Sidney Earl Goodroe

I agree that the drums that came with Superior 2 are not the best for metal. I don't do many metal projects myself but I do a lot of hard rock. I invested in many of the addons. I would imagine you would want to check out the metal kits available at Toontrack. New York Vol. 3 was my goto for a long time for hard rock. Also, Allaire and Rock! I moved to Superior 3 when it was released. I don't think I've even opened 2 since. Toontrack drums do need a lot of massaging to get what you need but I have Addictive and BFD as well. Superior 2 and 3 have always beat them, IMO.

I have 4 total. 2 of those are Studio-Captures synched together so I have 32 channels in and 20 outs running in ASIO. I have a MOTU 24io that is not working now mainly because it has the PCI card instead of the PCIe and worked fine in XP. I have attempted to bring it out of retirement but have had no luck with it in Windows 10. I guess I will consider getting a PCIe card and try that. Lastly, I have an old Focusrite Saffire 6 for a more portable quick and dirty rig. I use the Studio-Captures on a daily basis and they have been steady as a rock.

Same as Eddie!! In 20 some odd years of Windows updates, I have only once had 1 issue with a plugin that was immediately fixed with the patch fix Microsoft sent shortly after.

Great tip on using take lanes for the fills! You could have several fills waiting to be auditioned in the same measure.

I always write my own tracks but I had the privilege of having access to a drum kit in a rehearsal space to learn how drum patterns are performed and I am a trained musician that reads and writes music. That being said, I have taught music students to use the patterns in a DAW to build their tracks. I found an easy way to audition fills that some would argue is too cumbersome but when you get used to it can be pretty quick!!! I must say that using the track builder in Superior Drummer 3 has replaced this workflow and simplified it immensely!! Here goes. 1-Create main groove track. This track only contains the bedrock groove of the song. You could just insert a one or two bar pattern and multiply it to fill as many bars as you want. Now, play the drum track and everywhere that a fill occurs, delete that measure! You could even go within that measure and just delete half the measure, a quarter of a measure, etc,, Just get rid of the spots where the fills will take place. 2-Now, create right underneath the bedrock groove track, another track that is used specifically for fills!! Make sure both drum tracks are assigned to AD2!!! Now you can search for fills and just drop the fills wherever you choose on the fill track!! You have the choice of using the full measure of the fill or cutting just the portion of the fill you want! Now audition what you have and decide what you want. If the fill is not what you're looking for, delete it and insert another until you find the magic one that trips your trigger!😁 Repeat this process for the rest of the track. With some creative cutting and sliding things around you can get some really polished drum tracks that don't sound cobbled together. When you write this process out it looks really complicated but it is not. Now, after you have placed all your fills in the fill track and everything sounds seamless, simply click and drag the fills from their track up into the correct position in your bedrock track. Once you have merged the fills into the bedrock track, delete the empty fills track. If all has gone well you simply bounce to clips and you have one seamless drum performance!!!! As I said before, this process looks complicated in writing but it is simple enough to perform and over time is pretty fast and efficient. I hope this helps anyone out there!! I'm sure someone out there has a better way and hopefully they will chime in and I can learn another way to do this and pass that along to my friends! I wish you luck, my friend.

Install was smooth but be sure to follow the instructions to the tee!!!

I use SD3 as 2 track master and apply just the Bus Console Emulator on the track! Too easy!!

Don't forget the most important ingredient for realistic string performance!!! ARTICULATIONS!!!! Orchestral performances are chock full of different bowing techniques for different timbres. I think you will find if you are using just one sample sawing away thru the whole piece, the results will be mundane and boring in a very short time. That's no reason to not go ahead and do your arrangement now with what you have and later invest in a little more sophisticated string library to replace the instruments you have now.

I have not upgraded to ver. 2. The original VB3 fills my needs. I use a hammond organ mostly in a rock or blues band format where the mix is rather dense. If I did more jazz organ trio type songs I would probably upgrade. I'm happy as is!!!

VB3 has been my goto for years!!!! I had a problem once when Windows 10 had an update that trashed vb3. I contacted Guido who is the guy who developed it and he worked meticulously with me thru emails to fix the problem!! Great one on one support directly to the man who wrote the code. Can't beat that. Btw, Microsoft had to issue a patch fix after about 3 days that fixed VB3. I used NI B4 while VB3 was down. As soon as VB3 was fixed, I immediately replaced B4 with VB3!!! Nothing personal, NI!!😉

Well, I hate to be the first complaint here but I was sent the new EA by Noel explaining to use that installer because the one on the forum did not work. I installed on my Toshiba laptop and it runs fantastic!!! I then installed on my Asus desktop and it turned in to a brick!!!! It froze so hard I had to unplug the power cable to reboot. It did this 3 times!!! I rebooted 1 last time and did everything I would normally do and the computer was fine, until I clicked on CbB and the computer locks up tighter than a drum!!!! I ended uninstalling and going back to my previous version to install and all is good in the world again!!! I think I will pass on Early Access from here on out. I am a working studio and don't have time to go thru that type of ordeal. Lol I eagerly await the finished upgrade!!

