lower velocities completely. It doesn't gate them in the sense that you eliminate trigger hits, but it does force lower velocities to be interpreted at a higher level. This provides more consistency at the expense of a bit less dynamic range. However, you can still manipulate this later in Superior Drummer 3 using the E-drum or Drum tab velocity curves. An alternative method may be to set all settings in the drum module to a "Linear" curve setting, then setup any velocity curves on a per instrument and per articulation basis for more control in the Edrum Settings within Superior Drummer 3, covered in the latter portion of this video. That's another way to get the exact velocity response you want with an even more detailed level of control. I'll briefly cover this in the next session to clarify before we dive into the Superior Drummer 3 related content.

Legendary stuff……want to see more…..love the content…..love Superior 3 obviously 😀

This is perfect man, from the module settings to the program you covered everything to get started.

These are the best tutorials on SD3 I’ve ever seen! Thank you!!!😁💜🥁

Absolutely fantastic. Can’t wait for the next one.

Thanks for doing this SD3 video series Luke. There is so much valuable and much-needed info that many of us have been waiting for. Great job!! Hopefully Toontrack will see the value in having you continue this series after the first four.

Amazing livestream… Highest level livestream and edrumming! ❤

Fantastik! Amazing video!! I'm waiting for the next week, I'm so excited!! We need mooooore!!!

thanks so much, this is definitely one of my favourite educational drum videos! :-D love it!!!

Great work, Luke! I admire your loooong-time dedication to perfecting your sound and drumming skills while sharing your wisdom with others. There are lots of great drummers out there, lots of great techies, but hardly any who can do both on your level of excellence. Glad to know you, my friend, and really happy for your successes!

I just got the Roland TD-27 and SD3. This helped my set up immensely. Appreciate it.

Dude, I'm just now watching this. I dig your video. Cool to see you talk through this time without a word for word script. It worked great!

This is really great info! Very well captured audio and video. It doesn't get better than that! Thanks a lot!

I’m late to the party but wow dude, what a phenomenal job you’ve done with this video

Great job on your live stream Luke.I like that you started with a triggering knowledge class to get started.Without a fundamental understanding of how triggering works and affects the rest of the process people can get overwhelmed pretty quick and not have their excitement turn into aural/drumming/recording bliss.Looking forward to learning about SD3 with your next live streams.Keep up the great work.

Great session! It is really helping me setup my TD-50 with SD3.

This was great! Thank you for doing this. Got my TD-25 hooked up and it is running a lot more smoothly since watching this while working through the setup. Goodbye pesky ghost notes!

Great Content so amazing helping people achieve great sounds.

Great insights! Love it!

This is great stuff! Thanks a lot for this.!

Brilliant videos and thanks for this!!!

Fantastic video! Thanks for doing a spotlight on e-drums. I have a Jobeky kit that is a house kit in my studio in Nashville, and me not being a drummer, I’m always wanting to find ways to make it a great experience for everyone who comes in. I love your videos on tips and tricks making great sounds in Superior Drummer!

Excellent information and great insights of how to setup the module en Superior Drummer. I am using EZdrummer but now I gonna make the jump to Superior Drummer. So Toontrack give this man a bonus 😉👍🏻

Thanks for doing these. You're surely the number one reference when it comes to mastering the dark art of getting great sounds from e-drums. It's not easy - impossible for many, many people, actually -, and you somehow manage to overcome all the hurdles involved in the process. Toontrack should keep you on retainer.

Great stuff! I hope Toontrack will give us more of these

Fantastic tutorial, thank you.

Good stuff! I have the same Jobeky drums & TD30 so this was very helpful. SD3 is next on my list. I've been playing for 45 years and have always been intimidated by MIDI. I just need to dive in! Thanks for the great content.

Man thank you so much. You really cleared up a lot of problems I've been dealing with for quite awhile!

This is so Great!! The sounds are wow!! Beats any high end Module I have heard!!

This video is legendary

This is soo good! Played electronics Roland for 10y and not digging in to settings this way. Thanks man!

This video is everything. I’m slowly working through this series tweaking my td-50 because I just recently got SD3. Should have done this years ago.

Wow exelent master class please make more videos I lerning a lot with your videos thank you.

This was really helping! Thanks a lot! I run my Roland through a TD30K and SD3 exactly as you do. Now I need 3 million dollars for the video and audio equip, lol!

Great Live presentation.

Thanks for all the explanations man! Toontrack has right to support you

Fantastic snare sensi

Fantastic Job!!

the video is amazing!! THANKS FOR THIS!

Brilliant really useful Luke thank you.

Outstanding content!!

you are an actual saint

this is an amazing guide, thank you!

Man ! What a useful session! I got here by a recommendation by Mike Luke & Justin (65drums) Live stream that Mike put up. I learned so much. I actually have all the gear necessary for this setup (one way or another) and also use SD3 for a little while , so this is really an eye opener! Tnx so much DrumAngle. This was so informative and answered a bunch of my questions, really exited to check this stuff out, also wanna check these fancy cymbals ! 🤓🥁

Very interessant. What a Job !!!!!! Thank you, Thank you. Thank you

Great info to chew on here! Thanks!

