We Test The New Steven Slate Drums 5 Drum Sampler In A Real World Recording Session This package is not going to bring your computer to it’s knees every time you swap kits of change cymbals.” But hey, you would not book Lars Ulrich of Metallica to play drums on your traditional Jazz album, so who would you ask a sample set that is so obviously built to rock to do it either?Īs I mentioned before CPU load and RAM usage with SSD 5 are very good. It sounds great but it might be nice to be able to dial that back a little more. Even the Au Natural kit, which I was hoping would be totally unprocessed felt quite compressed. Just pulling the fader back is not going to change the fact that all the SSD 5 drums are very up front even when played back at a lower dynamic (MIDI note on level).
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There might be a time when you don’t want the crack of the Snare drum to leap out and smack you around the face on beats 2 and 4. For my tastes however I found all the kits to be a little over processed. Right out of the gate the drums sound big and powerful and in a Rock or Metal track they are going to sit in just fine after a little tweaking. “If you want a big fat drum sound fast then Slate SSD 5 is not going to disappoint you. James Ivey took the Slate SSD5 for a spin and this is what he said. Innovative, flexible and hindered only slightly by an overly laborious interface, MODO Drum impresses with its technology and sounds fantastic. These can only be dragged out as MIDI files, however, not edited within MODO Drum at all. The mixer features an extensive menu of T-RackS- and AmpliTube-sourced effects, and you also get just shy of 1500 grooves in the usual styles (rock, pop, jazz, soul, etc) with which to trigger the kits. The individual drums and cymbals of the ten included kits are freely mix-and-matchable, and the synthesis angle comes into play in the highly detailed real-time component editing – everything from the shell dimensions (24x28” kick drum, anyone?) and bearing edge profile, to drumstick and beater type, and left/right-hand stroke positions.
The follow-up to the superb MODO Bass combines ‘modal synthesis’ and sampling for the best of both worlds: the punch and clarity of samples married to the adaptability of physical modelling synthesis. In terms of playability, it just doesn’t get any better than this for e-drummers and you can even use it for drum replacement thanks to the brilliant machine learning-driven Tracker system.Ī huge range of stellar SDX and EZX add-on kits is available, too, and it all adds up to the biggest, baddest, most extravagant virtual drum platform money can buy.įull Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 review Toontrack EZdrummer 2 From comprehensive editing and customisation of the kit itself, to sequencing (a ton of grooves is included), big-console-style mixing and bleed control, and processing with a wealth of top-quality effects, it’s like a mini DAW for drums, running standalone or as a plugin. Representing the current state-of-the art in sample-based percussion, Superior Drummer 3 not only ships with a ridiculous 230GB of massively multisampled tubs and metalwork in up to 11-channel surround (recorded by engineering demigod George Massenburg, no less), but also furnishes you with literally everything required to produce mix-ready beats from start to finish.
All you need is a great plugin with which to do it – read on… Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 While guitars, strings, winds and other more nuanced, tonally sensitive instruments inevitably involve some degree of creative compromise in the pursuit of authentic results, the relative simplicity of the drum kit makes it easy to realise utterly convincing drum tracks in the virtual space. The last is only of direct relevance to actual drummers, of course, but also reflects the overall depth of multisampling involved. Our selection criteria saw us focusing on the quality of each contender’s sample bank and included MIDI grooves, tweakability of individual drums and cymbals, mixing and processing features, and e-drum playability. In this round-up, we’ll look at what we consider to be five of the very best options on the market, across a range of price points and complexity levels. Today’s producer looking to create ‘acoustic’ drum tracks entirely in the box is truly spoilt for choice when it comes to sound sources, with countless impressive sampled-based instruments vying for their attention and cash.
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