Glad to hear it!!! Now, get to work!!!😁

Noel was nice enough to allow me to download an early build of this update a few weeks ago. Trust me, You guys are gonna love this!!!

Thanks, Larry but that is what I did when trying to import in to 3!! The post says while installing to ST2. I was just clarifying that I don't have ver. 2.

I don't have ST2. I was told that ST3 would load ST2 instruments. I imported an old version of Miroslav Orchestra way back when 3 came out and had no issues whatsoever. Symphony Strings 2 is just not happening.

I have downloaded the symphony strings 2 and really having a hard time installing!!! Anyone know the trick? I tried dragging the folder into the instruments folder in ST3. Relisted and ST3 sees the folder but when I click on an instrument folder nothing happens!! Went back to the drawing board and tried importing. Now it shows the instruments but says could not load sample!! Checked the ST3 samples folder and there is no symphony strings 2 sample folder. Any ideas??

That's what I mean when I said dial back on the compression a bit. Also, the players out live and in the studio usually stick with their pedals (if any) and don't have the luxury of parallel compression in their guitar rig. It's about getting the guitar and amp to respond to your touch a certain way. Compression can help or hurt in that process. Parallel compression, most of the time, is about levels.

Sounds like you're heading in the right direction!! I'd try easing back on the compression and the gain a little. Usually a pick tends to really accent the attack or transients of the string. Personally, I try to set the amp so that I really have to dig in hard to make the amp crunch. So, if I lighten up with the pick the amp cleans up. Not completely but just enough to still maintain some dynamics in your playing. My favorite trick is putting a volume pedal in front of the amp so I can control the gain and don't have to take my hands off the strings other than pickup selecting. Anyway, have fun and enjoy. That's what it needs to be about!

I must comment as much as I agree about Roy's tone, he has a much more overdriven amp setting than someone like Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, etc. I had the profound honor of hearing him live and he was CRANKED up. And besides, if you're listening to studio or commercial videos of Roy, I would be willing to bet there was some compression in the mix down on his track. I am by no means on the level of those guys but being a guitar player born and raised in the south, to eat you absolutely have to be able to cover this style as best you can. So we study as closely as possible their guitars, amps, and pedals. If there is a particular player in mind, try YouTube and check what they use. I use Amplitude 4 in the studio. I have a number of amps and guitars that I could drag around but for this style I usually use the dynacomp model in front of a small combo for starters. If the song is a little more dynamic I use the rack tube compressor after the amp with no dynacomp but the tubescreamer with little drive and lots of level in front. These are good starting points for me. Hope this helps get you started! Oh, happy tone hunting!!!Lol

I need to mention that a lot of the snap you hear in that style of picking is not squeaky clean compression!!!! It comes from a little compression and the amp being set for just a bit of breakup. Listen very closely to all these guys and check out their rigs. There is usually a low wattage amp being pushed with either a boost pedal or something like a tube screamer pedal with the drive knob low and the level knob high. Just suggestions!!!!😁

Msmcleod, I thank you my friend!!! Somehow my sync & caching settings were changed. I don't know how but they were more than twice what the settings should be!!! Thanks to all who responded.

Before I answer any questions I will take a closer look at some of the suggestions to the problem and get back to you. Thanks for the suggestions!!

Hi, guys and gals. Something has happened to my audio recording adjustment over the last few updates! I record the audio in place fine but on playback I find the rendered audio is always a bit too early on playback. I have to click and drag the audio over a second or less to relocate the audio in the pocket!! I am hearing the audio fine while monitoring the actual recording but when the stop button is hit the audio always renders just enough out of sync that I to have adjust it even just to hear it back to decide to keep the take. Could someone PLEASE refresh my memory on what to adjust in settings to get my audio back in line? This is really becoming a bit of a problem workflow-wise! As usual, thanks for your time!!

I got the Analog Rack a few years back and for vocals it stays in my projects!!!!! Love the BlueTube plugs that came with Sonar. They get used regularly!!

There are many other sites with fantastic impulse files. I literally have hundreds of them with files that were recorded all over the world as well as very expensive and vintage reverb and delay fx processors. Happy hunting!