What this means is it's tough to 'build' the sound of the kit from the overheads and/or the room mics.Ģ. When I say 'not centred' the dynamic range (peak minus RMS level) can be wildly different as between the left and right hand channels, so a simple tweak of the balance control doesn't work.

The kick and snare are generally not centred in either the overheads or the room mics.

There are a several major problems with SD and EZd.ġ. Similarly, if you want to produce and spend the time to heavily tweak your own drum sample sounds, you probably want Superior.I hope this helps other readers - I just spent the best part of a year figuring the below out! If you wish to play drums via a MIDI drum set, you probably want Superior over EZD. Superior drummer is a higher end, highly configurable and tunable virtual drum instrument. The sounds are pre-processed for the intention of quickly producing ready to use sounds, not really for the advanced producer acquainted with producing his or her own flavor of drum sounds. Integration with Mixcraft (Or other DAW's) isn't perfect, but there are pretty simple workarounds for most of what are comparatively minor snags.ĮZDrummer is for the user who wants to find a sound that is close, do minimal processing to the sounds and quickly create realistic sounding drum tracks. Black Friday and E-Monday seem to be the peak sale times for Toontracks stuff. MIDI packs are much better, but third party MIDI patterns you create yourself are useable and can be added to the EZD MIDI library if that's your thing.īeing patient and watching for sales makes both the virtual instrument and expansion packs far more attractive IMO. The expansion kits are a bit overpriced in my opinion. Yes some additional MIDI will probably eventually be of interest. Yeah you might want to invest in a few expansion kits for more sounds. Toontracks stuff I am more familiar with.Įase of use? EZDrummer hands down.

But that's just one stubborn old farts opinion. And based on my experience with Kontakt, personally I wouldn't likely touch it even if it sounded great and was free. Encouraging, but the major audio retailers seem to list it as 'no longer available' which is ominous. I can tell you it runs on (and requires) the Kontakt engine and for the last four years or so I have invited ANYONE to clearly explain to me how to use that platform without pulling out the last few hairs I have left and declared it is just not possible.Īnd comparing costs, lets see, NI lists it at $149 and compatible with the free Kontakt player. Well first off, I have to admit I have no experience with NI studio drummer.

Ezdrummer vs addictive drums