I would wait until Superior2 comes out and then compare the reviews and listen to what people have to say about it. its not out yet. My friend got BFD2 and though the improvements are large, he still is somewhat unsatisfied with some of the basic samples used. I personally think Toontrack has always done better at capturing the better drum samples, but their GUI's were inferior. Their new stuff is a lot better though in terms of GUI and the sounds are pretty fantastic. I think you can't go wrong with either one. My money is on S2, but really, until they are both out and you hear productions done with them and critical reviews, you're just taking a chance.

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I have both BFD2 and Superior 2.0, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses, this being from the perspective of "right out of the box" before any major and detailed tweaking (which I haven't got around to doing yet and probably won't until I'm ready to mix my project down). BFD2's cymbals are fuller and richer sounding, S2's are a little tinny and small. BFD2's rolls on the toms are machine-gunny, S2's are smooth and realistic--no machine guns. I can get the snare to make a decent roll in BFD2 but can't for the life of me in S2. By "roll" I mean the "And now the winner is....drum roll, please..." type. It can't be done in S2--ridiculous. How rare is a freakin' drum roll? Toontrack suggested I manually MIDI it, but what a pain that is. So I did, and I still can't get a manually midi'd snare roll to sound realistic in S2, but in BFD2 it works pretty good.

Once I get time to really get in there and tweak stuff, I have hopes that I can get either program to do the job for me. So I'm glad I got both programs--some things seem easier and better in one of them, and others in the other. I would recommend either for good sounding drums. If I could somehow marry the cymbals and snare from BFD2 with the toms from S2, now that would be the ultimate drum kit!