I created a new virtual instrument track, added the SD3 plugin, and Reaper immediately offered to set up all the different sub-tracks automatically for me. That allows us to apply different effects to each part of the drum kit (kick, snare, toms, hats, cymbals, room mics etc etc) just like you would if you’re recorded a physical kit. The key reason why I’m doing this in Reaper – and not LUNA – is because Superior Drummer 3 publishes its audio out to multiple tracks. That’s something to be aware of, if you’re using these products and you’re a bit tight on disk space. The older Superior Drummer 2 / EZ Drummer products seem to use an older installer, that isn’t aware of external drives. That’s how old SD3 is!) There were some updates for the SD3 drum library today, and the Toontrack installer installed those updates onto that external drive. (This was years ago, when laptops came with a lot less internal storage than they do today. One thing I really liked: when I bought SD3, I got the version that came with all the drum samples preloaded onto an external drive. I don’t plan on using it, but if I open any old projects where it was used, at least they should still work (fingers crossed). While I was at it, I also installed Superior Drummer 2. Restarting Reaper is a much quicker way to make sure it happens.) (I’m pretty sure there’s a way to force Reaper to rescan for plugins while it is open, but it’s getting a bit hard to find little things like this in Reaper these days. I needed to restart Reaper afterwards, so that it could detect the newly installed SD3 plugin. It’s a fair bit to download, but at least I already have the drum samples on an external hard drive. This is done via Toontrack’s Product Manager.
Step 1 was to get Superior Drummer 3 (SD3 for short) installed onto my M1 Mac.
Which Parts Of The Kit Should Be Routed Where?.This is partly a note to myself, and partly a tutorial, on how I setup Superior Drummer 3 and Reaper to work well together.
Why? Because I need to work on some midi drums, and LUNA doesn’t really support that yet. I’ve recently switched back from Universal Audio’s LUNA DAW to good old Reaper.
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