This may perhaps be of some use other than working around the limitations of EZD2. It is perfect in situations you need a small, punchy snare sound.
Addictive drums 2 vs ezdrummer 2 series#
However, I've almost completed writing a TCL script which will do bulk MIDI file processing, recursively across a folder hierarchy, transposing any arbitrary set of notes to new values, writing the modified MIDI files back out to an identical hierarchy in a user-defined location. This Pearl Masterworks Series Piccolo Snare has smaller dimensions and higher pitch than many of the other snare drums available for Addictive Drums 2. No idea what BFD3 is like these days but the original developer has I believe, sold out to one of the box shifters, so I would be nervous of the future of it. I recently sold on my Addictive Drums products & dumped BFD at BFD2. If I'd known beforehand about the inability to re-map kit pieces (more fool me for not doing my research properly), I would have not touched it. I started out with EZDrummer & then bought the original Superior Drummer, so I have a long history with them. As the MIDI files themselves are not changing, this points to a BUG in the EZD2 software. Addictive drums 2 provide a rawer, unprocessed sound. sometimes they play in correct time, sometimes in double time). While EZdrummer 2 goes for a more beginner-friendly approach with their pre-processed tune of the drum sounds, Addictive drums 2 gives you more freedom of customizability and provides a more raw sounding experience to you. I've also noticed some unusual behaviour in EZD2, for example, bringing 3rd-party MIDI files (from oddgroooves in my case) into the song-creator pane can sometimes cause them to play at double-time, depending upon the order in which MIDI files are dragged in (i.e. I believe that this is the only drum sample player in the known universe which does not offer this functionality (Toontrack indicates that this is only available in Superior Drummer, of the products they offer). I run EZDrummer 2 and also have the pop/punk expansion that John Feldmann. Similarly, if you want to produce and spend the time to heavily tweak your own drum sample sounds, you probably want Superior.I think it's worth mentioning that EZDrummer2 (AKA 'Inferior Drummer' by me) does not allow remapping of the MIDI notes assigned to kit pieces. Anyone have any opinions on which one is best I hope to get an electric kit to trigger the vst through midi. If you wish to play drums via a MIDI drum set, you probably want Superior over EZD.
I was kinda holding out until Superior 2.0 came out to make my final decision on a virtual drummer but Id like some feedback RE: Session Drums as well. Ive been very impressed with these types of plugins. Superior drummer is a higher end, highly configurable and tunable virtual drum instrument. Ive yet to purchase any virtual drummers, but AD, EZD and Superior Drums 2.0 all seem like great candidates. 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. Toontrack’s EZdrummer 2 is a powerful VST that is simple to use and creates great-sounding drums. 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.
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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.
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