bapu


If this is a bragfest I own

Superior and all SDXs
EZDrummer and EZXs
BFD2 (& Eco too)
OWD & Platinum Samples Neal Peart
Komplete 8 Ultimate - Which includes all Abbey Road Drums and Battery
Addictive and all the AD Paks
Slate 4.0 Platinum
Bluenoise Plugins Metal 1
Jamstix 3
Voxengo AccuDrums
Jet City (by Jim Roseberry)
Drumagog (with Invictus Metal Expansion Packs 1 - 5)
Slate Trigger

They all have their place.

You win. That's heaps more than me. Makes me feel my collection is modest at best. Lol

mudgel
Not sure if you know but Joe Baressi's Evil Drums is available as an SDX for Superior Drummer. Awesome. They promised more kits but haven't seen them released yet. 

I forgot mention I have those too.

You might check http://www.drumasonic.com/.  Good basic kit with some good editing options.
 
I've recently coupled this with midi loops from Groove Monkee. 
 
Great combo for me.
 
Jon

I love Steven Slate Drums 4.0 Platinum, I was using SD2 but SSD4 is just ready to go, with very little processing it sounds killer!

I would use SD3 for quick and dirty MIDI recording (from V-drums). It does the trick, but then I move onto BFD2 (and various expansions) when I begin to flesh out my tracks. BTW, isn't Battery a bit dated by now?

Bristol_Jonesey


Learning BFD is like learning bridge - you can take it as far as YOU want.

To the bridge captain, to the bridge.

I love the fact the all the kit pieces are not only of pristine quality, but none have had any effects added to them - they are totally raw, 

Another thing I've always liked about BFD2 (and it may seem like a small thing) is that all the kits are ones that can be found in the real world. The orange county, the black oyster kit and all the others can be found in most good drum stores. In the real world there is no such thing as the drum kit from hell or the pop and rock kit, or the motown kit or the bonzo kit. 
Of course none of this would matter if they sounded like crap versions of the real thing but they don't so it's ok. A small thing I know but one that I like none the less.

Steve

mudgel

Rain


Superior Drummer - it has the perfect balance of flexibility and sound quality, it offers impeccable performance, and imho, the most elegant and refined GUI of them all. Plus libraries are available in all genres.

And one thing that's totally killer for me is the ability to bounce/render individual instruments from w/in Superior Drummer at a click of a button - no need to even worry about routing tracks.

OTOH, if I trust the demos, the most stunning library I've heard was Joe Baressi's Evil Drums for BFD. 

I do have BFD Eco - which I don't bother to use due to its restricted features - and Kontakt w/ Studio Drummer (never use this one either) and Abbey Road, which sounds great. I've considered upgrading BFD to full, but in all honesty, I love SD too much and the GUI's just was easier to navigate and cleaner for my taste. Maybe someday, between two projects...

As a songwriting tool, EZ Drummer does it for me. Plus it's easy to just replace it w/ Superior later in the session.

Not sure if you know but Joe Baressi's Evil Drums is available as an SDX for Superior Drummer. Awesome. They promised more kits but haven't seen them released yet.

REALLY?!!!
WANT!

Ok just found them. 
$200.
Still WANT but, uh, maybe later...

twaddle
In the real world there is no such thing as the drum kit from hell or the pop and rock kit, or the motown kit or the bonzo kit.  

{pedantic on}
There may not be a "real" kit in your local Guitar Center, but they are real samples, so for the purposes of the home enthusiast there once was a real kit just like that, and now they own it too.
{pedantic off}





Jest yankin' yer chain Steve/twaddle.


See, I get it. BFD2 is the cats meow for you. But for many, the other stuff is the cats meow.

See, I get it. BFD2 is the cats meow for you. But for many, the other stuff is the cats meow.

No ****?? 

Steve