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If, like me, you hardly ever play sidestick and you find the sidestick sound quite jarring when you accidentally hit your rim the wrong way... Change it to a rim click sound! It sounds much more natural.
And with the Bank Switch option, it's easy to go back and forth if you so desire.

Assuming you're using Superior Drummer 3, the rim click sound is MIDI note 71 (B3). Sidestick is 37 (C#1).

Nice tip. I’ve gotta try this.

monospace wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:38 am

If, like me, you hardly ever play sidestick and you find the sidestick sound quite jarring when you accidentally hit your rim the wrong way... Change it to a rim click sound! It sounds much more natural.
And with the Bank Switch option, it's easy to go back and forth if you so desire.

Assuming you're using Superior Drummer 3, the rim click sound is MIDI note 71 (B3). Sidestick is 37 (C#1).

With my Alesis snare I had done that (on AD2) but still sounded weird so I built a separate trigger for rim click attached to the snare and set rim hits/SS to rimshot for now.

My main problem is that rim hits share the same articulation curve as the snare and since this snare has a nasty hotspot in the center I have to squish down the articulation so that I don't get annoying, slammed snare sounds just because I didn't keep the hit a couple inches off-center. This kind of kills the feel for rimshots since it can't be tuned to the force of the hit.

If you go to advanced mode, you can have separate velocity curves for head, rimshot, and side stick.

Rob wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:08 am

If you go to advanced mode, you can have separate velocity curves for head, rimshot, and side stick.

yes, start there, but if that’s not enough, you can crank the volume of the rim click way up inside SD3.