addictive drums vs ezdrummer vs superior drummer

Also, FWIW, I find SSD's cymbal samples to be lacking - they don't sound as lush or full as a professionally recorded drum track should sound, especially not the hi-hats. It's so bad that, at least for me, it kinda canceled out the quality of the drum kits, which are 'pre-mixed' to more or less sound like a finished, professionally produced drum track right out of the box. IMO, Steven Slate Drums has one of the most maddeningly unusable UIs I have ever experienced in music software. I'm thinking with SD3, I can eliminate this two-program jumping back and forth and just use SD3 for everything.I have Steven Slate Drums 5 and Superior Drummer 3, but primarily use Superior Drummer 3 (Trigger is something completely different - that's for replacing a previously recorded drum track with samples, rather than programming a drum track from scratch). With EZD you've only got 1 ambient track, with Chocolate Audio's you've got 4 room mics and then the individual kit mics. The room mics are really the only thing that keeps me doing it this way. I've used EZD2 for a while now and write with it, once I'm done writing the drum track, I open up Chocolate Audio's Black Album drums, import the MIDI in that, then bounce it into individual audio files, so I can have a separate track in Logic for every drum/room mic. In the context of writing/recording/mixing a song, it's minimal work and if you really pay close attention, you can get some really realistic sounding drum tracks.

With MIDI's I write on my own or have gotten somewhere else, it doesn't take very long to adjust the velocities to get them feeling 'right'. I have thousands of MIDI's saved on my hard drive and I can always tell when one isn't one of theirs, because every hit is at 128 already, anything I've gotten from ToonTrack has been a nice colorful display of varying velocities and they don't always sit directly on the grid. They're own MIDI's are quite dynamic regarding the velocities, at least they have been in the past.

Addictive drums vs ezdrummer vs superior drummer