PS: In regards to the last few posts, being able to click on an exact time to paste drum hits you've copied is what I wanted to do. I'm not sure what the benefit is of having that inexactitude as you mentioned. Hmm... guess it'll always be a mystery.
This is what you get when you use a DAW that was chopped off at the knees in the middle of its evolution. Everybody develops their own preferred workflow and good software developers do their best to accommodate that. There are ways to drop / paste copied notes at an exact point in a sequence in SVP. There is the "exact" box that enebles you to specify where all the way down to a 480th. You can open the drum track in the Graphic Window where you can be as precise as you want. You can even have the track open in both the Matrix and Graphic windows simultaneously and click in whichever one you like.! Try that in Performer or whatever! As I said, given an ongoing business, they would have continued to tweak the operation as needed to respond to the user base comments.
Gary: Something I always ignored were the note names in Vision. Now I actually want to use them. The problem is that after typing the note names for drum samples into either the 'Default' patch area, or into the normal specific patch area in the Names window, I only get three "..." when I click into the patch names list in the pulse edit window. When it knows I typed something into that particular note name number, it shows three ... but otherwise it's blank. But funnily, the name shows up properly after selecting three ... like it should. I've fooled with this for an hour and it's still giving me crap.
It's not giving you crap - you need to dig into the process - you're going at it wrong. You need to create and then
subscribe to a Notes Names Document. This is either created from scratch or pulled from (subscribed to) Galaxy. Note names are different from Patch Names. They can be altered at will. You're using a D4. It came with the drum sounds arranged in an arbitrary way decided by a long-lost soul at Roland. Many units stay that way forever, but many get changed over time - especially if the triggers are being used. Folks rearrange them to their liking so they're NOT set in stone. So, you create a Note Names Document. You can make one covering the basic drum sounds from scratch easily (unless you just have to have ALL of the sounds across the entire 4 or 5 octaves listed). Note however, they change if you change the patch. the drums are basically the same (mostly) but they need different names just like different synth patches would.
The best way to do all of this is to use Galaxy. Then you can just have your D4 dump all of that into a Galaxy Patch bundle, have SVP subscribe to it and it's all good. You WILL have to create some Note Names Docs yourself, 'cause they don't exist for the reasons described above.
This is waay more than I can instruct you to do in a post. Welcome to the learning curve. This is the basic path:
Windows > Names
Click: D4 / Patch Name Doc column
Nothing there? You'll have to make one
Got it? Open Patch Name window… click Notes column next to active patch - that opens Note Names window
Scroll to note, type in drum name. Repeat over as many notes as needed.
Store docs in Opcode folder.
In patch name window, next to D4, subscribe to Names doc you created.
Wasn't that easy? If/when you get that far, holler back and I'll give you a tip how to make them all pop up in a new sequence.