Having spent a few days grappling with some of its more enigmatic workings, I can see why a demand arose for the simpler EZ Drummer! That said, once you've figured it out, SD3 allows you to customise your setups to a far greater degree than most Kontakt libraries, which nowadays are increasingly likely to be locked for editing.Īn immediate difference with Kontakt is there's no on-screen keyboard: instead, you click on an instrument's picture on the GUI to hear it.
Tim Ouderits doing what he does best.The Superior Drummer 3 interface is a sophisticated affair jam-packed with features and settings. You can use the Grooves page to sequence, merge and edit the library's MIDI patterns. While you can use SD3's Song Track and Grid Editor to sequence, merge and edit pattern data (including isolating individual instrument components), some composers may prefer to export the patterns as MIDI files and mess with them inside their DAW. Volume I features a good selection of rousing, militaristic bass drum, snare and taiko patterns (a de rigueur requirement for today's cinematic media composers), while the nimble small-percussion performances in Volume II contain more song-friendly material, including an absolutely classic congas groove.ĭue to the skilful programming and large number of velocity layers, the patterns sound amazingly lifelike and dynamic: you'd never know that (for example) a snare crescendo roll isn't a real-life performance, so if you like their musical effect, you can insert these MIDI grooves straight into your arrangement. OP SDX's MIDI library contains a complete set of patterns for each volume in various styles, featuring rolls, crescendos and diminuendos as well as grooves and snare rudiments.
A major selling point of Toontrack's instruments is the inclusion of pre-programmed MIDI performances.
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