Toontrack updates Superior Drummer to v3.0.3

Toontrack has updated Superior Drummer to v3.0.3, a pretty big update by the look of the change list below.

New:

• MIDI In/Out indicators have been added.
• A mono setting for Cubase has been added (32 mono out instead of 16 stereo).
• You can now choose how many CPU cores Superior Drummer 3 should use (in Settings > Performance).
• A setting has been added for opening Macro Controls every time a preset with active controls is loaded.
• The "Add Instrument" menu now also contains user instruments.
• The "Show" menu now also contains "MIDI Mapping Keys.".
• MIDI Mapping Keys visibility is now saved in Properties View presets.
• Dropping an external MIDI file on the track now gives the option to apply the e-drum transform to it.
• Recording aftertouch is now supported.
• CC-controlled hi-hats and snares can now activate stacks of individual articulations.
• The number of macro controls shown at the same time can now be more than 5, depending on the window width.
• The mouse pointer now shows a plus sign during copy-drag in the grid editor and the mixer.
• Tracker: 1/1, 1/2 and 1/2 Triplet have been added to the Select menu.
• The grid editor now shows flashing dots when notes are played.
• A "not loaded" indicator has been added to MIDI Mapping Keys.
• While dragging, you can now open the Song Creator or switch to the Grooves tab by hovering over the button or the tab, respectively.
• The active library preset is now shown with an asterisk if changes have been made.
• The active e-drum preset (in Settings) is now shown with an asterisk if changes have been made.
• The mixer can now autoscroll when effects or sends are dragged.
• The Grooves browser can now autoscroll when files are dragged to User MIDI.
• A new e-drum hi-hat pedal preset which closes at 90 has been added - good for some Roland modules.
• The velocity curve editor now shows incoming MIDI notes and how they are affected.

Changes:

• E-drum settings are now saved in projects, but menu options have been added to load the default settings (from the default project, or global e-drum settings in 3.0.2 or earlier).
• Moving the playhead in the DAW without playing now moves the song track playhead if Follow Host is on.
• MIDI file division on external drags is now 9600 instead of 960.
• An "all bleed" bounce through the mixer no longer adds bleed to silent room mics.
• Tooltip improvements.
• Many undo events have got better names.
• Tight and closed settings in e-drums are now better kept when you switch between different number of opennesses (by loading a different hi-hat).
• Whenever another instance locks us out from accessing the database, a dialog that says "Waiting for another instance of Superior 3 to finish" is shown.
• Dragging out a single song block from the song track now gives it the name of the block type.
• Loading a part of a preset no longer changes which preset is shown as the currently loaded one.
• Track zoom level is now saved in projects.
• "Search with Tags" can now be used on MIDI files that don't exist in the database.
• MIDI files dragged from the Grooves browser out from Superior now contain the browser path of the file - can be seen in DAWs.
• Articulations that contain no sound on their own are now greyed out and disabled in the drum articulations list.
• An outline is now shown for the send box that is being dragged.
• Multiple selected user-added mixer channels can now be removed at once with "Remove Channels" in their menus.
• In percussion pads, remapping of other articulations than the first is no longer allowed.
• "Superior Drummer 3 Percussion" and "Superior Drummer 3 Electronic Sounds" can no longer be added in Settings > Libraries.
• Tracker: When adding hits, snap to transients snaps to all transients over the default velocity threshold instead of using the current value.
• Tracker: Preview of transient now starts earlier and captures more of the note.
• Tracker: Pressing the stop button in the Tracker now moves the playhead in the same way as in the song track in the other tabs.
• A custom loop area can now be set even when 'Always loop selected' is on.
• When recording notes (on the song track or Tap2Find) and clicking an unmapped articulation, the next MIDI-mapped articulation will be recorded instead.
• Resetting a peak level in the mixer no longer selects the channel.

Fixes:

