Cobus Prinsloo Posted Thursday at 10:57 AM Share Posted Thursday at 10:57 AM 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 Thursday at 11:40 AM Share Posted Thursday at 11:40 AM Normally you would use a drum sampler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted Thursday at 02:18 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:18 PM 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 Thursday at 03:03 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:03 PM (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 Thursday at 03:13 PM by Canopus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted Thursday at 04:55 PM Share Posted Thursday at 04:55 PM 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 Thursday at 05:15 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:15 PM 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 Friday at 11:41 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 11:41 AM (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 Friday at 11:42 AM by Cobus Prinsloo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted Friday at 12:22 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:22 PM 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 Friday at 01:49 PM Share Posted Friday at 01:49 PM Session Drummer 3 is still included with Sonar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted Friday at 02:29 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:29 PM 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 yesterday at 12:51 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:51 AM (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 yesterday at 01:17 AM by John Vere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobus Prinsloo Posted yesterday at 10:12 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 10:12 AM 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 yesterday at 10:37 AM Share Posted yesterday at 10:37 AM (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 yesterday at 10:41 AM by User 905133 added an image 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted yesterday at 11:02 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:02 AM (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 23 hours ago by Canopus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago @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 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 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 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 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 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 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...
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