Obviously I'm going to agree with Glyn regarding BFD3, (just ask Bapu
) but there do look to be some nice new features in SD3 although a few of the ones that people are getting excited about are features that BFD3 and even BFD2 had 10 years ago. Loading your own samples and a propper drum grid editor being a couple and also the number of included effects. Superior 2 had something like 5 (?) and has now upped it to 35 in SD3 BFD2 had 35 10 years ago and I think BFD3 has 37.
I do really like the "totally" rescalable interface and even better, the detachable windows, this was something I'd asked for in the BFD3 feature request and whilst having it, "horizontally" extendable is useful for the mixer, a detachable and fully expandable window would have been so much better for the drum grid editor especially.
The drum replacement feature, assuming it's works as simply and effortlessly as they claim (do they ever?) looks especially good but I wonder how many people actually use drum replacemet now?
For me it was something I tried when mixing old 8 & 16 track demos that our band had recorded years ago before the digital age and I wanted to remix them with a better drum sound.
I've never really used midi loops so tap to find, as good as it is, would never be a selling point for me as I prefer to create my own drum tracks to go with my own songs not the other way round.
Steve