Looking to buy Superior Drummer...with some advice first!

Hey Frostysnake,

I use Superior Drummer with my Roland TD-12 kit and it works very well.  I would expect it would work very well with the DR-880, but to be honest you probably won't use the DR-880 much once you hear the sounds and purchase some of the MIDI packs available for the Superior Drummer kits.

I don't use any of the sounds or midi patterns available with my Roland kit because the ones the you can get designed for Superior Drummer are that much better.

If you can get it at a good price, I say go for it.  You won't regret it.

Hope this helps,
Tom

Superior Drummer runs fine in SONAR. Depending on what else you load up 4GB of RAM might be a little tight. There are ways to conserve memory in SD but it might be a good idea to bump up your RAM if you find yourself a resource starved. I do not own it but I believe the Metal Foundry is one of the largest SD kits.

BTW, I doubt Toontrack has updated their install procedure. If you want to run the 64bit version of SD, it is only available as part of the 2.3.1 update download in your account. Makes install a little more difficult than necessary.

So did I. The other think about Toontrack is that they apparently do not send out notifications when they update the software.

I haven't gotten into TOOOOOO much yet, but if almost feels like I'm missing something here because just about everything you would do in SD2 you can do directly in Sonar.  In a way it feels like I pissed away money on the crossgrade.

Toontrack on the whole are one of the best plugin vendors out there.

I've never had any install issues and their support is second to none.

After years.of mucking around trying to write my own drum tracks Toontracks Midi packs have been a god send. 

I was so impressed by the sample quality that I have all the Superior sdx packs. Now that they have expanded their repertoire to the Ezmix and Ezkeys line of products they are my go to vendor when I cant record the real thing.

mudgel


Toontrack on the whole are one of the best plugin vendors out there.

I've never had any install issues and their support is second to none.

After years.of mucking around trying to write my own drum tracks Toontracks Midi packs have been a god send. 

I was so impressed by the sample quality that I have all the Superior sdx packs. Now that they have expanded their repertoire to the Ezmix and Ezkeys line of products they are my go to vendor when i cant fecord the feal thing

my next purchase will be Toontrack's superior drums.
i havent been fortunete enough to demo them but i have listend to them on you tube and my best friend uses them exclusively.
the samples are increadibly real.

Charlie...I have always see the 008 but did not think to just try it and see if it lines up with the 880...this kind of excites me...lol

Frostysnake


Charlie...I have always see the 008 but did not think to just try it and see if it lines up with the 880...this kind of excites me...lol

Yes, let us DR-880 owners know. :)

I wouldnt get EZ drummer if you can afford SD2. You dont need to sit and construct everything from the ground up to get good sounds, great presets are already included.

I highly recommend you goto at least 8 gigs of ram, if not more.

I had 8 and found it not enough. I use X2 with Superior Drummer + Metal Foundry and both Roots Expansions and made several custom kits. When you start creating custom layouts with multiple room mics, you can eat up ram awfully quick. A few of my superior kits is well over 2gigs of ram just by itself to load up.

I tend to run gigantic mixes with Superior running with Kontakt and several soft synths and large sample libraries, but Superior even by itself can get big.

Its well worth it by the way. I cant express how much more efficient I am now creating music instead of relying upon real drummers :). Its the best tool in terms of streamlining the creative process since gigasampler hit the scene 15 years ago.

How did you like The Classic EZ expansion?