

several, allowing you to pick and choose which sounds you want for a given project. You lose the ability to process the samples to your own desire, but you get a lot of tonal choices to make up for it, and TBH the ability to process the drums in SD2 isn't much help to me when they already sound the way they do out of the gate. If anyone could help me out that'd be great!ġ) Alot of people say Steven Slate is 'processed' right out of the box, whereas Superior Drummer isn't. Why is Superior Drummer worth the money? Surely you can only get one sound and genre from, or can you swap out drums etc?Ĥ) Lastly, which would you recommend for someone the does BOTH rock and metal? What exactly do you need to do to make Superior Drummer drums to be 'processed' like Steven Slate?Ģ) People also say Superior Drummer is more complex, is it really hard to learn?ģ) Superior Drummer apparently only has one drum kit, whereas Steven Slate has 100. Thanks!Superior drummer is much better in every aspect. You don't always need processing with superior drummer.

You may need to run it through a buss comp that's it. Sometimes you may need some slight eq depending on the song.įor rock or metal: Progressive foundry, Metal foundry, Metal Machinery are all great. The Rock Warehouse is very processed as are the Music City Superior Drums. All these are good for metal and rock as well. There isn't anything complicated with regards to superior drummer. It comes with a mixer and you adjust the levels much like you do with your DAW. You can insert effects and eq in the SD mixer. Superior drums are professional quality, SSD are more for a home studio. #Superior drummer vs addictive drums professional Addictive drums are better than SSD as well. Slate has better out of the box sounds for less$$$.īfd3, imo and from my research. Has more flexibility in terms of mixing but you will probably have to work with it more.Īddictive drums, is a real balance between slate and bfd 3. I haven't really had a chance to use superior drummer, I think it's basically on par with bfd3 though from the little bit that I've played with it, the examples I've listened to, and reviews.

You just have more options with bfd3 from what I gather.

I really like addictive drums, but I don't feel like they generally for well in the mix right out of the box. That said, they seem to fit better than bfd3. If they'd get rid of the Native instruments engine, or whatever it's is that really kind of ****s with the envelope, and introduce some real nice reverb, more velocities, some REAL compression or even being able to Slate is really awesome, it's just the articulation and control. Import your own plugins, they'd be in top of the game, in terms of metal and rock. You have to MAKE it sound more realistic than it is.
