I have Session Drummer 3 with Andy Johns and the Acoustic Expansion packs; EZ Drummer with the default kits (Pop/Rock and Cocktail) plus Nashville, Classic, and Vintage; Kontakt 5 which has some drum kits; Fab Four which has some drum kits; the Fantom synth built into my V-Studio; and my external synths (Tyros 2, JV-1080 with Bass/Drums card, and Kurzweil PC2R).
 
It is hard to imagine that the Abbey Road bundle wouldn't be worth it, but, listening to the demo, nothing really jumps out at me as way beyond what I have.
 
What say ye who have it?
 
 

YES!!!!! YESSSSS!!!!!

Seriously, I love them. There's so much more control over the individual elements in the kits, plus the new MIDI loop content. They were worth the price of me getting Komplete a few weeks back.

I am looking forward to try it out.
I just bought Komplete 9 Ultimate which includes it and much more. It has 6 or seven drum packages. Awesome stuff.

You don't have Superior Drummer 2? It my go to drums plug.

best,
joni

They can be a bit CPU intensive mainly owing to a lot of the kits having transient shapers available on each drum.

Thanks, guys.  I may order the bundle soon.

The good thing is that since they are Kontakt instruments, I don't have to worry about getting a new VST to work which can sometimes be a pain (dll in wrong place, Sonar finding 32 instead of 64 bit dll, libraries not found, etc.).

Yes quite CPU intensive if you use the onboard mixing. I find that if I turn all of that off and recreate the same FX chain as plugins (Transient Master, Solid EQ etc) it is much less of a strain. The onboard AR mixing seems to spike one core for me, whereas if I use separate plugs it's more evenly distributed. Don't know if it's the same on other people's systems. 

for fun i loaded an instance of ar60s drums (2.4gb) and one of ar60s drummer (1.6gb) into one instance of kontakt and turned on several fx in 60s drummer for each drum and each mic position and came up with some neat mickey hart kinda (pseudo-poly)  rhythms panned left and right.  the only real prob i ran into was attaching lfos and envelope followers to certain parts of the patches.  had convolution reverbs set up on several of the instrument fx as well.  really tried to overload the system but wound up with cpu usage hovering around 15%.  they're really great drums... ar60s early kit is 17,400 samples or so.  can't beat the detail.  while the abbey road "drummer" series takes less memory and uses less samples it still sounds great!  you can crossgrade to komplete 9 for 399 so i would highly recommend that too. 

I have 70s AR.... really sit nice in the mix for the early 70s vibe.. I guess that you get what you pay here with this product. They have become my GOTO drum kit.

JK

LOVE IT.

I have been using Superior Drummerfor the last 18 months or so. For reasons unknown I loaded up AR drums about ten days ago and have been very impressed with the detail. It also has a better 'vibe' for my intentions but that is very subjective.

Still researching the products but I could see them becoming my goto kits.

Regards