We all had to go through the growing pains of learning how to do stuff, ESPECIALLY when it didn't work the first, second, third or forth attempt. But why bother if you can actually play it.Īlso plenty of insight on for Reaper beyond 'our' own manual, well, Geoffrey's manual.ĪND FINALLY: expect to bash your head against the screen. Then that is a necessity for most of us who program MIDI info. Get the thing working in 'standalone' mode on your computer before incorporating it into Reaper.ĭo you have a midi keyboard to trigger your sounds? If no. If it has a standalone player - I thought Kontakt was old news, too. One thing Drum Leveler can’t do is fix a bad-sounding drum. Usually that's a separate process based upon the install of the VSTi. A Drum Replacer, Like Slate Trigger 2 Slate Trigger is one of the more effective and user-friendly drum replacers out there. I'd probably head over to their forums for those answers because it's not a Reaper VSTi and Reaper does not control how the program loads its own content. That is not a Reaper issue but one related to SSD. I can 'open' SSD in Reaper and see the GUI, but I dont see anyway to load in samples or presets.

Yeah I followed the instructions precisely. Mine is the 4th edition 15th printing, from May 1989 but it is still available from roland and may even be downloadable It isn't Rocket Surgery - have a read of the reaper manual about virtual instruments and MIDI and if that and the instructions tht came with SSD arent enough to get you started, I have a suggestion for a FREE and very helpful basic MIDI primer. Us giving you a do this do that do the other method of getting SSD up and running will not really help you if you don't have at least SOME idea of why you re doing the various steps. In order to get anywhere at all with drum romplers and the like, you DO need a certain minimum level of knowledge. By your own admission you know nothing about MIDI. You DID follow the instructions on the SSD site exactly to the letter on installing? This is crucial.ģ. was not aware that you needed Kontakt for this 'new' version of SSD4 since every other version comes with a player built by SS.Ģ. I have Reaper open, and can access the SSD plugin (but cant load any presets for some reason), and frankly I have no idea what to do here, havent even heard a single drum sample yet.ĭETAILED instructions for a COMPLETE MIDI noob would be much appreciated!ġ. I downloaded the Steven Slate Drums library, and the Kontakt Player. I dont know jack about MIDI, but figured for $20, I could figure it out as I go along.ugh big mistake. Someone here was kind of enough to post a link to a sale for Steven Slate's Essentials.

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