Toontrack Solo

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ToontrackSolo is a mixer program that can host toontrack samplers. It is a standalone program which can help the musicians to mix with other instruments for live performances or otherwise.

The combination of Toontrack Solo, EZplayer Pro and EZdrummer or Superior Drummer allows the shaping of new MIDI grooves within the EZplayer pro arranger which can later be exported to any sequencer thus makes it an independent workstation. The factory presets of the program allow you to optimize the response from the controller. Then you can route the sampler output to a hardware mixer for sonic control. It supports ASIO and CoreAudio/CoreMIDI devices. The 16 audio outputs can be routed to a conventional mixer for processing i.e. it can be optimized for the real time operation with a low latency. Each instance can be assigned a discrete MIDI channel and it supports the specialist MIDI controllers. You can assign the virtual instruments to the specific channels and it can be triggered as and when you wish. The user friendly interface makes it easy for you to work with your music for the mixing and shaping up of your music. A preview option is given so that you can preview your creation before going for it.

Toontrack solo is created as a tool for the performing musicians to have a preview of their on stand alone host.

Once you have done that, you can solo that track and do an audio mixdown export of your main stereo out. Make sure your locators are set to the area you wish to export. You can select in the audio mixdown dialogue to import that file back into your project.

1. Show desktop

2. Right click anywhere on your desktop, choose - "Personalize"

3. choose "Display"

4. choose "Change display settings"

5. Click "Identify" - choose the monitor that you wish to have the plugin on, under Resolution: lower the resolution until you are happy with the results. Try to keep the ratio of width to height the same to avoid distortion (for example, change 1920 x 1080 to 1280 x 720).

When I first loaded Superior Drummer in Toontrack Solo, I was surprised at how small the interface was on a 46" 1080p display. I was especially dismayed once I realized I couldn't maximize it. Considering that 4k resolution for monitors and mobile devices is becoming the norm, I would think that it would be nigh unusable.

Searching around, it appears as though some VST hosts and DAW software offer the ability to disable DPI awareness. What this means is that the operating system scales the application versus allowing said application to do any scaling. The drawback is the ugliness that comes about from stretching a low res interface to match up with the current resolution. I tried out Cantabile Lite(which is free apparently) with the DPI awareness option disabled and was pleased to see that the SD window occupied most of the screen and is now much easier to navigate.

@Toontrack - I am absolutely disappointed. I paid 250 euros and get a completely outdated software. The scalability has long been a required and necessary function of since her failed until now. The ease of use and clarity leaves something to be desired. So...

Never again ... Toontrack. l switch to BFD3 (They have done their homework with V3) and wich you good luck in the further disregard of your users ...

As we all know, higher and higher resolution displays on our laptops are becoming more and more common. Even full HD now seems quaint. My Dell XPS 15 has a resolution of 3200 x 1800 and that's not unusual anymore. The result is that some software can open in impossibly small windows - rendering it useless. In my experience all Toontrack software falls into this category.

There is ZERO danger in using this. It only gives windows a few instructions that tell it how to render. NO permanent changes are made to anything. If you don't like the results, simply delete the manifest file and all will return to original state.

Hope this helps,

Greg

...the manifest - workarounds dont work with *.dll - files. Superior Drummer is only a VST.dll

Best workaround (not a solution) for the moment is a second screen with 1024x768Px Resolution.

But...

- workaround for resolution

- workaround for e-drummer

- workaround for hh-settings

- workaround for inconsistent mapped packs

- workaround for default configs (save all in combined presets)

and im sure if i dive deeper in this BShit-ups, sry... i find many more ways to waste my time.

This is not a nice Programm - the workflow with it is a relapse into the 90s.

Jumping from workaround to workaround....

bad bad bad

Solution: Toontrack - build a modern version and give us registered pained users a FREE-UPDATE.

Nothing other brings us (I know I'm not the only one) back...

Ciao

Go to Tools->Options->General and then un-check the "Enable Hi-Resolution UI" box. I recall it saying it'll need to re-open the app but then after that, the Superior Drummer UI will appear in a much larger view.

Too many SD users in here, guarantees no response or a surly one at best. Early adopters are like morbid uncles at the wedding of the fresh faced young pretties on the cusp of first mortgages and credit card adoption.

I don't use Windows 10 personally so I don't know what issues you are having specifically with that OS. I use a Win7 machine and a 27" Touchscreen monitor at a 1920X1080 resolution (my GUI looks like the attached pic below). The GUI is plenty large on my system (and fingers). Again, please use the link in the FAQ to contact Toontrack Support directly.

See, that right there is the problem. I'd bet if anyone there were using current hardware (1440p monitors abound these days, you know, even 4K!), there would be a fix to this ridiculous problem. Not everyone is still using 1080p. It's 2016.

Just thought I'd try again on my new laptop - native resolution 3000x2000. Despite giving up on complicated internal tweaks since the 90s, I tried everything - .manifest files, disabling scaling, etc. Nothing works.

The (also to small screen) solution should be easy! SD sounds great and feel as E-Drum user mostly direct with less latency issues. BUT! Some other drum VST manufactures are in the 3th generation with a highly recommended stand alone version. I'm waiting since years for a timely 3th SD generation from Toontrack. Please no more those rudimentary Toontrack solo host for this application! Dear Toontrack team do you sleeping? Please next time no more exclusivity SDX expansion packs each month. We need immediately the next SD generation and not more and more expansion packs! Please do your job and make SD go for modern producing and modern E-Drum using like touchscreen handling and so on. Thank you very much with best regards

So, this was the state of play at post #2 in January 2012. Four years on (enough time to organise another Olympics / World Cup etc, and - what - about half the time it took NASA to develop the Apollo programme and get Armstrong & Aldrin on the moon!) are there any developments? It seems such a basic element and I'm amazed it's missing.

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