• Favorites in Grooves were not properly remembered when the database was rebuilt.
• Starting multiple instances at the same time when the instrument database was being created for the first time caused a crash.
• MIDI playback is now sample accurate even when tempo changes occur within buffers.
• Loading a project with more visible filter columns than the current project could cause a crash.
• Various tempo editor fixes.
• Browser history fixes.
• Running multiple instances of Superior Drummer 3 could cause one or more of them to incorrectly show "database loading" in Grooves.
• In web shop MIDI, searching for only online libraries was broken.
• The quantize knob was not updated when a new row was selected in the grid editor.
• The track length dialog could end up outside the main window.
• A fix for song track copy drag on Mac (when dragging out from the window and back in).
• Having loaded a broken library and pressing a keyboard shortcut caused a crash.
• Fix for a crash when changing between EZX presets in Pro Tools.
• Exported/dragged MIDI files did not always contain correct tempo (s) and time signature (s).
• Pressing Cmd/Ctrl+C when no block was selected on the song track could cause a crash.
• Tracker: The Split Region tool ignored the Snap settings.
• It no longer crashes in Search for Instruments if instrument graphics cannot be loaded.
• Selecting a library that needs to be updated (yielding no graphics) no longer brings back the graphics if scaling is changed.
• External windows in full screen should no longer overlap the taskbar in Windows.
• "Show in Browser" on files not in the database but existing on disk now shows the files in Finder/Explorer.
• Having a user preset selected with the same name as a factory preset no longer selects the factory preset when reloading the project.
• Tracker now gets the hi-hat note from the current mapping instead of hardcoded.
• Total memory (displayed) no longer resets at 16 GB.
• Channel effect presets are now saved as mixer undo.
• Tracker: Fixed a graphical update issue when the ruler format was changed.
• Fixed a graphical issue when undoing turning articulations on/off.
• Some potential crashes when scanning corrupt sound libraries have been fixed.
• MIDI Learn now ignores jitter from MIDI controls.
• CC-controlled articulations can now be MIDI learned.
• Aftertouch messages should no longer in some cases end up reaching the wrong drum.
• Replacing a drum where all articulations are unloaded no longer shows a "library is broken" dialog.
• Tracker: Shift click on the track but outside any region could cause a crash.
• When dragging a new loop to the track and importing tempo, the tempos before and after are better kept.
• When playing the song track in Fruity Loops, notes should no longer sometimes be missed.
• The tempo is now updated correctly when changing, adding and removing song tracks.
• If you cleared the loop inside Tap2Find and then cancelled, the loop could not be played outside of Tap2Find.
• The position of song structure preset playback can now be set.
• Tracker: Real time speed change is processed faster now.
• Tracker: Looping should no longer cause triggered sound and original sound to become unsynched.
• Mixer send box no longer gets stuck in mouse-over state if nothing is selected from the send menu.
• Fixes for Tap2Find loop when changing mapping - lost quantization and could get wrong length.
• Autoscroll did not work in the MIDI Mapping Keys view when dragging keys.
• Superior Drummer 3 no longer scans for VSTs at startup and no longer crashes on Mac if you have UAD plug-ins installed.
• Various text search field fixes.
• Clicking on a hi-hat slider handle no longer moves it if the click is not exactly in the center.
• Adding an offset in Tracker could retrigger detriggered transients.
• Macro knobs with box properties are now saved and restored properly and continue to work after targeted drums have been changed.
• Bounce now honors automation of mixer and its effects through MIDI CC-control, when present in the song track. (But parameter automation by the host cannot be recorded by the song track so that doesn't work when bouncing.).
• Song track play start now resets sampler state for the benefit of cache mode.
• Using a 1/32 time signature should no longer cause the grid editor to crash.
• Tap2Find can search for sidestick again. Remapped drums and double kick MIDI also works.
• Quantize in the grid editor now works again when you deselect the affected notes.
• Fix for opening libraries from Mac-formatted disks using MacDrive software.
• Looping in the browser could result in the first note flamming/phasing.
• Fix for bleed edit in User Mics.
• Fix for mixer meters when using very large buffer sizes (>2400).
• Tracker: Failed attempts to allocate memory for loading large audio files should no longer cause a crash.
• Tracker: Adding user transients should no longer make Snap to transients not work.
• Tracker: Adding an event/transient could crash if a Tap2Find or Song Creator search was going on at the same time.
• Possible crash fix when filtering incoming MIDI when running standalone.
• Dragging a send over an output channel should no longer cause a crash.
• Having old resource files (from a previous installation) could cause a crash at startup.
• Crash fix for corrupt drum graphics.
• Crash fix for switching between certain presets.
• Removing a user mic from the mixer that is used as a side chain would cause a crash.
• Having an e-drum transform active should no longer mess up the 'Learn' function in the MIDI Mapping box.
• Tracker scrollbar graphics fix.
• Fixes to transport controls when changing between Tracker and any other tab.
• Choosing Reset in "Envelope and Offset" did not reset the offset.
• Clicking Recall Solo/Mute in the mixer did not generate an undo event.
• Recording parameters in a DAW in "touch" and "latch" modes should now work better.