I have the AD2 upgrade plus funk kit before Sonar Platinum was launched. From Sonar Platinum I got Fairfax one, Jazz brush and Percussion. I think that is a s diverse as it gets. My favourite is Funk and Fairfax one. 

I wish they would do realistic drumming Paks...

1) Session drummer.
2) Drummer with no drum kit.
3) Part time drummer.
4) Drummer can't turn up double booked had to play at festival.
5) Drummer wants to play genisis but is with funk band.
6) Drummer who plays in six bands who owns a drum kit.
7) Coked up drummer.
8) Drummer stole lead singers girlfriend

Etc.

PS love drummers!

Maybe they should collaborate with Cake and have a kit that Loads up Sonar when I'm not in and installs a drum kit to replicate the drummer turning up early to set up, so it's ready to go when I walk in through the door.
 
We need some sounds of sticks breaking too. And the sound of sticks hitting the kit and floor randomly when twirling a stick flies out of the hand.

Went with Black Velvet, Studio Rock and Funk kits.
Black Velvet sounds pretty good.

It was tough choosing from so many really good kits. I went with: Black Velvet, Studio Pop, Fairfax Vol2 (current favorite).
 
I plan to get others. They have several that I can make good use of for songwriting. The Indie kits were tempting. I would like to have something similar to ezdrummer's Nashville or something that supported country or contemporary christian to have in the tool box.

I got Fairfax 1 when I upgraded to AD2, so this time I added Session Percussion, Jazz Brushes, and Vintage Dry.  I'd added the Dry Beats and Ballad Grooves midipaks during the half off sale. Since the perc and brushes midi were "required", I got the Reggae, too. I don't recall how/why I have the Pearl Masterworks piccolo snare, but I added the Bongoes, Timbau and Sangban. RE the Sangban, I thought I selected the Djembe, so I was disappointed by that. I can't imagine using it, but who knows!?!
    I have a couple more in mind, for when they go on sale, but haven't got to mess with any of these, yet, so some exploring is in order!
Michael
 
ps  Like Afrodrum, I thought the songs midipaks would be good to get, and the Latin/Afro one, too.
Anyone feel like Fairfax Vol2 is a really good expansion on Vol 1?      I love Vol 1., but wanted to cover more bases, first.

I got the Metal and Rock packs and midi. I may have to go get the Blue Velvet pack. There's really good sounds in that one.

@ musicroom    Check out Platinum Samples Groove (midi) libraries. They have a video of how they show up in AD2
 
https://www.platinumsamples.com/index.php
 
At the bottom of the Real Country Groove library page, they scroll through the midi in AD2. It certainly seems easy.
http://www.platinumsamples.com/ps/RealCountry.php
 
Michael

pentimentosound
@ musicroom    Check out Platinum Samples Groove (midi) libraries. They have a video of how they show up in AD2
 
https://www.platinumsamples.com/index.php
 
Michael

 
Will do - thanks!

A little bit of a tangent, I use Finale 2014 a lot.  It is really limited in the VSTs it can use.  I think it only can do 32-bit VSTs.  Just for fun, within Finale I scanned for VSTs after installing AD, and it found AD2.  That works great.  At the moment, I have set the "?" to General MIDI map so that all my existing parts in Finale will play reasonably.  But there are many more techniques available in the other maps.  This is definitely something I can use under Finale (and under Platinum too of course).  It is a big improvement over the minimal "standard" kits that are available in Garritan.  Even with my goofy drum patterns (not trying to be totally realistic), the drums actually sound pretty good.