The feature that allows you to do this is called “XDrums” and you could, for instance, take 2 of the snare drum options from above and put them on top of each other. I’ve found that it’s particularly useful to slightly change the velocities of the same notes played in rapid sequence (+/- 3) to make a groove sound less electronic and more realistic.įinally, you can change the number of triggered instruments through playing one and the same note on your MIDI device.
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Each sound of Superior Drummer’s library has been recorded at least 60 times at different volumes to give you the full range of MIDI velocities from 0 to 127.
Center, Edge, Rimshot, Sidestick, Rim Only, Muted, Flams, Roll, and Ruffs for the Snare Drum.To top off the huge variety of drum sounds inside Superior Drummer 2.0, each instrument has also been recorded when being hit in almost any possible way. This variety should cover everything from Metalcore to Film Music. This means you can choose from the following range: Looking at our snare drum choices above again, you’ll notice that some of them show “ALL” in brackets. The first option is to change the type of sticks that the drums should be played with. Now that you’ve made your choice in terms of instruments, you can zoom in and modify how a particular instrument is supposed to be played. So no matter if you want to create a drum track for Jazz or Metal – Superior Drummer has got your back. Plus: you can make your drum set literally as large as you want.You can purchase one of Toontrack’s sound library extensions for Superior Drummer 2.0 or, if you happen to own the previous version of Superior Drummer, you can use its sound library too. I think this is about as large a range as you can cover on a drum set! And even if you disagree, you still have options – albeit paid ones. To give you a taste of this variety, consider the range of snare drums: In my opinion, this looks sleek and is as straightforward as it gets.Īnd I capitalized CHOICE, because Superior Drummer 2.0 comes with no less than 52 drum instruments on board. Simply click on one of the rectangles on the cymbals / drums of the kit and you’ll see a dropdown menu with all instrument options for that particular element. Upon opening Superior Drummer 2.0, you’ll find yourself in the construct view which does exactly what it’s called after: it enables you to put together the drum set of your CHOICE. Using Superior Drummer 2.0: the Construct View Finally, Superior Drummer 2.0 runs on all the major DAWs (paid and free) such as Ableton, Logic, ProTools or Reaper. Your computer should also bring 2GB RAM to the table.
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Prerequisites: Running Superior Drummer 2.0Ĭonsidering that Superior Drummer 2.0 comes with a huge sound library, its system requirements are actually quite modest: the full sound library requires 20GB of hard disk space, but you can also opt for a trimmed-down version that uses only 4GB.Īpart from that, Superior Drummer 2.0 will work on Windows 7, 8 and 10 and also on Mac OS X 10.6 or higher. This helped me not to get lost in any of the rabbit holes that the host of features built into Superior Drummer 2.0 provide and I think it will be equally useful to you to actually see how you could go about producing awesome drum tracks without ever leaving your desk. I’ve constructed this review as though you were using Superior Drummer 2.0 yourself. In this review, I’ll argue that with respect to Superior Drummer 2.0 those things haven’t only been preserved but greatly enhanced. For Toontrack’s previous version, Superior Drummer (1.0), was the first drum rompler of its kind and spawned a whole industry of similar plugins such as Addictive Drums or Strike.Īnd while spawning an industry isn’t necessarily an indicator of quality, it shows that Toontrack had done some things right with Superior Drummer (1.0). One could say that with the release of Superior Drummer 2.0 – virtual drum instrument – the godfather has returned.
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