Cobus Prinsloo Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Hi all. As I've mentioned before, I use the SS a lot for my drum tracks. Several virtual "instruments" have pretty decent drum kits, and I've set up SS templates for their use with MIDI (see screenshot) However, I have built up quite a large library of percussion sounds in WAV format, and want to know if there's any way to map WAV clips to keys of the MIDI keyboard to enable me to use them in my SS as well? If not, I think it would be a cool feature to add to Sonar. Lastly, what platform is recommended to post my music made in Sonar, for feedback? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Normally you would use a drum sampler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Wouldn’t that new sampler they added do this? I used the one included with Next which for sure played drums , never tried the Sonar version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 (edited) Cakewalk XSampler only holds one sample at a time. I would use NI Battery, but of course any multi-sample sampler would probably do. Indeed, if you have Cakewalk Session Drummer 3 from the olden days, that should be fine as well. In Session Drummer 3, samples can be dragged onto the different kit pieces and then saved as a user kit. Edited June 19 by Canopus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 2 hours ago, John Vere said: Wouldn’t that new sampler they added do this? I used the one included with Next which for sure played drums , never tried the Sonar version. Unfortunately not it only holds a single sample. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurre Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Sitala is a nice little drum sampler. https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2912/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobus Prinsloo Posted June 20 Author Share Posted June 20 (edited) 20 hours ago, Canopus said: Indeed, if you have Cakewalk Session Drummer 3 from the olden days, that should be fine as well Which version of Cakewalk or Sonar are we talking about? I'm surprised that such a feature was taken away and not replaced with something similar or better. Edited June 20 by Cobus Prinsloo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 39 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said: Which version of Cakewalk or Sonar are we talking about? I'm surprised that such a feature was taken away and not replaced with something similar or better. I’ve had SONAR since X1, so I’m not sure when Session Drummer 3 turned up. But, for sure, it was included in Platinum, part of the Artist Instrument Collection. As far as I know, it was part of all available versions of SONAR, i.e. Artist, Studio, Producer and Platinum. It might also have been included in the Cakewalk 8.x and earlier incarnations, I don’t know, but for some reason it has never been part of CbB. Maybe BandLab simply didn’t purchase the IP rights to those products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Sasor Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 Session Drummer 3 is still included with Sonar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 33 minutes ago, Jonathan Sasor said: Session Drummer 3 is still included with Sonar. If that includes free Sonar, that would be a great solution for everyone missing a drum sampler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) Yes that was a great feature of Session Drummer. It’s it think the only drum vst that lets you use most formats of audio. I don’t have Next installed but for sure it had a multi sampler I think it is called the pad sampler. Funny Sonar doesn’t share the Next effects. Session drummer has come with every version of Sonar for a long time. It just didn’t come with Cakewalk. Edited June 21 by John Vere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobus Prinsloo Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 20 hours ago, Jonathan Sasor said: Session Drummer 3 is still included with Sonar. This is good news, thanks. I looked in my Sonar manual, found only 2-3 references to Session Drummer, but nothing on how to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said: This is good news, thanks. I looked in my Sonar manual, found only 2-3 references to Session Drummer, but nothing on how to use it. Does F1 bring up the Help File for Session Drummer on your PC? Edited June 21 by User 905133 added an image 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) You also have a number of tutorials on YouTube. Here’s a playlist featuring seven different videos, where the first five are made by Cakewalk. Sure, it’s about 14 years old, but except for the DAW being used is Cakewalk 8.5, nothing has changed in Session Drummer 3. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3VhS98XSi9n1G4UAsrSAxf2N6w21B7L Edited June 21 by Canopus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 @Canopus please correct the above to Sension Drummer 3, not Superior Drummer 3. If you click on the ... in the top right of your post you can edit your error. Superior Drummer 3 is a vastly Superior product made by Toontrack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 47 minutes ago, Wookiee said: @Canopus please correct the above to Sension Drummer 3, not Superior Drummer 3. If you click on the ... in the top right of your post you can edit your error. Superior Drummer 3 is a vastly Superior product made by Toontrack. Thanks, corrected. And, yes, I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 The old Cyclone that came with SONAR would also work (I forget which version). Pretty simple 16 pad sampler - no frills but it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 2 hours ago, Xoo said: The old Cyclone that came with SONAR would also work (I forget which version). Pretty simple 16 pad sampler - no frills but it works. Cyclone shipped with every version from Sonar 6 up to & including Platinum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobus Prinsloo Posted June 23 Author Share Posted June 23 Thank you, guys, for all your input! Yes, I have come across very nice tutorials on YouTube. Nothing else needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobus Prinsloo Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 On 6/20/2025 at 11:49 PM, Jonathan Sasor said: Session Drummer 3 is still included with Sonar. This is fantastic, especially the fact that it can be routed through the Step Sequencer! Request: Yes, the video tutorials are adequate, thanks, but I do believe that Session Drummer 3 should get more visibility in the manual as a significant component of the DAW, as I've scanned through most of it over the past months but didn't even know that it was available (like some of the other folks in this thread). Lastly, if SD 3 could be updated to include the ability to view and do some limited tweaking to the waveform of any loaded sample, i.e., trimming/cropping, as is the case with Sitala, this will be an invaluable feature. Thanks for the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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