
350 vintage and classic drum machine sounds Playback in stereo or up to 11 channel surround systemsĪpprox. Recorded with an additional eleven separate room microphones set up in a surround configuration for a complete immersive experience In excess of 230 GB of raw, unprocessed sounds in 44.1 kHz/24 bit Welcome to the future of drum production. With Superior Drummer 3, you are in total control. Roots is unsurpassed in terms of dynamics, but unless you are doing a lot of super light touch jazzy stuff, SD3 core library will be fine.Building on the legacy of its predecessor, Superior Drummer 3 was redesigned from the ground up to introduce a completely new and improved workflow, countless added features and an unequalled amount of raw sound material. If you are desperate to lighten your wallet, I would advise Roots sticks over Custom & Vintage - the dynamics and room ambience are a lot better in Roots (remember that C&V is one of the first ever SDX libraries, and it lacks the velocity layers of later ones). You already have brushes, rods and mallets, so really the Roots packs won't add much unless you are seriously into jazz or you need a Decca tree mic setup. Just doing home recording singer/songwriter stuff, so not looking at this from a professional studio production perspective.įor singer/songwriter I would say that you will not want for anything with the SD3 library. I plan on getting SD3 upgrade, so my question is: given the extensive new libraries in SD3 and my tastes, are there any SDX packs still worth getting while on sale? I thought perhaps Custom & Vintage, or the Roots packs, but maybe that territory is well covered in the SD3 libraries? Ryan Adams, Counting Crows, Tom Petty, etc.) I already have Music City (for brushes) and Indiependent. Toontrack is selling SDX packs for 40% off this month.

Still I value the mixer's preset for quick mixing when jamming or to learn from other mixers.

It's hard to replace your favorite plugins with those though when you are used to how you like your kick with a certain plugin chain for exemple. Now you can get stellar results from a lot of small companies selling plugins for 30-50$. I agree they are not my favorite.Ĭoding has improved immensly and the knowledge is out there for coders to learn how to make the plugins shine. So they picked Sonalksis wich were the best bang for the buck back then.

Back then plugins were still very expensive and companies were rare. The plugins are much better in this version. Are the built-in effects good enough to make you wanna do all the mixes in the plugin? I'm not a huge fan of S2.0's plugins for various reasons but these new ones look pretty impressive. Do S2.0 SDX's sound any different in Superior 3? I would assume not but I figured maybe the new sound engine might make some sort of difference.Ģ.
