Positional sensing

[breakthewall]

Hi Rob,

I just received my brand new snare Roland PD-128-BC and I'm trying to set the positional sensing (it did not work neither my previous stock Alesis snare).

So I set the green rectangle bounds according to the red line but I don't hear any change in the sound although the red line is in the black part on the left.

Firmware 2.3.2.30 with SD3.

Thank you

[Rob]

It must be a setting in SD3 or eDRUMin. Can you post a screenshot of your settings in the eDRUMin control application for your snare?

[breakthewall]

Hi Rob,

this is he settings of my snare. It's a bit weird because with another snare in SD3, I could hear the difference of sound, can it depend of the snare chosen?

Screenshot 2025-03-08 at 09.46.38.png (326.3 KiB) Viewed 214 times

Another issue (I can open another thread but as you have the snapshot) is I have set the hotspot suppression and it works well but sometimes the "Amount" compensation does not operate and the hit is then very high.

Thank you,
Joan

[Rob]

Yes, not all snares in SD3 have positional sensing, although I think most do. As for the hotspot suppression, if you have the amount control set too high, the feature will not suppress a hit when it would otherwise be completely suppressed.

[breakthewall]

About hotspot suppresion, I tried several things and lowering down a bit the max line of the curve (on the right) seems to avoid sudden max velocity hits.

Concerning positional sensing, it turned that the difference I heard was due to low rimshots at the edge of the plate. I cannot ear the difference as in your video, it makes me want to...

Thank you

[Rob]

I purposely chose a snare that had a large sound variation, but that's not necessarily what you want.