Glyn Barnes

june61944
Where's the cheapest place to get the upgrade to SD3 from SD2?

Plugin Alliance was the best price I found in the UK for the download. £147 including VAT and earned about £10 in loyalty points.

I think that's supposed to be Plugin Boutique...

Thanks, Larry.  I can say quite definitively now that its not at Plugin Alliance, although I am now an expert in their catalog.  Thanks for the heads-up anyway, Glyn.  I seem to remember the "in the cart price" being closer to $167 USD at Plugin Boutique so I'm going to wait until they take down the Toontrack "get-a-free-MIDI pack with SD3" deal to see if it goes back down.

cclarry2

Glyn Barnes

june61944
Where's the cheapest place to get the upgrade to SD3 from SD2?

Plugin Alliance was the best price I found in the UK for the download. £147 including VAT and earned about £10 in loyalty points.

I think that's supposed to be Plugin Boutique...

Doh! I will edit the OP

Sidroe
You can still use the surround mics in just a stereo mix. You don't get the full fx but it does give you a good distance ambience to add to your arsenal. Great for John Bonham type room drums.

I've long wondered how they'd sound in a stereo mix. Your comment has prompted me to finally grab those surround files. Downloader says only 3.5 hours to go...

 
Here is a few links for Superior Drummer3
 
https://www.timespace.com/products/toontrack-superior-drummer-3?variant=49885032394
https://www.bestservice.com/search.html

TheMaartian

bitflipper
And you still have to make a backup. That's the real advantage to buying it on SSD, having an instant backup.
 
I elected not to do that, because I was afraid I'd probably just lose the SSD. Instead, I bought a 3TB external USB drive that can hold all my backups in one place. Better odds of remembering where I last put that device.

I tend to misplace things, as well. I try to have "one place for everything...and everything in its place." Doesn't always work.
 
The only really necessary rule?
 
Don't store ANYTHING important in your back pocket. 

I would only add, if you do store it in your back pocket make sure to back it up and put a copy in your front pocket too.

The library that comes with SD3 is (IMO) superior to that of SD2.
With SD2, the engineer ***loved*** the "click" on the mids (~2.2k) of the kick drums.  
With SD3, George Massenburg did a great job with the recording/engineering.  Much more balanced sound...
 
As far as where to put the library:

• M.2 Ultra (NVMe) SSD is going to be the fastest as far as load time (~3400MB/Sec on Reads)
• SATA SSD is still good (~540MB/Sec on Reads)
• HD is going to feel slow (~200MB/Sec on Reads)
• Pair of SATA SSDs in RAID-0 is in-between M.2 Ultra and single SATA SSD (~1000MB/Sec)

SATA SSD in external USB-3 or USB-3.1 enclosure should yield the full speed of the SSD (or close).
USB-3 tops out ~550MB/Sec
 

I run SD3 from a conventional spinner, and yup, it's slow. I have a project at the moment that has SD3, Trilian, 12 Kontakt instances and 4 Omnispheres. I just go make coffee while it's loading.

bitflipper
I run SD3 from a conventional spinner, and yup, it's slow. I have a project at the moment that has SD3, Trilian, 12 Kontakt instances and 4 Omnispheres. I just go make coffee while it's loading.

Bit "the Thinker" flipper making coffee while waiting for his project to load...