All sounds good

This is the future of the drums

You were my big inspiration in 2017 where i build my own e kit.. with SD3. One note for snare drum: positional sensing is the best, but if you want to eliminate any machine gunning, you need to dive into layers.. add 0 (endless) number of layers on the snare samples. And enable alternate samples for snare dum triggering.This will alternate between slightly different samples and the snare drum will sound SOOOO natural!

Thank you for this!

Great info - been struggling with false triggers from TD-50 to SD3. Will definitely be trying these recommendations. Thanks! :-)

Great video! Thank you for all your effort in investing in your gear and making another helpful video. I just started with sd3 using a Roland td 10 kit to trigger. Working well except the HH no matter how I set it I can not get it to trigger correctly in sd3. So I’m still using the Roland sound for that which works but make recording editing a bit more difficult. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Looking forward to other videos.

Thanks a lot. Its for me the first time to see a all important settings in the drum-module. I use a TD-25 and I wonder about some respones from my toms and cymbals. Now after changing settings in my drum-module, everything is much much better. So you and toontrack are right, that first of all you have to adjust your trigger to the right function. I will enjoy your next videos. Greetings Holger

Thank u for explain your very nice🙏

Thank you❤

thank you it helped me a lot!!!!

We just got the Roland td50 for the studio in Scotland now we are going to get super drummer 3 makes life easy mate

Perhaps you could produce a video that outlines the video & audio gear used in these tutorials and how the interface with each other.

Thanks 🙏

perfect!

I benefit greatly thank you luke

Thanks a lot for these detailed insights for all of us e-drummers using the great opportunities of superior drummer. I love that you are starting from the scratch! Can you please explain a bit more detailed your module settings for the hihat and the ride cymbal comming to a decent result for a smoth ballance and no fail triggers. Thanks a lot, looking forward to the other sessions! Greetings Kay

I can't believe I am watching this amazing content only right now. Thanks for sharing this!! I am a TD-20 owner and use SD3 as well, but a never tried to setup my module before playing in SD. Maybe that's the reason I always struggled to get decent sensitivity while playing. To get worst, my drum module display is damaged and I can't navigate through it. I wonder if a new and modern drum module could solve this issue.

Fantastic job! By far, the most helpful content on edrums. One thing I'd note is that turning local control off isn't always a good idea. For instance, I set up a kit to trigger SD3 that's parked next to front of house at my church and outputting every SD3 channel signal to the sound console directly through DANTE. I also have a redundant stereo pair going directly from the module to the front of house in case something goes haywire. If local control is off, you lose the redundancy.

I've been using EZ Drummer and Superior Drummer 2.0 as sound sources for my e-kit almost since they came out. I think this may have convinced me to go ahead and upgrade, lol.

Found this after you’d streamed the session. Thank you so much for doing it. Just a brilliant learning aid. I hope you are still answering questions- because I have one that I’ve not been able to answer. I use a newer model Roland TD27 - but I’m using it with a collection of Roland pads I’ve amassed over years. Do you know if I select Roland TD27 in SD3 whether or not it maps from the drum module or assumes that all the pads are from the TD27 kit? In other words, if most of my pads come from a TD30 kit, should I select that module for a more accurate representation? Hope that makes sense?

I’m right on time

Hi, great video, thank you 👍 question regarding the hi hats. Once you edit the points of opening and close in SD3, does this save and overwrite the original TD30 preset within the module so that every time you use the module after edit, this will have your saved settings etc? Make sense??? I am using ATV 14 hats and am having some issues with the hats on my TD30, so hence the question about editing the parameters. Hope you can help, thanks man!!! 👍👍👍

This content is crazy good! I’m saving up to buy quality edrums and sd3 and couldn’t be more happy that all of my future questions are already answered! One question: is it possible to save triggering presets in the module? Too have one jazz presets with lots of sensitivity and one for loud rock with less dynamic? Keep up the magic work! Greetings from Sweden :)

I can honestly say for me, you're a God-Send. I have been struggling with EZDrummer1 and a Roland TD-20 to dial everything in for years. All the way through EZD2 and 3 and Superior Drummer 1, 2, and now 3. Finally it seems we have the tools to dial it in. Hardest thing was the VH-12 high hats, never did get those right, but now with SD3 I'm hopeful I can dial them in. I'm on vacation right now, but when I get home, I'm going to do a deep dive. So glad I stumbled across these videos. I can't thank you enough, I'm so appreciative. Keep 'em coming Bro'. I have so many questions, is it possible to communicate with you through email?

At about 1:21 min into the video, you mention you go usb out with the TD-12 to your Motu. Can you explain as my TD-12 doesn't have a usb port. Excellent video by the way. I have a TD-12 with a bad screen. Midi out into a Motu M-4, but still experiencing too much latency through my stereo monitors. If I download the Roland software for the TD-12into my PC, will the settings from the module appear on my PC screen? Thanks!

