Toontrack superior drummer reviews full#

Things may have changed but, as I recall from a few years back, the TT forums were pretty quiet.Compared to a general forum like here, of course it is quiet. Highly recommend you explore it, your already great natural sounding hits will sound infinitely more natural, particularly snare rides and f/toms. Say you load a very dynamic snare with many different hard and several soft variations of a center or mid hit, increasing the amount of different velocity layers possible means your Tracker load will be even more precise/nuanced when converted to midi and then back to audio This feature enhances the function of the kit itself you have loaded up and that you are triggering via Tracker. Utilising this major asset of SD3 enables you to maximise your experience both as a drum production tool and in Tracker. The Humanize function is not limited to only affecting playback on a grid or to loops. BF3 was sufficient, but SD3 is brilliant. This is the first time I've felt that way about a drum library.

Toontrack superior drummer reviews full#

I paid full price for sd3 and I'm very happy with the value. The included effects are surprisingly excellent. Other: Tracker is amazing, the sound is amazing. I don't use the humanize functions since I don't program on a grid. Stereo overheads: Skewed in some libraries still. They are awesome and I rarely feel the need to multi out anymore. The features that blew me away are the new plugins in the mixer. I just set SD3 to have infinite layer limits and I have never noticed an issue with it sounding bad or machine gunish. I have done this with the ride cymbal before so that I could EQ it differently. I will say that you can split any instrument out of any channel in SD3 and pan it however you like. Although I never had a problem with the SD2 library so ymmv. I do know that George Massenburg recorded it and there is a video of him floating around on youtube talking about how important the center image in the overheads is. there are these bars that you move around to find the tempo (much like Ableton from what I remember).Īs far as the overheads.

Ive only had to use it 3 or 4 times but it worked well and was quick replacing (supplementing) kick, snare, and toms for my session. Thanks in advance.Yes! still using it daily here. Other: Any features that have blown you away or come up short of your expectations? Humanize: Have the humanize functions changed from SD2 or are they essentially the same? Tempo Mapping: If I have audio drum tracks that were not recorded to a click, can SD3 generate a tempo map that can be exported to my DAW? Stereo overheads: Is the snare located in the center of the stereo image or skewed to one side as in SD 2? Tracker: Is it as good as it looks? (I'm assuming that, if you're attempting to enhance a real drum kit, it's still necessary to manually check each hit for phase coherency.) Now that everyone has had a chance to give it a thorough going over, I have a couple specific questions, though I'm open to general feedback, too. However, having it right there as part of the SD3 UI is handy. I have other solutions that also work well, and I can't say that SD3's works better than those or is any easier to use. The one exception is that I have used the drum replacement feature that was new in version 3, and it has worked wonderfully. Just old-school drum programming coupled with great samples and deep tonal flexibility. I have no interest in sequencing within the instrument, nor in canned MIDI patterns.

It meets - and greatly exceeds - my needs. In that capacity the product certainly doesn't disappoint.

I upgraded last year just for the additional kits and instruments, in particular the (excellent) brush kit. Like all its predecessors, SD3 for me is just another virtual instrument, albeit with fancy features I may never use. I still use drum VIs much the same way today: as sampled instruments (as opposed to compositional aids).

Toontrack has supplied my go-to drum instruments since Drumkit From Hell some 14 years ago.