

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.


I dont know what your level of experience is so, based on this being your first post, I am going to assume that you are relatively new to computer recording.ĭo make sure you download the free User Guide and also checkout the excellent free video tutorials, all of which are freely available in the Downloads link at the top of this page.I’ve recently switched back from Universal Audio’s LUNA DAW to good old Reaper.

I sincerely hope you are not trying to run SD3 using something like ASIO4ALL with an internal laptop card, because you will really struggle if you are. Just to be sure, did you also use the Toontrack Product Manager software as recommended to do the install?ĬDould you let us know the full spec of your computer, including cpu, ram, etc., and of course what version of the OS you are using, including 64bit or 32bit?Īnd we do need to know what you are using for an audio MIDI interface. My first thought is that your system may not be up to it if you are asttempting to load and run the whole thing. Several questions: Have you downloaded and installed the whole SD3 base kit including all the bleeds and surround files?