Very good infos here. Someone can say me what is the minimal Roland module that I should get that I can control the threshold like in that one? Or all of them have those settings?

Would be nice with snare side stick and rimshot function/overview. I'm having trouble with side stick and rimshot, using Jobeky drums SD3 with Roland Td11 modul.

@DrumAngleOffical 11:05 You said you use SD live and that you would go through that setup in another session? I can't find where you've talked about this. I really want to try SD3 live!

OMG this was SO GOOD. I found out about this thru the Toontrack forum. This series of videos is what I've been needing for years so thank you for doing this and helping us bridge the gap between physical and virtual! I've been taking lots of notes and look forward to the next ones! Curious to know, what in ear monitors do you use for streaming and for LIVE performance? Are they custom molds? Also, your pedal looks gorgeous - what model is that? Side note--> Seems like there is an SD3 bug at 1:03:14 and 1:04:43. You played Center and the "Center" sensor didn't light up green. I wonder if they are aware of that issue.

What's the best feeling velocity curve for each category of instruments so like snare, toms, bassdrum, cymbals, hihat?

I think someone asked about using two hi-hat controllers. SD3 can do this. What I did was add my second hi-hat like I would any other extra instrument. Then in the MIDI Mappings for the new hi-hat scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see a mapping for Pedal CC Control. Map it to a CC that is not being used. Once mapped you can go to the MIDI In dialog and fine tune the Hi-hat pedal for the second hi-hat. Most modules only have one input for a hi-hat controller so you will have to provide for another controller input somehow.

How do I map for example the left crash with all it's articulation to an other cymbal. I just wanted to switch all attached midi notes to an cymbal in Sup3 i like. When I use the midi mapping I have to learn all articulation seperated. Is it possible to drag and drop from one cymbal to another? thx for the answer

Hi, fantastic drumming and drum skills !!!!, I had a lot fun watching this & super idea to Toontrack, this is exactly what we e-drummers using SP and MacBook need - a way we can get feedback to our questions, thank you 4 setting this up, this starts filling the gap. My question would be : could you maybe show the next session briefly how to achieve the "sit down and drum within a second" ? what I mean is : I got a similar setup as used, i.e. TD-12, Babyface Audio controller, MacBookAir. The problem for me is - when I put the Mac to PowerSaving, or switch power off when leaving the e-drum set and coming back the next day and open the McBook again, of course either the midi is not automatically re-connected again, or in Superior I have to close the app and restart it and select the preset again to correctly work. What I would love to have is a setup in which I open the MacBook, switch on TD-12 Power and I just can hit the e-drum and go playing, instead of first dealing 1-2 Minutes with reconnecting signals to SP3 and re-start the app. Maybe Luke has a perfect solution for the "sit down and drum" issue :-)) Thank you very much in advance.

Outstanding video. I've seen many of yours when you just started out. When I build my next home studio I am going to use your setup as inspiration! I know technology changes radically each year but I'm sure the gear you are using like the video switcher won't go out of style anytime soon. One quick question regarding your metal cymbals - do you like Jobeky's or Field's better? And with these cymbals do you find they chew up your drumsticks in the same manner as acoustic cymbals and you get fine "stick sawdust" all over your mesh heads? Cheers my friend!

Great Session man! I look forward to the next and all future sessions! Can you spell out the brand of the drums and cymbal brand? I would like to research them and I couldn't really get the pronunciation on the live stream. Every way I typed in the search gave me no results. Thanks again!

are we able to get some artists tone drums to import into superior drummer 3?

regarding 44:10... I have the eDrumin 10 which is not in the menu... does anyone know which module settings should I use?

I didn’t see the TD27 module on the list of choices. Did they update SD3 for that module?

Question: I am using a Simmons SD9K to trigger into Superior Drummer 3.I am using usb to a mac air as the midi connection. I have a Presonus Quantum Thunderbolt interface that I am using as well. Can you give me some advice on how to use this setup live without noticeable latency? How I currently have it setup is that I have routed the drums to multi-out. Then I routed out of the quantum using the line outs into a mixer for monitoring. With that being said there is about a 20 ms latency delay that my drummer is feeling. Is there anyway to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

I have a large drum kit using two Roland TD-27 modules. I have EZDRUMMER 3 and Superior Drummer 3 downloaded on my laptop with an external SSD from Toontracks. I use Jobeky triggers and Roland cymbals. Issue for me is that SD3 doesn’t seem to want to connect to my kit. Local is set “off” on modules, and module setting on SD3 is for TD-27. Still. Nothing! Please help.

I use a tourtech tt 22m but its not listed in the presets. What should i use ? Can anyone help please ? Thanks

Great Video. Would you ever use SD3 live on stage with a laptop?

hello I would like to ask when I am paying on my Roland TD 50X sometimes when a hit a drum the Sound don't com and I wonder what can I do Love from Mik Roy from Denmark

Does the positional sensing in SD3 work with your TD 12?