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.