Post by drbill on Nov 30, 2019 15:42:02 GMT -6
Wait....don't answer that.... 
I was all set to pull the trigger on SD3 with Decades, Rock Foundry, Rock Warehouse, Southern Soul and UKPop libraries....
Then I listened quite a bit.
- Honestly, I don't think I'll use Decades more than occasionally, and even then, I'll be leaning towards real drums for that kind of schtick. Very cool jazzy stuff, but the more modern stuff didn't do much for me.
- Rock Warehouse....meh....Decent, not great. I think the NI stuff is just as good.
- Rock Foundry.....well, honestly, I was expecting more out of a Bob Rock produced piece. Maybe the demo's just don't do it justice.
- SD3 core library. There was some decent stuff in there, but I don't need or want the 11.1 immersive content, and the thought of wasting 300-500GB on my valuable SSD drives for the core + additional above libraries started to wear on me. Honestly, the core library gets slammed quite hard by owners, but out of the above libraries, I thought it was the most useable for me. But even then, not awe inspiring.
So.....
I bought EZ Drummer 2 to get my feet wet with ToonTrack and then added the Southern Soul and UK Pop libraries. All in for around $175 as opposed to pushing $900. (Now I can buy more hardware!! Yay!! LOL). Both the expansion libraries I can use in SD3 should I end up going there. If I decide to upgrade to SD3 later, the SD3 upgrade price + $89 BF sale price on EZD2 is actually less than the current price on SD3. So no loss there....
So....to all you Toontrack guru's.....Am I going to regret not going all the way to Superior Drummer 3?? Am I expecting too much? Are their demo's just not that great. Or am I too jaded....
Curious.
Will download over the weekend.
I was all set to pull the trigger on SD3 with Decades, Rock Foundry, Rock Warehouse, Southern Soul and UKPop libraries....
Then I listened quite a bit.
- Honestly, I don't think I'll use Decades more than occasionally, and even then, I'll be leaning towards real drums for that kind of schtick. Very cool jazzy stuff, but the more modern stuff didn't do much for me.
- Rock Warehouse....meh....Decent, not great. I think the NI stuff is just as good.
- Rock Foundry.....well, honestly, I was expecting more out of a Bob Rock produced piece. Maybe the demo's just don't do it justice.
- SD3 core library. There was some decent stuff in there, but I don't need or want the 11.1 immersive content, and the thought of wasting 300-500GB on my valuable SSD drives for the core + additional above libraries started to wear on me. Honestly, the core library gets slammed quite hard by owners, but out of the above libraries, I thought it was the most useable for me. But even then, not awe inspiring.
So.....
I bought EZ Drummer 2 to get my feet wet with ToonTrack and then added the Southern Soul and UK Pop libraries. All in for around $175 as opposed to pushing $900. (Now I can buy more hardware!! Yay!! LOL). Both the expansion libraries I can use in SD3 should I end up going there. If I decide to upgrade to SD3 later, the SD3 upgrade price + $89 BF sale price on EZD2 is actually less than the current price on SD3. So no loss there....
So....to all you Toontrack guru's.....Am I going to regret not going all the way to Superior Drummer 3?? Am I expecting too much? Are their demo's just not that great. Or am I too jaded....
Curious.
Will download over the weekend.
