SeriesToontrack Superior Drummer

There weren't any kind of compatibility issues , the program works on any platform either Windows XP, Windows Seven or MAC OS. The book provided with the program was quite good, well detailed , all the information that was relevant to the product itself was well explained there. General configuration and setup is straight forward , pretty amateur and easy to follow along. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE The software works very good and its stability is breath taking and quality of the sounds is pro. The functions and the performances are very nice , I think its great having a great drum set in your own daw , which is very helpful to set a certain groove without wasting much time. I've been using this product for about 4 months , but I've used in a lot of pop rock songs. OVERALL OPINION What I like most about it is how good and powerful are actually the kicks and snares , these two components of the drums make a huge difference in creating a certain groove with a certain effect , either one that's related to the velocity or panning. I also like how you can easily disable a certain part of the drums , a tom , a hihat , a snare , clap or kick , which is easy and great because you can use that in real time to arrange your groove in a certain distinct way. Without a doubt this is one of the top drums out there , the only downside for me , its the size , it weights way to much for me to afford , beside that everything is perfect, the quality , the features , the sounds , the effects , everything is on a high level. My opinion about the value of price is also very good , this product isn't very expensive , it's mainly for all kind of pockets . Knowing what I know , I would get this product if hdd size wouldn't be a problem.

The Metal Foundry SDX is an expansion library for Toontrack Superior Drummer 2. It comes on a set of DVDs to install. It takes a while to install because the sample library is huge, and the drums truly are deeply sampled. There are tons of velocity layers, and a ridiculous amount of 'bleed' samples. In practice I hardly ever use a lot of the 'bleed' samples, but I know a lot of people that use sampled drums that say the realism in sampled drums comes from things like mic 'bleed'. All this to say, you can install only the main portion of the library if you don't have much use for a lot of 'bleed' samples. This expansion library requires the SD2 main software. If you have any experience with SD2, then using the MF SDX is exactly the same. There really is no extra learning curve involved. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE These drum samples sound amazing. I am not a metal drummer, and I don't record any music that resembles metal. However, these drums sound so natural, they can be used for any style with the right post-processing, assuming you pick kit pieces to use that make sense. And yes, they sound great for metal too. Although I don't play metal music, I can definitely appreciate that metalheads are the most detail-oriented, technical, and perfection-obsessed musicians. I knew when I was purchasing this SDX, that if the drums were sampled by metalheads, every aspect of the sampling process would be agonized over with pain-staking detail. Sure enough, my expectations were confirmed. Well done Toontrack. OVERALL OPINION This is the cleanest, unprocessed, natural sounding drum library available. So many other libraries include basic eq/compression, or the samples or were deliberately recorded to tape prior to digitization. The raw samples in this library are definitely perceived as 'raw'. I own the other SDX libraries from Toontrack, and even a few EZX libraries. I own BFD2, Addictive Drums, NI Studio Drummer, Steven Slate Drums 4. This library sounds the most like standing in a studio room with a live drummer, with the drums sounding in their 'naked' form. I place this drum library on the opposite end of the spectrum of Steven Slate Drums, which comes plenty of 'radio-ready' drum samples available with a single mouse click. Metal Foundry is the exact opposite, drums in their purest form. This leaves the user with the complete control to shape the sound as they desire.