Something always bothered me and now that we have a forum I’m taking the opportunity to ask all of you.
Is it normal that when I load an other snare than my main one (to do layering), I can’t access to its mics ? Like, I’d like to mute the bottom mic or the rim one, but no. Sometimes I have 0 microphone that shows up, sometimes only the bottom one, for example, or the top… It seems random, I didn’t find any way to do it manually.
Of course, I’m not talking about the ambience microphones but all that concern the direct source.
Here, you can see that I deployed all the “hidden” microphones but for the second snare, the Tama Tempesta, I don’t have any microphone channels.
There was a bug reported a while back about missing mic channels but I think it was only on certain snare from certain expansion kits. I’m guessing you’re using the latest build v 3.4.2.4?
I didn’t see anything about a fix for that bug in the release notes but I think @BFD_Drew knows about it.
I’ve done some more looking into this tonight and it I think the problem seems to be the mixer not updating when you change snares.
I started by loading just a snare from the Big Orchestral & Marching Band, the snares in that expansion only have top, bottom and direct mic channels I went through loading a number of snares with just 3 mic channels until I got to one of the Japanese Taiko Percussion snares, they have one bottom mic, and 3 top mic channels along with the direct mic channel.
So far all is as it should be but when I reloaded one of the B.O.M.B snares I find I now have 4 mic channels, 3 top mic, one direct mic and no bottom mic, previously I had one bottom, one top and one direct mic.
I get the same behavior with kicks and snares, every expansion. Before the recent updates I’d get the last of the channels, so snare bottom or kick sub etc, now I get none at all, click the arrow to expand the mics and nothing pops up. Again for both kick2-5 and snare2-5.
Would you mind writing a bug report so we can investigate this? I have just created a Bug Report section for this, so just use the guidelines and include as much detail as possible.
I’ve had this problem too. It’s also when you add a second kick drum as well. I have kits with 2 snares and saved them with different [Snare Top] Mono-Channel 3, [Snare Bottom] Mono channel 4) outputs. When I change the Snare 2 channel back to master, it doesn’t sound correct. I need access to those other mic channels.
