New NI Studio Drummer

I listened to the demos, and, like most NI demos, they sound great.

They're a bit late to the game, though, and you have to wonder if the marketplace is really screaming for yet another drum sampler.

NI already has Abbey Road, Battery and Maschine so I find it odd they are coming out with yet another one.

I guess they are out to get a portion of the Toontrack / Additive market share since that is what this seems to be most similar to, but I always thought what was what Abbey Road was doing?

yawn.  another drum sampler.

Can you have too many drums??

PS:  Hey Strike, ol pal.  How's yor momma and them?  Great ta see ya.

strikinglyhandsome1


Cheers yorolpal (and Mesh on the other thread)

I'm still wearing the long sleeved jacket with fashionable back buckles.

How's X1 treating you? I've not made the move.

That's totally an open ended question......but, I like it!!

Cheers windsurfer.

How's the plug-in buying and selling going?
I've stopped buying for a while - well apart from the odd no-brainer.
I think I've got all my sounds covered - famous last words.

I'd love to up my PC specs - maybe next year.

I noticed you got Geist. Tempting as I really like Guru.

Actually I've been slimming down a bit!

Lately I've sold my AAS Total bundle (never really used it)
Sold Alchemy and my expansion packs (never really used it, or had time to dig into it)
Sold Izotope Alloy and Nectar - I've gotten away from presets and don't really use them anymore

Currently I've been using the Fabfilter products (amazing!)
Geist is one of the best purchases I've made recently! It is fast and the quality of what you can accomplish is awesome, unless I'm looking to do realistic acoustic drums I'm using Geist.. definitely worthwhile! 
I also got DCAM synthsquad, another really good purchase! 

So I didn't really spend any money just traded in a bunch of products and replaced them with fewer better products haha.

I'm getting married in October so I have to be a little more conscientious about my spending, but it's good in a way because I make decisions more on what I need and less on what I would like or think would be cool (and not really use). 

After the whole Kore 2 fiasco with NI I've been thinking about alternatives and hardware so in terms of what I have my eyes on next, I'd like to get a DSI Mopho keyboard/Tetra, 
I'd really like to get EWQL Complete composers edition (and stop spending $ on NI for a while)
and the other thing I'd like to grab is BFD 2, as I'm really impressed with FXpansion lately.

So that's my plan for the next little while, (some of that I'm going to ask for my bday & Christmas)

Good to see you back on the forums! (hopefully not to the detriment of your musical productivity :) )

Same here, he said, just walking out of IK's Custom Shop w/a bunch of cabs. ;) I'm almost done. 

I've been evaluating CSR as I remember liking it a lot, and this was something I had my eyes on for a while, but it seems like it didn't really evolve w/ time. It's still good but I tested it against my Valhalla reverb which cost me $50, and even w/ the current promo, I can't hear anything in CSR that really justifies me spending $170 on another reverb, even if it'd also get me yet another bunch of freebies. 

I guess I'll be glad to just add a stompbox or a cabinet to my rig every now and then for a while.

windsurfer25x


Actually I've been slimming down a bit!

Lately I've sold my AAS Total bundle (never really used it)
Sold Alchemy and my expansion packs (never really used it, or had time to dig into it)
Sold Izotope Alloy and Nectar - I've gotten away from presets and don't really use them anymore

Currently I've been using the Fabfilter products (amazing!)
Geist is one of the best purchases I've made recently! It is fast and the quality of what you can accomplish is awesome, unless I'm looking to do realistic acoustic drums I'm using Geist.. definitely worthwhile! 
I also got DCAM synthsquad, another really good purchase! 

So I didn't really spend any money just traded in a bunch of products and replaced them with fewer better products haha.

I'm getting married in October so I have to be a little more conscientious about my spending, but it's good in a way because I make decisions more on what I need and less on what I would like or think would be cool (and not really use). 

After the whole Kore 2 fiasco with NI I've been thinking about alternatives and hardware so in terms of what I have my eyes on next, I'd like to get a DSI Mopho keyboard/Tetra, 
I'd really like to get EWQL Complete composers edition (and stop spending $ on NI for a while)
and the other thing I'd like to grab is BFD 2, as I'm really impressed with FXpansion lately.

So that's my plan for the next little while, (some of that I'm going to ask for my bday & Christmas)

Good to see you back on the forums! (hopefully not to the detriment of your musical productivity :) )

 
 
  You have a great bunch of plugs there! My condolences on getting married..Just kiddin'.CONGRATS!
 
 I am a little afraid to ask what BFD stands for, my first guess could not have been right. My sentiments on NI are the same ones shared by some here about Waves. I had a bad experience,bad karma( I don't believe in it) but it had to be something similar. Aside from my bad experiences with NI the GUI was always hard for me to read... similar to Ableton in that regard. Are the German software engineers far sighted? or is this a covert attempt to make us here in the US blind?
 
 If you like NI don't listen to me. I am forever biased.

Can you have too many drums??

A rhetorical question, perhaps?
I figured you'd already have downloaded it by now.

codamedia


NI already has Abbey Road, Battery and Maschine so I find it odd they are coming out with yet another one.

I guess they are out to get a portion of the Toontrack / Additive market share since that is what this seems to be most similar to, but I always thought what was what Abbey Road was doing?

 
 
Personally,I thought that the Abbey Road Drums were crap - no real dynamics at all   
 
NI are getting ready to axe Battery,so the're warming us up to that one with Studio Drummer....Read the blurb for SD and then read between the lines...
 
Of course,there will be all sorts of add on packs and extra dooh dahs for SD along the way 
 
I like the way you can "mangle" the sound in Battery....It's a great program and I like the way it works...
 
There's probably a few good things about SD,but it's going to take something a little more serious than that to knock Superior Drummer 2 and the SDX's off my throne   
  
  
  
  

 

bitflipper


BTW, the new Studio Drummer library does not work with Kontakt 4. You have to upgrade to Kontakt 5 to use it. Now we know the real reason for this drum lib.

You could just run it in K5 Player. No need to upgrade to K5 full.

I personally can't trust NI any more or deal with their rubbish customer service, regardless of the quality of products (which I find have got far more buggy as time has gone on) .. so they don't get my money , which is I think the only thing they will understand. prime example being that new amp inside guitar rig.. sod that, I'll used the IK one which is modelled on the same amp WITHOUT the GR shell around it.

Drew, we'll see just how revolutionary these new MIDI features are. If they actually add value to the process of drum programming, I'll take it back.

Meanwhile, I'll concede the ignorance charge, since I don't know yet whether the new features are indeed great or mediocre. They might be really cool. Or not. I'm only going with the odds in predicting "not".

Does the player have all the functionality and tweakability of Kontakt full?  If so, great!