Superior Drummer 3

ragan check your emails:)

TT is discounting ez to $107 and then with the cross grade price it is less than buying sd3 alone but you already own ez right ?

@ martin then you can select the upgrade from sd2 and pay $209

Are there quality midi packs/grooves that are good for this?

First Impressions

Got SD3 today, very impressed with TT Product Manager app , very well thought out and powerful cross between a gui and almost a wizard as it assists with downloading installing

created an instrument track in my current session  instantiated sd3 and copied over midi track from the logic drummer track: worked fine.

sd3 seems like a beast so many features and elements, started demoing the Massenberg default kits: really struck by the naturalness of the sound and the cohesion of the kits

I took my laptop up to my gamer son’s room where he has his diy desktop that could probably hack Fort Knox and grabbed a hard wired net feed right off the router. We have, shall we say, deeply tailored the settings to our likings. I went from about 5 mbs to about 350: time for 40 gigs went from 6-7 hours to under 1:), kids these days !

The first 2 libraries really get you going and are less than 90 g total hardrive space.

If it's the stock BFD v3 sounds, these are better by a good deal. The London Sessions is BFD2, which are better samples....and there are some newer and third party libraries for it that are as good or better than SD3 unless you just dig arena rock. They "play" better, too--likely more levels of dynamics....and they have MONO outputs so you can not ghetto rig recording as audio by hard panning all the kick mics to one side and such like you have to do in Superior's engine.

I can (and have) set up a BFD2 drum sampler at 32 samples on a Pentium4 with whatever 64 levels of velocity switching. It's the app made for that workflow. On the most "rock" tune, on this new record, I had to resort to using BFD2 Air Studios rooms for the kick and snare in addition to the SD3 Core, which are SO much more polite.

On a positive note, was just fooling around with the tap to tempo function

it seems to default to a 2 bar pattern to your session tempo and as soon as you turn it on, click is playing and you can just use your mouse to trigger the parts you want in your notional pattern

once you have something close ,stop and it searched, I tried two example and the leading hits were spot on and actually better than my examples

you can then drag those loops down in to your song creator and go to town 

impressive software tool !

don't know but you are apparently using sd2 stand alone ?

if you instantiate sd3 in a channel the grooves and song your create are what the channel plays ?

Thanks kcat. So, let's say you get used to Song Creator, you've finished a drum track. Do you just leave it as is and get on with recording your other parts, or do you drag it into a Superior Drummer track in Logic, and then record to that?

So, in the same way the mixer works behind the scenes, the song creator does the same thing?

Do you see the individual drum parts in the Logic track too? I often double click on the midi and edit that way, changing velocity and deleting some hits, adding a few others.