These tools aren't cheap, so I'm assuming not everyone tries them all. On the other hand, what percentage of the apocryphal 99% have tried Superior first and are still in love with SSD? I have no idea. Maybe I have horrible taste or technique. That doesn't mean that 99% of other people won't love SSD, or that it won't sound great buried in a mix, or that other people won't be able to live with hi-hat playability problems. I also had some odd stereo image artifacts as I played the hi-hat, and generally not great articulation. It doesn't sound bad, but it's not as good as Superior, IMO. Maybe it would be even better! I wanted to love it but unfortunately, for me, it is not up to snuff. I decided, based upon prior listening to the demos you mention, that the LE edition would be a great opportunity for me to try another VST for a very reasonable price. Shortly after my success with Superior, I found that SSD had a special offer going. Superior definitely has plenty of bugs, but it is very playable (for me) and has awesome sounds (for me). Most of my playability problems melted away, and I was now able to get proper hi-hat foot chick levels when using the Jazz EZX.
STEVEN SLATE DRUMS 4 VS EZDRUMMER UPGRADE
A lot of forum reading and question asking of my own made me decide to take a chance and upgrade EZD to Superior 2.1.1. Time passed and I played with BFD and Addictive demos, neither of which pulled me in completely. I was blown away by the sound, but didn't care for the hi-hat playability at all. Then some time went by, and I bought EZDrummer on a whim because it was cheap. I also saw a great video of him playing at a convention. Actually, yes, I watched many videos of Glen Sobel playing and thought it sounded great. Matt may not like the kits (did you like the demos on the site Matt?) and I'm sorry to hear this, but they are available for all to hear via our many demos which show the kits as default.
you can check out all the kits being played on Vdrums (by Glen Sobel) at our site to produce your own opinions. We have shipped SSD to many Vdrummers and the 99% have been extremely happy. I had quite a bit of fun playing with it. You could also consider Addictive Drums, which has a nice, relatively unlimited, demo/tryout mode. I found that Superior "plays" much better than EZD for e-kit use, and you can continue to use your EZD kits and EZXs. Still, IMO, if you do anything, save your pennies for a Superior Crossgrade. I don't know whether the sounds are better in the upgraded version. However, the full-on edition of SSD isn't all that different in price, IIRC. To be fair SSD LE is at a different price point than SD2.0. Nope, I was pulled right in, and ended up jamming for an additional half-hour (and staying up way past my bedtime). I feel that I could have much better spent the money on the New York Studios Vol2 SDX that Toontrack just released.Īfter the SSD session, I loaded up SD2.0 to see if I was being unfair.
Perhaps I need to spend more time tweaking, but I kind of feel like the basic sounds just aren't there for me. I did play around with the room ambiences, etc, but it didn't help enough. In my opinion, the kits just don't sound very good, and don't have as much subtlety as EZD or Superior's samples. I found not one kit that "pulled me in" and made me want to jam. My out-of-the-box experience was basically blah.
STEVEN SLATE DRUMS 4 VS EZDRUMMER FULL
Well, I just installed SSD LE, which I purchased using the discount, and after playing through all the kits, I have to say I'm hugely underwhelmed and kind of bummed (and glad I didn't pay full price, or buy the full-on version).