Hey folks.
 
I have been happily using Toontrax Superior Drummer in Sonar for the last few years, but for my current project I need a vst drum sampler that allows me to load my own kick and snare samples and assign them velocity ranges. Does anyone have a recommendation?
 
Thanks!

I'm pretty sure Battery allows you to use your own samples, although I have never tried it myself...

I have used an earlier version of Battery, and that could import your own samples into it.

If you're up for tweaking even Sonars Session Drummer 3 can use your own samples.

You can use Session Drummer and it is pretty simple to set it up so that each drum sound has multiple sample but you will need to look at the sfz format which is just a file that tell Session Drummer what to play at different velocities etc. 
 
Here's an old article by Craig that talks about Session Drummer 2 but the section on sfz is still true:
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr07/articles/sonarworkshop_0407.htm
 
You can also use Battery as well and that has an easy UI to help set up the sounds.
 
How much editing of the drum sounds will you need to do? 
 
 

If you want something that is both an acoustic drum VST and that can also easily load your own samples with multiple velocity layers then the best choice by a long way would be BFD3 if you have the money.
 
If however you only want to load your own samples into some kind of sample player then battery would be cheaper, also in the same price range as battery is fxpansions geist which is a full blown sampler.
 
Doesn't cakewalks "Cyclone" do that too or is it just a, "one hit wonder"?
 
 
Steve

Battery is probably the easiest solution, but Session Drummer can do that, and really, any sampler will do.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone - much appreciated!
 
I will download some demos and give them a try.

There's a 'limited' demo of BDF3 but you may find that importing samples is either not in the demo or more likely limited to a few velocity layers but as I said, if you're looking for something that does what superior does and much more with better kits then BFD3 is well worth a look at.
 
I would post a link but the forum filter keeps throttling them and I'm sure you know how to use google
 
 
Steve

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There's a 'limited' demo of BDF3 but you may find that importing samples is either not in the demo or more likely limited to a few velocity layers but as I said, if you're looking for something that does what superior does and much more with better kits then BFD3 is well worth a look at.
 
I would post a link but the forum filter keeps throttling them and I'm sure you know how to use google
 
 
Steve

Thanks Steve. I used BFD  prior to switching to superior drummer. My only reason for switching was that I had fairly frequent stability issues when rendering tracks, which I don't have with superior drummer. That is quite some time, 2 computers and several versions ago though, so I should give it another try.
You haven't had any issues with it?
 
Bruce.