EDITED - NI Studio Drummer, 50% Off

Any feedback from someone using NI Studio Drummer?

I'm betting not very many folks are upgrading to Kontakt5 or Komplete8 and NI is just trying to figure out ways to push you into it.  I ain't bitin yet.

Funny you mention that - I recently checked Addictive Drums for the first time. For some reason I'd always passed over it. Man, I don't know if it's just the demos, but w/ a similar deal as the one I had for EZ Drummer, I'm not sure I'd have picked EZ over AD. 

You really like SSD4 better than AD? I have SSD EX 3 but I just never use it - I always end up using EZ Drummer. 

I have NI Studio Drummer and have never used it. This is not a slam on it just a reflection of too many drum packages and I have some that are really good already.

I have the Slate 3.5 platinum stuff in Kontakt. Great sounding drums but I hate Kontakt and want to upgrade to SSD 4. My take on it is that if you are a drummer playing midi drums (VDrums etc) then it is great but if you are someone like me that needs to use midi grooves in the context of a DAW then it still has real growing pains.

I have till the end of the month to figure out if I want to spend the cash.

Ken

 Thanks for the heads up Rain. I think I mentioned this earlier, but I have had a less than stellar past with NI. I was willing to let bygones be bygones though and a few events fell into place that had me upgrading to Kontakt 5. I have loved K5 and so the studio drummer is a viable upgrade path for me who-

1. Did not yet have a dedicated  go to drum package yet. I have a few I'm checking out but had made no serious decisions as of yet.
2. Am no drummer and would like a program that is straight forward.Having too many choices is counter productive for me.

3.Liked the idea of having a program that was written with Kontakt 5 in mind and takes advantage of some of its scripting capabilities.

4.Wanted a native and functional 64 bit program.

 I did a little research on studio drummer and have read posts that are "supposedly" by drummers who regularly use controllers
to trigger drums and own the top most three or four programs out there and a few of THEM say that they prefer Studio Drummer over even SSD and Superior drummer. BFD still gets high ratings among those who are into infinite tweaking and I still might end up upgrading from my eco version of BFD. That program is nothing to take lightly either.

  I'm sure that in the future there will be more sounds/packs offered for the NI Studio Drummer.It has been mentioned that the demo is over compressed and comes off a little underwelming, but those who have loaded and used the program seem to like it, so at this price I'm jumping in and I'll let you know how it all comes out.

 

Thanks for the clarification, Dean.

You are getting a great product with Studio Drummer. I just purchased Komplete 8 and I love the sounds from SD and Abbey Road drums.

The only draw back is the Kontact factor. You end up running a plug within a plug. There is LOTS of tweaking depth in Studio Drummer; far more than I'm ready to deal with right now but I know that I can grow into the more complex aspects with time.

Session Drummer is OK but after using a better program I can see the shortcomings. If this deal was available last week I would have just gone for the drums instead of the full Komplete package.