Stereo overheads: Is the snare located in the center of the stereo image or skewed to one side as in SD 2? Tracker: Is it as good as it looks? (I'm assuming that, if you're attempting to enhance a real drum kit, it's still necessary to manually check each hit for phase coherency.) Now that everyone has had a chance to give it a thorough going over, I have a couple specific questions, though I'm open to general feedback, too. However, having it right there as part of the SD3 UI is handy. I have other solutions that also work well, and I can't say that SD3's works better than those or is any easier to use. The one exception is that I have used the drum replacement feature that was new in version 3, and it has worked wonderfully. Just old-school drum programming coupled with great samples and deep tonal flexibility. I have no interest in sequencing within the instrument, nor in canned MIDI patterns. It meets - and greatly exceeds - my needs.
In that capacity the product certainly doesn't disappoint. I upgraded last year just for the additional kits and instruments, in particular the (excellent) brush kit. Like all its predecessors, SD3 for me is just another virtual instrument, albeit with fancy features I may never use. I still use drum VIs much the same way today: as sampled instruments (as opposed to compositional aids). previously released SDX libraries will only ever contain the amount of channels that they were released with.Toontrack has supplied my go-to drum instruments since Drumkit From Hell some 14 years ago. Regarding updating previous SDXs and surround : The S3 library contains all new sounds recorded at Galaxy Studios by George Massenburg.
Granted, I’m not expecting Toontrack products to stay the same forever, but doing a new product announcement right after a Superior Crossgrade promotion does feel a bit like a bait and switch. How much overlap is there between the SDX 2.0 expansions and the massive new sound library? Are any of the drums from the SDX2 expansions utilized in the new core library? Or is this a complete redesign on the kits altogether?Īlso, will there be any updates for the new sound libraries to take advantage of the new core library features such as the height mics? Or is that just for the SD 3.0 and forthcoming expansions?Ī bit of criticism: the timing of the upgrade is annoying since I just purchased a Superior Crossgrade a couple months ago during the Superior Summer promotion, along with a couple of discounted SDX expansions.
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