Session Drummer 3 TD-25

Hi,
I have a lowly TD-4, that's why I use it only as a controller to trigger sounds in Addictive Drums 2.  Doesn't the TD-25 have better sounds than Session Drummer?

Addictive Drums is in an entire different league than Session Drummer.  Yes, you can customize just about everything. More importantly though, if you're playing Vdrums, it can respond amazingly to your playing if you set it up right. It comes free with Platinum, so you might want to look into the cost difference between getting AD2 by itself or just upgrading Sonar. The Sonar version comes with some Ad Packs included already.

It will require setting up the brain of the drum kit to trigger the appropriate MIDI notes or use a drum map in SONAR to translate what the TD-25 sends to what Session Drummer expects for those instruments. The note mapping for Session Drummer is at the end of the help file. Looking at the map you may notice the cymbals are already there.
 
But lets say they were not. Would it matter? Not really. Session Drummer will play what ever samples are defined in the sfz files loaded at the time. It it only by convention note 35 plays kick samples. Note 35 could just as easily be set up to trigger a dog bark, police whistle, cymbal or all three depending velocity.

chuckebaby
 Ping..AD2 is superior to session drummer 3.
but session drummer 3 you can also drag and drop samples on to the kit pieces, this is one of the things I like about it. if you want to read up on SFZ files you can even customize and create your own kits using your own samples.

Yeah, but as a drummer, when it comes to playability and response to your playing (assuming one is trying to make the drums have natural sounding dynamics) they're night and day. To me, that is what makes the difference between a drum track that has good sounds, and one that sounds like a real drumset is being played.

Thanks chuckebaby, it looks like I have to go into the mixer section of S3, and set the pads as cymbals to trigger from the TD-25. I haven't looked if I need to map the TD-25, but I have the TD-25 selected as a  midi input in the properties section. Very cool... Hopefully when I get home this is all I'll have to do.